Medicine

New UCI Health Center for Advanced Care to provide greater access to world-class care

North Campus facility will include Center for Children’s Health and adult specialty services

UCI scientists get ‘initial hit' in developing drug to treat COVID-19

Synthetic molecule binds to coronavirus enzyme, blocks key function

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

UCI’s Kalpna Gupta

Cannabis shows potential for mitigating sickle cell disease pain

Clinical trial co-led by UCI professor is first of its kind to use gold-standard methods

Epidemiology professor Karen Edwards, department of Public Health Steve Zylius / UCI

What's next: The future of summer vacation

UCI epidemiologist offers advice on healthy travel, recreation during the pandemic

Marriage & Family Therapist Associate Dr. Nicole Reilly demonstrates how she sometimes offers telehealth therapy services from her home.

Cultivating calm amid the coronavirus

Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute offers free online classes to relieve stress, anxiety during the pandemic

Phil Felgner, director of UCI’s Vaccine R&D Center, gazing through a window

Blood will tell

UCI researchers create coronavirus microarray test to determine true prevalence of COVID-19 infection and gauge antibody responses

UCI medical student Mehron Dhillon stacks donations of personal protective equipment during a drive for supplies in the School of Medicine parking lot.

Giving their all

Community members, local companies, philanthropists, students and alumni have rallied around UCI Health with donations of funds and personal protective equipment

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UCI Podcast: The race for COVID testing

In March, the UCI Medical Center became the first hospital in Orange County to provide COVID-19 testing. In the UCI Podcast, Dr. Ed Monuki, chair of pathology who leads UCI Health’s testing efforts, discusses how the campus came together to address this community need and how future testing for the coronavirus and its antibodies will […]