Irvine, Calif. — UC Irvine Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine researchers report that regular electroacupuncture treatment can lower hypertension by increasing the release of a kind of opioid in…
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As a young medical student, Dr. Erik D. Barton was intrigued by emergency room rotations and the challenge of determining patients’ diagnoses when they arrived with various symptoms. Today, Barton…
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The UCI Health Division of Hematology-Oncology has again been recognized by the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, for its high-quality cancer care....
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About five years ago Kathy Halsey, a school administrator, decided she had to do something about the nagging chronic heartburn and reflux that had plagued her for years. “The burning…
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Meg Newton, 62, was on an evening stroll one day last November with her husband, Skip, when she turned to him with words that now seem prescient. For weeks she…
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When Elaine Cain and her husband Al moved to Orange County from Michigan five years ago, their goal was to be close to family. They had no idea the move…
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Beth Lynn Koehler and Frank Carri met in community college. They married in 1967, then divorced in 1973. But they were connected for a lifetime. “Even after we divorced, we’d…
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The National MS Society’s Partners in MS Care program has again recognized UCI Health as a provider of exceptional and innovative patient care by recertifying it as an official Center…
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Health experts recommend that almost everyone age 6 months or older receive a flu vaccine, preferably in the fall before the start of the season. However, for kids that may…
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The UCI Health Bariatric Surgery Services has earned renewed accreditation in the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program, conferred by the American College of Surgeon and American…
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