Jun 20, 2026 | Health

6 Foods to Help Lower Blood Pressure Besides Pomegranate Juice

Like pomegranates, leafy greens like kale and spinach are rich in naturally occurring nitrates, according to Geoffrey Abbott, PhD, a professor of physiology and biophysics in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine. Your body converts nitrates into nitric oxide, a key molecule involved in blood pressure regulation.

Jun 19, 2026 | Live Science

Estrogen Levels in Both the Male and Female Brain May Share Memory's Resilience in Face of Stress

The study suggests that these local estrogen concentrations may influence one's vulnerability to memory problems following major acute stress. Although the research was conducted in mice, the authors think it likely has relevance to humans. "I think this is highly translatable," study senior author Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD, a professor, developmental neuroscientist and child neurologist at the University of California, Irvine, told Live Science.

Jun 18, 2026 | Psychology Today

Ear Ringing and the Residual Self

Hamid Djalilian, a professor of otolaryngology at the University of California, Irvine writes, “To understand what goes wrong in chronic tinnitus, it helps to understand what the brain is doing when it has downtime. … When it registers a signal as persistent and significant, the default mode network begins integrating it — not as background noise, but as a fact about the person experiencing it.”

Jun 16, 2026 | Medical Xpress

Utah's Strict 0.05 BAC Limit Significantly Reduces Drunk Driving Fatalities, Analysis Finds

Lead investigator Federico E. Vaca, MD, MPH, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, notes, "In the last decade for which we have federally published U.S. crash data (2014–2023) available, the number of alcohol-impaired driving crash fatalities increased by 25% and the corresponding fatality rate increased by 15%.