If you were among the 1 million people annually who need an angioplasty to open a blocked artery, would you choose a procedure that required you to lie still for up to four hours and limit your activities for at least a week and that carried a risk of internal…
UCI Health physicians are among the recipients of the University of California Center for Health Quality & Innovation’s inaugural round of grants. Critical care specialist Dr. Elizabeth Turner was awarded $50,000 to—along with Dr. Chris Fox and Dr. Mark Rosen—implement an educational program on the bedside use of handheld ultrasound…
UCI Health is recruiting pregnant women to participate in a research study on the reasons for premature birth. "It’s critical to examine the causes of preterm birth in women who have never carried a pregnancy to term,” says Dr. Deborah A. Wing, professor and director of maternal-fetal medicine in UC…
If you were among the 1 million people annually who need an angioplasty to open a blocked artery, would you choose a procedure that required you to lie still for up to four hours and limit your activities for at least a week and that carried a risk of internal…
N THE NEWS: Dr. Stephen Feig discussed the findings of a new study of the long-term benefits of mammography with the Orange County Register. The Swedish study, which was posted online Tuesday at the journal Radiology, reviewed breast screening results over nearly 30 years. This is critical, because breast cancer…
UC Irvine and French researchers have identified a central switch responsible for the transformation of healthy brain cells into epileptic ones, opening the way to both treat and prevent temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy affects 1 to 2 percent of the world's population, and TLE is the most common form of…
IN THE NEWS: Dr. Charles Vega discusses the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s PRIME-LC program with the online Voice of Orange County. Vega talks about how the program trains young doctors to better serve underrepresented communities. Read the full article ›
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, Donald Bren Professor and chair of pharmacology, has been selected as an external member of the Max Planck Society, one of the world's most prestigious scientific groups. The society comprises some 80 German institutes conducting basic research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and arts and…
UC Irvine surgeon Dr. Michael J. Stamos and colleagues report that patients who undergo minimally invasive laparascopic colorectal surgery were less likely to suffer from a type of blood clot called deep vein thrombosis than those undergoing traditional open surgery. This type of surgery was also associated with shorter hospital…
IN THE NEWS: The Los Angeles Times reports that weight-loss surgery is safe and effective for most people, but complications do occur, according to a study presented by Dr. Ninh T. Nguyen at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery. The presentation cited the top…
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