Re-verified UCI trauma center plays critical role
UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange County’s only source for Level I trauma care, gets re-certification nod from American College of Surgeons.
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Triumph out of tragedy
Four other people are known to have survived the kind of spinal injury suffered by Jon Wilhite in a triple-fatality car crash, and everything had to go just right for emergency personnel and UC Irvine Medical Center doctors before this story could be told.
Parents warn of fire pit danger
More children than ever are being burned in beach fire pit accidents.
Cancer center's comprehensive designation reapproved
The National Cancer Institute has reapproved the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC Irvine as one of 40 comprehensive…
Laker Girl grows up
UCI honors student Bria Biggs balances her work as a dancer with the Laker Girls and aspirations to someday practice sports medicine.
Healing paws
Kahuna, a 2-year-old basset hound, parks his body next to the wheelchair of an elderly Latino woman, who takes hold of his neck. Her family talks excitedly in Spanish. It’s the first time she’s used her right hand since suffering a stroke. For Marianne Lovejoy, it’s another example of the healing power of dogs. Lovejoy, […]
Top hand surgeon joins UCI
One of the nation’s most acclaimed hand surgeons has joined UC Irvine Healthcare to start the Center for Hand and…
Mosallam honored by American Society of Civil Engineers
Ayman Mosallam, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering, recently received the Outstanding…
Governor appoints Petersilia to prison reform "strike team"
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed UC Irvine professor Joan Petersilia to a “strike team” to implement statewide prison reform. Petersilia,…