Oladele Ogunseitan picks up a cell phone and tosses it into a small wood chipper in his UC Irvine lab. Is he conducting a wacky experiment? Overreacting to one too many dropped calls? Actually, Ogunseitan grinds up old phones for a purely scientific cause: He’s studying toxic electronic waste. Chair of the population health & […]
Handheld laser scanner developed at UCI improves detection, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Most nurses see patients in health clinics, hospitals and offices, but Jill Berg is different. She makes house calls. Berg consults with people who have asthma and other chronic pulmonary conditions in their homes, churches and schools, often venturing into L.A.’s toughest neighborhoods. Her mission: to help them breathe easier. “I love getting out there […]
Study finds that race matters in public’s opinion of President Barack Obama and his policies.
‘Hidden biases’ behind opposition to president and his healthcare plan.
Biologist Bruce Blumberg believes industrial pollutants called obesogens are contributing to America’s obesity epidemic.
Anne Friedberg, former professor of film & media studies at UC Irvine, passed away Oct. 9 at the age of…
Young people may not be able to fully control impulses, resist peer pressure till after 22.
Nine paintings created through an Alzheimer’s Association program called Memories in the Making are on display at UCI MIND.
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.