Cancer specialist Richard Van Etten, MD, PhD, has received a $2.7-million grant from the National Institutes for Health to continue his research into understanding and exploiting a genetic mutation that may be a key to treating a common and aggressive form of leukemia. “B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a cancer…
Renee Montague had all but given up hope for recovering her vision. In seven years, Montague had endured four invasive eye surgeries, worn 12 sets of contact lenses and consulted a number of specialists in a fruitless search to regain her sight. “I was at the end of my rope…
UCI Health invites the public to learn about the latest innovations in surgical kidney disease at 7 p.m., April 20 at the Newport Beach Public Library. Dr. Jaime Landman, chair of the Department of Urology and founder of the UCI Health Ablative Oncology Center, is an expert in diseases and…
UCI Health is continuing to expand the reach of academic medicine in Orange County with new specialty care offices now open in Tustin. This site offers patients access to world-class clinical services, right in their own community. “We are very excited to bring the expertise we’re known for as a…
Michael Moeller had suffered for 10 months with debilitating diarrhea. Finally, after only one dose and one day, he knew he was over it. The treatment was not a new or stronger or different combination of antibiotics, but a fecal microbiota transplant, or FMT, which involves placing the stool of…
IN THE NEWS: Some of the conventional “wisdom” regarding our health may or may not be true after all. UCI Health ophthalmologist Dr. Wade Crow was one of the experts consulted by The Orange County Register for an article that separates fact from fiction. Is it true that reading in…
A newly developed website provides parents and children with individualized information and support — based on factors like coping style and levels of worry and fear — to help lower anxiety before outpatient surgery in children, according to a pair of articles in the April issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia…
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