Halloween's mean streets
The potential for automobile versus trick-or-treater accidents is more pronounced this year, says Dr. Frederico Vaca, because Halloween falls on a Friday – prime party time.
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Calming children before surgery
Surgery is stressful for even the calmest patient, but for children it can be particularly traumatic and frightening. For anesthesiologists, soothing anxious children about to enter surgery is a critical part of the job, and Dr. Zeev Kain, anesthesiology & perioperative care chair at UC Irvine, is turning to ancient Chinese medicine for new methods.
Adult stem cells activated in mammalian brain
Adult stem cells originate in a different part of the brain than is commonly believed, and with proper stimulation they…
Skateboard injuries incur economic pain, too
Researchers from UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Center for Trauma and Injury Prevention have found that the economic aches attached…
School of Medicine to break ground on state-of-the-art telemedicine center
Medicine in the future won’t be limited to the hospital setting. Emerging digital technologies are creating a field called telemedicine, which is helping bridge one of the largest gaps in healthcare today – access to high-level, specialized care for people who live in rural or remote areas. To help accelerate this evolution, the University of […]
Taking back the campus
CARE director Mandy Mount’s efforts to prevent sexual assault earn her the Living Our Values Award
Vaca study to focus on injury risk and young Latino men
Dr. Federico Vaca, UC Irvine associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of the Center for Trauma and Injury…
Chair of surgery honored with distinguished service award
Dr. David B. Hoyt, the John E. Connolly M.D. Professor and Chair of Surgery, has been awarded with the American…
State grant to support alcohol prevention program for drivers
Dr. Federico Vaca and the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Center for Trauma and Injury Prevention Research were recently awarded…
Lives in the balance
Engineering professor Maria Feng works to make structures safer and avoid disasters like the Minneapolis bridge collapse