Dr. Leslie Randall, assistant professor of gynecologic oncology, will appear this week on Healthy OC to discuss ovarian cancer awareness, treatment and research. Healthy OC airs on PBS SoCal, formerly known as KOCE-50. The interview will be broadcast during the Real Orange news program at 5:30 p.m. and 11 p.m…
Philippe Caupain puts the Belgian in Belgian waffle. The Brussels native is the seasoned chef behind the crisp and yeasty waffles that have been selling like hotcakes since his restaurant, Bruxie, opened in Old Towne Orange in November 2010. That was a sweet finish to an otherwise dire year. Just…
In its ongoing effort to foster economic growth through innovation, UC Irvine is establishing a new technology company incubator and reaching out to industry in novel ways. The successful 2010 launch of TechPortal, a business/technology incubator in UC Irvine’s California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology that houses five UC…
UPDATE: Listen to the KPCC interview about teen driving safety › +++ Dr. Bharath Chakravarthy is scheduled to appear on KPCC’s Patt Morrison show at approximately 2:05 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 16 to discuss teen driving safety. Chakravarthy, associate director of UC Irvine’s Center for Trauma and Injury Prevention Research…
IN THE NEWS: An ABC News report about Michigan’s attempts to curb childhood obesity cited UC Irvine pediatrician Dr. Dan Cooper, who questioned whether the effort’s reliance on the body mass index as a measure of obesity is appropriate. “BMI is a very poor tracking mechanism for a child, because…
FEATURE: Dr. Robert E. Bristow, director of gynecologic oncology services for UCI Health, has medicine in his blood. His father was the first African American president of the American Medical Association and a trailblazer in developing the field of occupation health. Bristow is blazing his own trail as a national…
Citing the UC Irvine School of Medicine's award-winning Program in Geriatrics, the U.S. Administration on Aging has designated the university as the National Center on Elder Abuse, a clearinghouse for practical information supporting federal, state and local efforts to prevent, identify and effectively respond to elder abuse. The agency will…
RESEARCH: Aging is associated with progressive immunodeficiency (weakness of the immune system) that makes seniors more susceptible to infections and cancer. Volunteers are needed to participate in research that is aimed to study the reasons for such a decline in the immune system in the elderly. Dr. Sudhir Gupta, Chief…
IN THE NEWS: National Public Radio in Boston interviewed Dr. Ninh T. Nguyen about his study Trends in Bariatric Surgery, 2003−2008. Nguyen is the chief of the division of gastrointestinal surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center. The story questions why, if Americans continue to gain weight in this obesity epidemic…
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