UCI Health has received a fifth consecutive “A” in The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The fall 2016…
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Noticias
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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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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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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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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Orange County philanthropists Sue and Ralph Stern have received UCI Health’s highest honor, the UCI Health Hero Award, in recognition of their transformational impact on healthcare in the community. The…
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UCI Health invites the public to learn more about the latest advances in diagnosis, treatment options and research findings from world-renown experts on a wide variety of health issues, diseases…
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The Tustin Library will host a series of talks with UCI Health specialists through November about topics such as thyroid health and the epidemic of over-diagnosis of thyroid cancer, latest therapies for hip and…
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IN THE NEWS: The Wall Street Journal article “The Ultimate Battle Against MRSA” highlights the work of UCI Health infectious disease expert Dr. Susan Huang and her research into combating…
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The UCI Health Department of Emergency Medicine is pleased to announce that it will begin providing emergency room services at Catalina Island Medical Center in Avalon starting Sept. 1, 2016.…
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The UCI Health H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center (CDDC) is undergoing a complete renovation and expansion at the UC Irvine Medical Center campus in Orange. When the CDDC building…
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Tom Arai has always lived an active, healthy life. The 65-year-old former commercial real estate agent and Yorba Linda resident is especially fond of cycling. For 25 years, he made…
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IN THE NEWS: UCI Health neurosurgeon Dr. Sumeet Vadera discusses silent or hidden symptoms of brain tumors for a recent Reader’s Digest article: “Patients suffering from a brain tumor may…
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A research paper written by UCI Health Heart Disease Prevention Program researchers was chosen by Hypertension as the top 2015 paper in the category of population science. The American Heart Association journal…
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