Southern California

Bernadette Boden-Albala
Irvine Standard, October 2, 2024

Leaving the Big Apple for UCI: Bernadette Boden-Albala

"Being a new school, we’re nimble and fluid, addressing problems of the future instead of the past. Older schools have embedded infrastructure that makes change difficult. I’m in awe of our faculty and the work they’re doing in our local and global communities. Our faculty are solving problems in ways other great schools can’t." (Bernadette Boden-Albala)
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UCI News, September 23, 2024

UC Irvine grad student training program aims to broaden access to cardiovascular care

"The NSF BEST program will introduce students to the concept of team science and provide skills training at multiple stages of each participant’s journey. The outcomes will be rigorously studied and evaluated to perfect training in the knowledge, skills and values to collaboratively solve health inequities with technology." (Jason Douglas)
Andrew Noymer
The Orange Country Register, September 16, 2024

Polio? Mumps? Chicken pox? Many SoCal kids lack required vaccinations

"COVID shots — as well as flu —are not required for public school attendance. The must-do list targets contagious illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis; polio; Hepatitis B; measles, mumps and rubella; and varicella (chickenpox). Many of those require a series of shots, timed for maximum effect, over weeks or months." (Andrew Noymer)
Michael Kleinman
ASBMB Today, September 14, 2024

At the Salton Sea, uncovering the culprit of lung disease

"The Salton Sea may simply provide a glimpse of the future, as climate change begins to produce new and unexpected health challenges. We are going to see novel things happening. They may have just been the canary in the coal mine on this one. " (Michael Kleinman)
Bernadette Boden-Albala
The Orange County Register, September 9, 2024

UC Irvine announces most successful fundraising year on record

"Philanthropic contributions in those areas were especially noteworthy in the last fiscal year thanks to two $50 million donations — one from biotech entrepreneur Charlie Dunlop to name the school of biological sciences and another from businessman Joe C. Wen to name and launch Orange County’s first school of public health and support cardiovascular services." (Bernadette Boden-Albala)
Andrew Noymer
The Orange County Register, September 9, 2024

California’s COVID booster rates are dismal as new shot debuts. More sickness ahead?

"During the Delta surge, it was clear COVID was going hell-for-leather. Now we get these surges, and it’s less predictable. Unlike 2020 and some extent 2021, most people have had a COVID vaccine by now...I still believe it reduces severity. I’d advise readers who haven’t gotten any to get on board. You could be saving your own, or someone else’s, Nana." (Andrew Noymer)
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University of California, September 5, 2024

You know wildfire smoke is bad for you. But did you know it’s this bad?

"When it clocks pollution particles, your immune system first responds with inflammation, generating heat and bombarding the point of entry with specialized cells meant to attack anything your body recognizes as foreign. Inflammation is good when it fights off viruses and bacteria, but too much of it for too long can also wear down your organs and contribute to chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes." (Masashi Kitazawa)