Why so many mass killings? Families, experts seek answers
"These tragedies compounded one after the other, making it almost too much to bear." (Roxanne Cohen Silver)
China’s revised regulation on human genome editing: the good news and the bad news
"Well-defined, carefully crafted regulatory exceptions are often abused and exploited by commercial actors that engage in activities falling outside such narrow exceptions. For financial gain, such entities try to evade regulators and determine what they are able to get away with without suffering significant consequences." (Leigh Turner)
Be wary of unproven eye drop treatment with amniotic fluid, FDA says
"The problem with such commercial activity is that such companies haven't tested their products in controlled clinical trials and the safety and efficacy of such amniotic fluid products in the treatment of individuals with dry eye disease and other diseases have not yet been established." (Leigh Turner)
A Patient’s Guide to Respiratory Disease
"When SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets into your body, it comes into contact with mucous membranes that line your nose, mouth and eyes. It uses the healthy cells it comes into contact with to make more copies of the virus." (David Souleles)
Orange County Women Honored at 6th Annual ‘Women of the Year’ Awards
"“This is a great event, it’s so important to acknowledge the amazing women in our community,” Charles told The Epoch Times after the ceremony." (Bernadette Boden-Albala)
Free Health and Hiring Fair at the UCI Health Family Center in Santa Ana this Saturday
"Join University of California, Irvine for a Health and Hiring Fair this Saturday, April 8, at the UCI Health Family Center in Santa Ana from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m."
Orange County COVID-19 Hospitalizations Rise Slightly
"We're very happy about it. But people should be aware there's a new disease out there called COVID and it's out there. That doesn't mean you can't book a dinner party, but it also doesn't mean COVID has disappeared. If you had told me 36 months ago there would permanently be 19 people in the ICU I think you would have called me overly pessimistic." (Andrew Noymer)
Deaths in California on the rise
"Absolutely, I’d say it’s quite directly related, these are deaths that are not being coded as COVID deaths, as the underlying cause of death, but COVID has impacted the mortality of Californians and people elsewhere, there are strokes and heart attacks that follow in the wake of COVID infection and in the coming years we are going to find out how long this effect lasts but in the meantime mortality is up." (Andrew Noymer)
Orange County’s COVID-19 metrics continue going down
"I'm really happy to see things are continuing to be quite manageable. The worst statistic is the test positivity, which is another reminder that we still have COVID." (Andrew Noymer)
Southern California life expectancy shows huge gaps based on race, gender, county
"These differences aren’t accidents. Why would a virus affect certain groups more than others? The pandemic revealed a system of broader inequities." (Brittany Morey)
