David Castañeda had grown used to the idea of dodging bullets in his 19 years as a policeman. But the disaster he dodged when he suffered a stroke in 2013 has even his stroke specialists at UCI Health marveling at his recovery. “Hearing that makes me feel really lucky,” Castañeda…
UCI Health is pleased to offer more Orange County residents access to highly trained, world-class digestive disease specialists with the opening of the UCI Health Digestive Disease Center – Newport. “UCI Health has long been a regional resource for complex and tertiary digestive disease care, using advanced technology in ways…
IN THE NEWS: Terry A. Belmont, CEO of UC Irvine Medical Center and Dr. Richard Van Etten, director of UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, will serve as co-chairmen of the California Southland Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s 2015 Orange County Light the Night® Walk, the society's…
UCI Health invites the public to learn more about the impact of advanced technology on medicine, including diagnosis, treatment and education, on Monday, May 18 at 7 p.m. at the Newport Beach Public Library. The distinguished panelists are Dr. Christian Fox, professor of emergency medicine and assistant dean of student…
IN THE NEWS: To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Orange County Register honored six “Inspiring Moms.” A UCI Health infectious disease expert and mother of two, Dr. Susan Huang, was recognized for her achievement in establishing a new standard of care to prevent the spread of MRSA infections in health care…
UCI Health gives Angels fans what they want this Saturday – tickets to future games for all donors to the blood bank for Orange County’s only Level 1 Trauma Center. UC Irvine Medical Center needs nearly 1,000 units of blood each month – equivalent to the total blood volume of…
A first-of-its-kind stem cell-based treatment for retinitis pigmentosa developed by UC Irvine’s Dr. Henry Klassen, Dr. Jing Yang and colleagues has received consent from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for use in a clinical trial. A startup co-founded by Klassen and Yang to commercialize the therapy, jCyte Inc., will…
IN THE NEWS: Despite test results and professional opinions from two other hospitals and a rehabilitation center, Ann Kaiser still strongly believed that her husband Marc could be revived from the coma he had been in for six-and-a-half months. She knew Marc’s recovery and rehabilitation would take time, but the…
IN THE NEWS: The future of surgery is limited, according to Dr. Jaime Landman, professor and chair, Department of Urology, UC Irvine. Driven by rapid advances in fusion, 3-D printing and robotics, the number of times patients will need invasive surgery will be significantly reduced. According to Landman, innovations are…
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