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Medical students honored for hosting LGBT conference

A team of UCI medical students led by sophomore Soe Thein has received the 2016 LGBT Health Achievement Award from the American Medical Student Association. The group, which also included students from UCLA and USC, was honored for hosting the Southern California LGBT Health Conference, which was held Feb. 20 in UCI’s Medical Education Building. […]

Doctors go digital

Smartphone attachments are replacing traditional tools of the trade

UCI's new biocontainment lab to be designated a National Training Center

Distinguished recognition slated for first-of-its-kind facility in the US

Leslie Thompson

UCI team finds method to reduce accumulation of damaging Huntington's disease protein

A study appearing April 14 in the journal Neuron suggests there may be a new way to change the damaging course of Huntington disease. University of California, Irvine neurobiologists Leslie Thompson and Joseph Ochaba and their colleagues from UCI and from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that reducing the aberrant accumulation of a particular form of the […]

UCI study finds safer stem cell-derived therapy for brain radiation recovery

Microvesicle injections restored cognition without adverse side effects

Controlling blood pressure, sugar, cholesterol linked to 62 percent lower cardiovascular disease risk in patients with diabetes

UCI report also reveals only 7 percent in major heart studies successfully managed these 3 factors

Match Day: The day they became doctors

UCI’s graduating medical students look to the future on March 18 as they learn where their careers will start

Is stroke prevention taking a back seat to stroke treatment?

Three-fourths of ER stroke cases had some degree of preventability, UCI survey finds

Green tea impairs development, reproduction in fruit flies, UCI study finds

Research suggests that excessive consumption by humans may be unhealthy

New class of inhibitory compounds developed to aid melanoma treatments

UCI-led discovery helps healthy cell processes that can block tumor growth