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IN THE NEWS: The New York Times examined whether medicine is any closer to understanding the boundary between being awake and alert and being unconscious: Scientists and doctors certainly know…

If you are over 50 or have a family history of colon cancer, be sure to watch a special CBS HealthWatch webcast on March 28 featuring UC Irvine’s Dr. Michael…

By analyzing the hundreds of metabolic products present in the liver, researchers with the UC Irvine Center for Epigenetics & Metabolism have discovered that circadian rhythms—our own body clock—greatly control…

Two-time cancer survivor Billy Pine is proud to say that he has almost never missed his half-mile daily swim since he began a rigorous six-month course of chemotherapy for colon…

In three short years, high-energy entrepreneur Angelo Giuliano, 31, has built his mobile electronic billboard business into a thriving enterprise with a lock on every major Southern California entertainment venue…

Binh Phan celebrated the wedding of her dreams and now the 25-year-old and her husband are buying their first home. Confident that she has beaten back an aggressive breast cancer…

UC Irvine researchers have discovered how salmonella, a bacterium found in contaminated raw foods that causes major gastrointestinal distress in humans, thrives in the digestive tract despite the immune system’s…

IN THE NEWS: Nathan Wong, PhD, director of UC Irvine’s Heart Disease Prevention Program, criticized a recent editorial in a letter to the Orange County Register (fifth item): The recent…

Not sure when to get a colonoscopy? Will it hurt? March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and it’s a good time to talk to your primary care doctor about…

IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register took note of the memorial Dr. Marianne Cinat’s family, friends and colleagues held at UC Irvine Medical Center last week: UC Irvine has…