KEYWORD

diabetes

Joyce Lee standing in the produce section of a market in front of apples stacked in bins.

Preventing prediabetes

Joyce Lee enlists supermarket pharmacists for personalized, on-site coaching of select patients

Jonathan Watanabe, UCI professor of clinical pharmacy.

UC Irvine study reveals surge in use of weight loss-linked drugs in California health system

Access, supply and cost issues for GLP-1 agonists must be addressed as more growth projected

UCLA and UCI create novel center that addresses cardiovascular disease among LAC and OC minority communities

Center will also fund pilot projects for community organizations and train underrepresented postdoctoral fellows and young investigators

Jun Wu, Ph.D., professor of environmental and occupational health at the UCI Program in Public Health

UCI-led study links air pollution exposure while pregnant to higher gestational diabetes risk

Suggested interventions include better air regulation and health screenings

Cheryl Wisseh awarded grant to study racial disparities in diabetes drug regimens, results

Cheryl Wisseh, UCI assistant professor of clinical pharmacy practice, has received an 18-month, $10,000 grant from the ASHP Research and Education Foundation to study racial and ethnic disparities in diabetes-specific medication regimens and clinical outcomes among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white adults in South Los Angeles. Diabetes is a growing epidemic, especially in the Hispanic community, […]

Jonathan Lakey (right), UCI professor of surgery and biomedical engineering, and Reza Mohammadi, who earned a doctorate in materials science and engineering at UCI

UCI-led team develops transplant biomaterial that doesn’t trigger immune response

Based on stem cell technology, platform can offer long-term treatment for Type 1 diabetes

Dania Maldonado, a student in UCI’s Program in Medical Education for the Latino Community

Paying it forward through preventive care

First-gen medical student – a fellowship recipient – aims to help the underserved avoid chronic diseases

Women with diabetes and high levels of coronary artery calcium at greater risk of death than men

UCI, Cedars-Sinai study is a call-to-action for more aggressive risk factor management

UCI team to use $1.4 million award to improve how diabetic children are treated

Sherrie Kaplan and her colleagues in the Health Policy Research Institute at UCI have received a $1.4 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to determine how effective diabetes treatments are for children. For the study, the researchers have developed and tested an animated, computer-administered program, the Child Health Rating Inventories, that can be […]

Wound warriors

UCI alumni, doctor engineer potential stem cell treatment for diabetic foot ulcers