All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor’s touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. Rather than feeling for a broken bone or swollen abdomen or merely listening to the heart, Fox has trained UC Irvine Medical Center’s emergency department clinicians to use the latest in lightweight, high-resolution […]
Paolo Sassone-Corsi is perhaps the world’s leading researcher on the body clock, and what he’s discovered may one day improve human health.
Joyce Keyak takes her expertise in engineering and orthopedics to help treat cancer
Transplant surgeon Dr. Clarence E. Foster III recently traded the convenience of UC Irvine Medical Center’s modern operating rooms for the treacherous and harsh environs of war-torn Iraq, where he performed life-saving trauma surgery on injured soldiers and civilians and cared for the health of detainees.
UC Irvine is a hot spot for systems biology, a new approach to learning why the human body and other organisms work the way they do.
Nearly three-fourths of American adults with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes or other conditions that raise the risk for cardiovascular complications also have high blood pressure, according to a University of California, Irvine study. The report, which appears in the Dec. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, also notes that although 75 percent […]
Sherrie Kaplan and Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, executive co-directors of UC Irvine’s Center for Health Policy Research, have been awarded a…
UC Irvine professors Clare Yu and her collaborator, Steven Gross, have received about $1.5 million over five years from the…
Pioneering medical education program bridges cultural divide
UCI alumnus David Marrero is both a patient and powerful foe of diabetes