Jun 03, 2025 | Being Patient

Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers Struggle As 1/3 Lose Their Federal Funding

Elizabeth Head, PhD, leads UC Irvine's Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, which relies on NIH funding.

Jun 03, 2025 | Edex Live

Revamping education: Why Art and Humanities are more important now than ever

At UC Irvine, medical students have been studying humanities and arts to build empathy, communication and clinical observation skills.

Jun 03, 2025 | UCI Health

Study: Black patients more likely to receive chemical restraint in psychiatric hospital settings

According to Katy F. Lunny, MD, an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine, Black patients experience greater disparities in psychiatric treatment. She spoke with MedPage Today about how clinicians’ biases, especially when it comes to women’s care, can lead to delayed treatment.

Jun 03, 2025 | TCTMD

Words of Wisdom for Early-Career Interventional Cardiologists

Morton Kern, MD, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in interventional cardiology. With permission from the participants, TCTMD presents their conversations for the benefit of the cardiology community.

Jun 03, 2025 | Medical Xpress

FDA approves Tryptyr eye drops for dry eye disease

UCI Health Gavin Herbert Eye Institute ophthalmologist Dr. Marjan Farid says a new dry eye treatment approved by the FDA could bring much-needed relief to sufferers of the condition.

Jun 01, 2025 | The New York Times

Living to Die Well

In an opinion piece, Sunita Puri, MD, writes, “We don’t have to wait until we are dying to consider what it means to live freely. ... reconceptualizing death as a guide can help us to begin an ongoing conversation with ourselves about who we are and what we’d like our lives to mean.”