Feb 02, 2026 | Healio

Medicaid Expansion Linked with Merkel Cell Survival

“Early recognition, prompt biopsy, and expedited referral can have a major impact on outcomes, particularly for patients who may already face insurance or access barriers,” Thuy Tran, MD, surgical oncologist, assistant professor of surgery and director of melanoma surgery research at the University of California Irvine, told Healio.  

Feb 02, 2026 | Fast Company

Hospitals are 24/7 Energy Hogs. This One Just Went All Electric

The University of California Irvine’s new healthcare campus has a long list of innovative features, from its combined inpatient-outpatient surgical suite to its outdoor chemotherapy infusion terrace to an entire floor dedicated to staff only. The one thing it doesn’t have is a gas line.  

Jan 30, 2026 | STAT

How Direct-To-Consumer Health Tests Could Impact Insurance, Mortgages, and Employment

“If you don’t agree [to share the data], you don’t get the policy, you don’t get the bank loan, whatever you’re applying toward,” said Mark Rothstein, director of translational bioethics at UC Irvine.

Jan 28, 2026 | Becker's Heath IT

The Top Workflow Pain Points Frustrating Physicians

Dr. Deepti Pandita said UCI Health is investing in voice recognition, generative AI and AI agents to streamline documentation and administrative tasks.

Jan 23, 2026 | The New York Times

How To Protect Yourself In Extreme Cold

"Cold affects every organ system,” said Dr. Isabel Algaze Gonzalez, an emergency medicine physician at the University of California, Irvine. Low temperatures can also raise people’s blood pressure within just 20 minutes of exposure.

Jan 23, 2026 | The New York Times

What Doctors Want You To Know About Suppplements

"The supplement industry is essentially unregulated, so you’re basically taking a gamble any time you’re taking one of those products,” said Brian Hitt, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine.

Jan 22, 2026 | Medical Xpress

Researchers Find Differences Between Two Causes of Heart Valve Narrowing

"For decades, mitral stenosis has been assessed using a one-size-fits-all approach," said senior co-author of the study Arash Kheradvar, UC Irvine professor of radiological sciences, biomedical engineering and medicine.

Jan 21, 2026 | MSN

Greenland Sharks Can Survive For Centuries In The Dark, and They Could Hold Clues to Preserving Human Vision

"[As a Greenland shark,] you don't have high resolution," said Dorota Skowronska-Krawcyzk, a co-author of the study and a physiologist at the University of California, Irvine. "You see light and darkness, but you don't really see the shapes very well, or you cannot distinguish probably fast movements." After analyzing genetic material from some of the eyeballs more closely, the team realized that the genes ERCC1 and ERCC4 could be why the sharks' vision has lasted so long.

Jan 21, 2026 | Medscape

Inequalities in Treating Asian Americans for Heart Failure

Andy Y. Lee, MD, an assistant clinical professor at UC Irvine, noted that these patients highlight a persistent systemic failure of healthcare databases to capture the diversity of Asian American populations — despite federal standards for disaggregating Asian subgroup data having been issued in 2011.

Jan 16, 2026 | Smithsonian Magazine

Greenland Sharks Can Survive For Centuries - And Maintain Long-Lasting Vision, Desite Living In The Dark

“[As a Greenland shark] you don’t have high resolution,” study co-author Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, a physiologist at the University of California, Irvine, tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Peter de Kruijff. “You see light and darkness, but you really don’t see the shapes very well, or you cannot distinguish probably fast movements.”