When actress Angelina Jolie announced that she was waging a preemptive war on cancer, she also started a national conversation about the “faulty” gene that put her at high risk…
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Summer means trips to the beach and Independence Day fireworks. The staff at UCI Health has a few tips to keep you and your children out of harm’s way and…
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Two UC Irvine research groups have received $2.27 million to develop innovative methods of treating and possibly curing type 1 diabetes. JDRF, formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, awarded one…
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Lan Zentil was a poster woman for healthy living. The 38-year-old filled her spare time with rock climbing, tennis and stand-up paddle boarding in the surf that laps her hometown…
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What’s the formula for a healthy life? Your ten steps to better living start here: 1. Keep moving — Even if you’ve been a couch potato for years, it’s never…
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Jorge Partida was only 23 when he sat in an exam room at UC Irvine Medical Center and listened — incredulous — as the physician explained the numbness in his…
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In the media: The syndicated advice columnist Dear Abby shines a light today on the problem of elder abuse by publishing a letter from Mary Twomey of UCI Health Center…
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UCI Health and Angels Baseball are partnering in a series of blood drives at Angel Stadium this summer to increase the supply for people in need at Orange County’s only…
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With $10 million in new federal funding, UC Irvine researchers will study how maternal signals and care before and after birth may increase an infant’s vulnerability to adolescent cognitive and…
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Patients with advanced, recurrent, or persistent cervical cancer that was not curable with standard treatment who received the drug bevacizumab (Avastin) lived 3.7 months longer than patients who did not…
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