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A man smokes an electronic cigarette on a gray background, blowing a stream of smoke

Early study results point to heating element in vaping and e-cig devices as cause for serious lung injuries

Nicotine, THC or Vitamin E oil may not be the primary factor in e-cig or vaping product use-associated lung injury

Dania Maldonado, a student in UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community

Paying it forward through preventive care

First-gen medical student – a fellowship recipient – aims to help the underserved avoid chronic diseases

Anthem, UCI will investigate how digital tools can aid asthma management

Research study in collaboration with Apple Watch to help improve clinical outcomes

Women with diabetes and high levels of coronary artery calcium at greater risk of death than men

UCI, Cedars-Sinai study is a call-to-action for more aggressive risk factor management

UCI MIND awarded $14.4 million NIH grant to continue critical Alzheimer’s disease research, education

UCI MIND, the Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders at UCI, has been awarded a $14.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health, to sustain critical research and education as Orange County’s only Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The NIA funds only 32 of these centers at […]

UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge goes virtual for 2020

Event adds eight weeks of fitness challenges, health webinars and wellness courses

Dr. Matthew Boone, associate dean of clinical affairs and professor of medicine, who was hired last fall to recruit “the best and the brightest” new physicians.

The primary care push

UCI Health, best known for its stellar specialists, plans to hire 60 more doctors devoted to internal, family and geriatric medicine over the next five years

Thomas Milner, the new director of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

Inventive medicine

Optics innovator Thomas Milner is back at UCI as director of the Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic

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UCI Podcast: In the ER with Dr. Chris Fox

Chair of emergency medicine describes the toll COVID-19 is taking on the ER

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UCI Podcast: How the LEAD-ABC program gives black medical students a ‘powerful’ voice

This August, 12 black first-year medical school students will arrive at UCI — the most ever for one class. What prompted that record-setting achievement? Much of the credit goes to a growing program at the School of Medicine called LEAD-ABC, which recruits top-level black students and allies who are dedicated to working with those communities to […]