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May 19, 2026
May 19, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
MD/PhD Student Bianca Leonard Honored for Excellence in Health for the Latino Community
At UC Irvine’s ninth annual Latine Excellence and Achievement Award Dinner (LEAD), Bianca Leonard, PhD, was honored for graduate student excellence in health at the intersection of neuroscience and mental health.
May 18, 2026 | Everyday Health
8 Daily Rituals to Help You Manage Hereditary Angioedema (HAE)
Building stress busters into your day can help you feel more levelheaded all while potentially keeping attacks at bay, says Donald Levy, MD, an allergist and immunologist with UCI Health in Irvine, California. … “Excessive anything can bring on an HAE attack,” says Dr. Levy, including extreme temperatures, sun exposure, and sweating on a very hot day
May 18, 2026 | Neuroscience News
Parkinson's Drug Restores Memories in Alzheimer's
Imagine if patients with Alzheimer’s could have their memories restored. Such a future may seem like a pipe dream, but a new study by researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine, has identified dopamine dysfunction as a previously unrecognized mechanism underlying memory impairment, unlocking a potential therapeutic means of reversing cognitive decline.
May 18, 2026 | Spectrum News 1
‘I couldn't imagine ever doing much better than struggling to stay sober’: Using ibogaine to treat substance use disorder
Through a grant-funded study at UC Irvine, Rick Harris, PhD, who is leading the study, said the ultimate goal of the treatment is to stop the addiction cravings altogether. … “We try it once and it breaks the addiction, and then you don’t have to take it anymore.”
May 18, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
Reimagining School Fitness Testing to Advance Pediatric Health
Dan M. Cooper, MD, recently coauthored a paper published in Pediatric Research that outlines recommendations for reimagining school-based fitness testing as a useful and predictive biomarker of pediatric health.
May 15, 2026 | UC Irvine School of Medicine
UC Irvine Researchers Discover Cellular ‘Tug-of-War’ That Shapes How Our Genes Are Expressed — With Potential Implications for Cancer Drug Safety
The study shows that two crucial steps in processing genetic messages — splicing and 3′ end processing — actively compete with each other to shape what RNA molecules are generated.
May 14, 2026 | UC Irvine News
W. M. Keck Foundation Gives $1.2 Million to UC Irvine to Support Early-Career Scientists
Six research teams, including one from the School of Medicine's Department of Physiology & Biophysics, were awarded bridge funding to sustain innovation amid federal funding uncertainty.
May 12, 2026
May 11, 2026 | Everyday Health
Heart-Healthy Eating When You Have Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
“Too much sodium can increase blood pressure and fluid retention, potentially worsening shortness of breath or heart strain,” says Behram Mody, MD, the director of the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy program at UCI Health in Orange, California.