Cell therapy: a new frontier in Parkinson's disease April 14, 2022 | UCI Health UCI Health Parkinson's disease specialist Dr. Claire Henchcliffe hopes a new stem cell therapy can finally bring meaningful relief to patients with... Read More Tags Parkinson's breakthroughs clinical trials brain dementia
Virtual reality eases pain February 24, 2022 | UCI Health Patients like Bonnie Carroll are able to avoid sedatives to manage pain with virtual reality glasses during procedures at the UCI Health Pain and... Read More Tags breakthroughs pain addiction
Freed from incontinence by an implant November 04, 2021 | UCI Health After years of suffering with severe incontinence, Melissa Der Manouel got her life back with a miniature device implanted by UCI Health... Read More Tags incontinence breakthroughs women's health patient stories pelvic floor
A new way to transplant insulin-producing islet cells October 28, 2021 | UCI Health UC Irvine researchers are testing a promising new way to transplant insulin-producing islet cells without the need for harsh immunosuppressant drug... Read More Tags breakthroughs diabetes pancreas transplants
Natural killer cells show potential to treat COVID-19 symptoms August 13, 2021 | Valerie Elwell After joining a groundbreaking COVID-19 clinical trial, UCI Health patient Michael Nguyen felt better within days of getting natural killer (NK)... Read More Tags clinical trials breakthroughs COVID-19 infections
Bone marrow program marks new era for cancer care August 05, 2021 | Kristina Lindgren A little over a year after performing Orange County’s first adult bone-marrow transplant, the UCI Health Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant... Read More Tags cancer clinical trials breakthroughs transplants