Health Sciences

W.M. Keck Foundation awards $1 million to UCI team to study cartilage formation

Cross-disciplinary researchers will explore applications in regenerative medicine

Marcela Dos Santos

Marcela Dos Santos looks inside to find wellness

The nursing DNP student wants to break down prejudice about mental health

Professor of public health gets grant to study in utero effects on male and female lifespans

Tim Bruckner, Ph.D., professor of health, society and behavior in the Program in Public Health, has been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the differences in male and female lifespans. According to health data, men do not live as long as women, and Bruckner and his team will […]

Sue Gross (left), with Adey Nyamathi

Sue J. Gross Foundation $3 million gift to UCI will advance nursing training, education

Funding will support construction of simulation center, scholarship for doctoral students

UCI-led study offers framework for including racism’s health effects in pharmacy curricula

Racism has been declared a national public health crisis by the American Public Health Association. With the minority population in the U.S. being the fastest-growing demographic, experts say, it’s essential that healthcare professionals recognize the social determinants of health among racial and ethnic minorities. Education and training, they say, should begin in school so that […]

UCI breaks ground on new hospital, medical complex in Irvine

New facility on campus will be next chapter of healthcare in Orange County

Ralph and Sue Stern gift to support cancer center at new UCI hospital in Irvine

Longtime UCI donors’ latest gift adds to legacy of expanding lifesaving care

Dr. Steve Goldstein

UCI is among founding members of national coalition to improve clinical trials

ACT@POC aims to boost efficiency, accessibility and participant diversity to benefit patients

UCI team develops recommended practices for study of adverse drug events using EHRs

UCI researchers have developed recommended practices for evaluating evidence generated by adverse drug event studies that use electronic health record databases. Their findings are published online in the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. The availability of large EHR databases offers opportunities for big data analytics and machine learning to be applied in […]

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UCI Podcast: Nurses’ trauma and the two fronts of the war against COVID-19

Candace Burton’s interviews with nurses reveal how an unrelenting pandemic is inflicting a mental health crisis