A new study published in JAMA Network saw a reduction of COVID-19 infection rates among healthcare personnel at UCI Health after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. By mid-April, there were 133 million…
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UCI Health is now offering south Orange County residents access to the clinical expertise and advanced care of the county’s only academic health system with the opening of UCI Health…
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UCI Medical Center’s inpatient acute care surgery units have earned the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) in recognition of its exceptional patient care…
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UCI infectious disease expert Philip Felgner, PhD, is one of seven scholars to win Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in recognition of their contributions to…
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The nation is in the midst of a blood shortage and the UCI Blood Donor Center is in dire need of blood donations, especially Type ‘O,’ as shortages are hitting health…
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UCI Medical Center recently received national recognition for excellence in caring for older hospitalized patients. The medical center's Inpatient Care Unit received the Age-Friendly Health System — Committed to Care…
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With its current gift, longtime UCI Health benefactors, the Chao family, have committed $50 million since 1995 to UCI Health toward advancing cancer care in Orange County and beyond. The…
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UCI Health urologists have tested a new laser technology capable of reducing even large kidney stones to dust that can be suctioned or flushed from the body. The super-pulsed thulium…
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With a COVID-19 vaccine now approved for children ages 12 to 15, parents should get their kids vaccinated, said UCI Health pediatric infectious disease expert Coleen Cunningham, MD. “As a pediatrician…
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UCI Health has received a 14th consecutive “A” grade in The Leapfrog Group’s biannual Hospital Safety Grade, which rates how well hospitals protect patients from errors, injuries and infections. The spring…
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Elizabeth Vayssie is thriving despite the challenges of becoming Orange County’s first recipient of an implanted heart pump while a pandemic was underway. Today she is celebrating the one-year anniversary of receiving…
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A $5 million gift to the University of California, Irvine from Linda and Mike Mussallem will support integrative cardiology care, training and research in the Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute…
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UCI Health has launched an outpatient treatment program to address prolonged COVID-19 symptoms and complications experienced by an estimated 10% to 30% of people long after their initial illness. People…
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UCI Health neuromuscular disorder researchers have been awarded a prestigious $4.2 million grant to study a little understood muscle disorder in aging adults that causes asymmetric muscle weakness and severe disability.…
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Registration is open for the fifth annual UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge — a virtual ride, run, walk event to raise awareness and funds for promising cancer research at the UCI Chao Family…
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Vaccines are here, but as COVID-19 cases continue and variants spread, researchers need easy access to a wide variety of data to better understand the disease. University of California hospitals,…
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UC Irvine researchers have developed a breakthrough device that prevents injury when kidney stones are treated through the ureter. In a clinical study of 200 kidney stone patients, the force-sensor…
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A new UCI Health study reinforces the principle that “practice makes perfect” when it comes to complex gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Patients whose procedures for gastrointestinal malignancies were performed at a…
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Where a woman calls home may affect whether she receives the high-quality standard of care necessary to beat ovarian cancer, the fifth most common cause of cancer death among U.S.…
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UCI Health gerontology specialists, in partnership with Alzheimer’s Orange County (AlzOC), have developed a new website for health practitioners to improve the care they provide to their patients diagnosed with…
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