UC Irvine Medical Center is recognized for its commitment to organ donation

US Department of Health & Human Services awards the hospital a Silver Medal of Honor.

Researchers gauge post-disaster resilience

UCI-led team of social scientists assesses post-disaster community resilience.

UCI physician, nurse appointed to Orange County EMS quality board

UCI’s McCoy and Carroll appointed to Orange County EMS quality board for two-year terms.

UCI non-small cell lung cancer study highlights advances in targeted drug therapy

Lung cancer tumors stop growing, shrink or disappear in 90 percent of patients targeted drug therapy study.

Bryan Doerries

Healing the wounds of war

The ancient Greeks knew the battlefield could leave emotional scars, and they had a distinctive way of dealing with it: They put on a play. Dramas about Achilles and Ajax showed these mythological war heroes suffering from the “divine madness” caused by combat — known today as post-traumatic stress disorder. “Scholars say Greek theater helped […]

UC Irvine's newly renamed hospital in Orange

Hospital benefactor honored

The hospital at UC Irvine Medical Center this week was officially renamed UC Irvine Douglas Hospital in honor of local businessman M.A. Douglas, whose estate donated $21 million to the new medical facility.

UC Irvine News Brief: Anatomy & neurobiology chair to help allocate epilepsy research funds

Ivan Soltesz will co-chair the review panel for the Epilepsy Foundation’s grant and fellowship program.

UCI stem cell researchers to receive $9.35 million in state funding

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine grants awarded to Dr. Henry Klassen, Leslie M. Thompson, Brian Cummings and Aileen Anderson will support early stage translational research and help create stem cell treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, Huntington’s disease and traumatic brain injury.

Hospital named in honor of benefactor

New 482,000-square-foot facility named after M.A. Douglas, who made posthumous donation of $21 million.

Tom Fox

From fear to hope

Tom Fox is looking forward to college and a career after UC Irvine neuro-oncologists helped him battle brain cancer.