Loma Linda University News

AP Photo/ Agostini George Clooney, who is often pictured as a somber man, is laughing a lot these days.

The parent company of Loma Linda University Medical Center and EPIC Management LP, a Redlands-based physician group management company, have reached a preliminary agreement to form a collaborative healthcare system stretching from Rancho Cucamonga to Beaumont.

Guests can play golf and tennis, take walks, run, swim and work out in the gym, or just go sightseeing.

Can pretending to ride the subway, leaning into the turns and toppling fellow passengers, relieve stress? Apparently, if the conductor is a certified laughter leader and the strap-hangers are willing to force a few laughs.

A boost of a highly targeted form of radiation therapy may prevent prostate cancer from coming back, a study of nearly 400 men suggests.

Researchers and regulators are focusing what some say is unprecedented attention on a low-income, predominately Hispanic community of about 7,000 people living with pollution from a west San Bernardino rail yard.

The mother of Baby Fae, the infant who drew worldwide attention in 1984 when Loma Linda University Medical Center surgeons replaced her defective heart with one from a baboon, called the doctor who headed the medical team courageous for his groundbreaking work.

There may be some truth to the saying that all women will eventually turn into their mothers, with a US study finding daughters age and wrinkle like their mothers.

James Caley might argue he can "reform" the most petrified dental patient. "We try to rehabilitate them, use less and less anesthetic, all of a sudden they've lost that fear," Caley said.

A large globe at the new building's entry symbolizes the 80 countries that Loma Linda University reaches out to for its students.

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Twenty-five years ago this week, the pioneering transplant of a baboon heart into newborn Baby Fae made Loma Linda University famous.

Loma Linda University Health Care was recognized by the Integrated Healthcare Association for "most improved performance" in the Inland Empire.

Raising awareness about taboo subjects was the theme Wednesday night at the Seeds of Hope dinner at the Mitten Building.

Springer is launching a new quarterly journal Translational Stroke Research , which aims to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma.

What do you consider the most pressing issue for the city of San Diego? The most pressing issue is the citya s ongoing structural budget deficit.

Last week we talked about the Veterans History Project and the importance of recording their recollections of the wars in which they served.

Walkers carry a banner during a previous benefit for Empty Cradle. A pair of walks to raise awareness of the emotional toll from miscarriages and other types of infant loss will be held in Loma Linda on Sunday and in Temecula on Oct.

The mission has been the same for a century. Provide a medical school of the first order that is committed to training medical missionaries, doing cutting-edge research and serving the underserved at home and abroad.

The only thing that could keep firefighters from volunteering at a fundraiser for Loma Linda University Children's Hospital was a fire.