Health

Shannon Dargenzio and her 230-pound English mastiff, Shera

Her next-best friend is a robot

Shannon Dargenzio says she is grateful UC Irvine Medical Center surgeons were able to remove a benign thyroid tumor without leaving a scar.

Mikael Nilsson

Taking the ‘waste’ out of nuclear waste

While spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up by the ton across the United States, engineering professor Mikael Nilsson says the solution is clear: recycle it at the commercial nuclear power plants that create it.

Karen Rook

Shedding light on loneliness

Professor Karen Rook studies relationships and how they affect one’s health and happiness. Her research has shed light on the psychological toll of loneliness on the elderly.

Tracy Cueto explains to students

Nursing science program readies for future of healthcare

UCI’s growing program supports a future in which they’re full partners in healthcare reform.

Zuzanna Siwy

‘Zapping’ viruses can speed identification, physicist finds

Physicist Zuzanna Siwy is working on faster identification of viruses to enable earlier treatment.

MS patient Shirley Cero jokes with nurse Monica Shim and her caregiver Elsa Palomino

Continuing UCI’s legacy of MS research, care

The new Multiple Sclerosis Research Center aims to continue UCI’s legacy of outstanding MS research and care andhas gathered more than two dozen UCI experts to advance novel methods of fighting the chronic neurologic disease.

Tom Tiffany

UC Irvine specialists avert amputation

Doctors at UC Irvine Medical Center save man’s leg after blood clots block circulation.

Greg Hickok

Studying what happens when words fail

With renewed NIH funding, cognitive scientist Greg Hickok studies the neural origins of speech disorders.

Dr. Dawn M. Lombardo

Doctor fights the No. 1 killer of women

Dr. Dawn M. Lombardo directs a UC Irvine Medical Center program to combat cardiovascular disease through research, treatment and education. She’s especially interested in improving care for women.

Celia Goulding

Another iron in the fire against TB

UC researchers have found a possible alternate path for TB to spread in the human body.