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May 17, 2021 | UCI Health
UCI pediatric infectious disease expert says parents should get their teens immunized to protect them from COVID-19
With a COVID-19 vaccine now approved for children ages 12 to 15, parents should get their kids vaccinated, said UCI Health pediatric infectious disease expert Coleen Cunningham, MD.
May 17, 2021
Teens should get the COVID-19 vaccine, a UCI Health pediatric infectious disease expert tells parents
May 13, 2021 | UCI School of Medicine
New study finds low levels of a sugar metabolite associates with disability and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
A new University of California, Irvine-led study finds low serum levels of the sugar N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc), is associated with progressive disability and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS).
May 10, 2021
Inaugural SoM Lifetime Research Achievement Award (2021)
May 03, 2021 | General Surgery News
New Antireflux Technique Combines Laparoscopic, Transoral Approaches
A surgeon and gastroenterologist team from the University of California, Irvine, has developed a new approach for the treatment of antireflux disease.
May 01, 2021 | Department of Radiation Oncology
Peter Maxim, PhD, joins UCI as Vice Chair of Physics
After an extensive national search, noted physicist and researcher Peter Maxim, PhD, joined UCI's Department of Radiation Oncology as Vice Chair of Physics.
Apr 21, 2021 | AARP
Minorities Receive Less Timely Dementia Diagnoses Than Whites
Study of Medicare recipients finds racial and ethnic disparities
Apr 18, 2021 | UCI News
NIH grant will fund study of novel approach to repairing permanently damaged retinas
Magdalene Seiler, Ph.D., UCI associate professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, has been awarded a five-year, $3,823,950 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a preclinical study on rodent models of an innovative co-graft approach to repair permanently damaged retinas.
Apr 14, 2021 | UCI School of Medicine
New discovery could lead to therapies for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
A new study, led by the University of California, Irvine (UCI), reveals how chronic inflammation promotes muscle fibrosis, which could inform the development of new therapies for patients suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal muscle disease.
Apr 14, 2021 | KQED
Dr. Jose Mayorga joined the KQED Forum discussion about California's Expanded Vaccine Eligibility and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause
Dr. Jose Mayorga, executive director of the UCI Health Family Health Centers and assistant clinical professor of family medicine with UCI School of Medicine