integrative health

Culinary medicine class teaches future physicians how to practice what they preach – and pass it on to patients

UCI School of Medicine researcher Geoff Abbott, professor of physiology & biophysics, is the recipient of a $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (R35 grant) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and a $1.7 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The five-year grants help enable studies focused […]

A $200 million shot in the arm aims to transform healthcare and UCI

Cardiologist’s family history inspires innovative program to prevent coronary disease

A look at four patients who are benefiting from UCI’s integrative healthcare

Susan Samueli has been a longtime believer in integrative health

Doctors and researchers share snapshots of how communication, lifestyle, data, innovation and scientific evidence are changing healthcare as we know it

Ancient Chinese practice lowers blood pressure, may lessen stroke, heart disease risks

As part of its effort to provide scientifically studied forms of complementary healthcare, the Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine this year began offering courses in mindfulness-based stress reduction. They have been wildly successful.

Did your New Year’s resolution involve making a fresh start? Letting go and living better? Reviving body and mind? If those good intentions vanished with your first pressing deadline of 2011 or the daily bumper-car commute, Leigh Poirier Ball is here to help. As acting director of the UC Irvine Health Education Center, Poirier Ball assists […]