Health

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UCI-led study links cholera epidemic in Yemen to conflict-related air raid severity

A study led by UCI has discovered a significant link between conflict, as measured by air raid severity, and the incidence of cholera in Yemen between 2016 and 2019. During that time, Yemen was facing recorded history’s largest cholera outbreak. The findings, published online today in The Lancet Global Health, show that after adjusting for […]

Jun Wu, Ph.D., UCI professor of environmental and occupational health

UC Irvine-led study links long-term air pollution exposure to postpartum depression in SoCal

Higher suicide risk for moms; infants may develop cognitive, emotional or other impairments

Leigh Turner, UCI Professor of Public Health

UC Irvine study exposes risks of direct-to-consumer stem cell, exosome COVID-19 therapy ads

More than 75 percent of clinics operated by these businesses are in U.S. and Mexico

Jonathan Watanabe, UCI professor of clinical pharmacy.

UC Irvine study reveals surge in use of weight loss-linked drugs in California health system

Access, supply and cost issues for GLP-1 agonists must be addressed as more growth projected

Baruch D. Kupperman, director of the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute

A decade of visionary achievement

UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute celebrates its 10th anniversary

Jessica Ortiz wearing a cap and gown, while holding a Mexican flag across her back as she walks away from the camera.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Campuswide stories and resources highlight the commitment to support a Latino-thriving community at UCI

Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine cites UCI’s Philip Felgner

Vaccine Research & Development Center director noted for contribution to mRNA vaccines

A symbol of shared success

For future pharmacist Sakhi Patel, her white coat ‘signifies how the struggles of my family have come to fruition’

Dr. Federico Vaca

Dr. Federico Vaca to lead Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

UC Irvine physician-scholar is lauded for research on traffic crash injuries, prevention

NIH funds UC Irvine project to measure the severity of heart valve backflow

Support originated by Congressman who lost his wife to sudden cardiac death