Donors who give blood at one of the season’s final two UC Irvine Healthcare/Angels Baseball blood drives on Aug. 30 and Sept. 6 at Angel Stadium will receive vouchers for four tickets to a game in September. Vouchers can be exchanged at the stadium box office for four tickets (instead of two) valid on one [...]
RESEARCH: Aging is associated with progressive immunodeficiency (weakness of the immune system) that makes seniors more susceptible to infections and cancer. Volunteers are needed to participate in research that is aimed to study the reasons for such a decline in the immune system in the elderly. Dr. Sudhir Gupta, Chief of Immunology in the Department [...]
IN THE NEWS: A new study from researchers at UC Irvine, indicates that the use of central catheters caused more than half of the clots occurred occurred patients after surgery, according to the Los Angeles Times. The study, conducted by Drs. Brian R. Smith, Sidney Diniz, Michael Stamos and Ninh T. Nguyen, analyzed 2,189 surgeries [...]
REASEARCH: UC Irvine neurologist Neal Hermanowicz, M.D., is recruiting subjects for two studies related to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Hermanowicz is director of the UC Irvine Movement Disorders Program. The first study seeks to determine if Cogane, a drug not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is safe and effective [...]
IN THE NEWS: The iPad was introduced in April of last year and UCI put together an education program – the iMedEd Initiative – centered around the tablet just a few months after launch. Exactly one year ago the university handed 104 iPads to the incoming medical students at the white coat ceremony, when the [...]
IN THE NEWS: The arms of a Da Vinci robotic system hummed under green surgical lights in the UCI Medical Center basement. Tiny computer-assisted tools, designed for advance laparoscopic surgery, guided a suture through tiny metal loops quickly and with precision. The procedure on Thursday was a timed exercise meant to evaluate the first-time operator’s [...]
IN THE NEWS: Survival for brain-cancer patients treated with chemotherapy comes with a dark side: “chemobrain,” the debilitating loss of memory and mental function that often follows, according to an article in the Orange County Register. Now, scientists at the UC Irvine Medical Center are preparing a new weapon that could one day clear the [...]
IN THE NEWS: A USA Today article examining the psychological effect of 9/11 cited findings by UC Irvine psychologist Roxane Cohen Silver, who has studied the emotional and physical effects of traumatic exposure for decades. “Sept. 11 was really the first event in the United States of a national scale that we could explore these [...]