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IRVINE A diverse group of UC Irvine students got a first-hand look at the divisive Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a recent two-week long trip to the region.

SAN DIEGO - When the make-love-not-war generation finally got around to having kids, they were so proud of their accomplishment that they fawned over the little darlings and protectively adorned their minivans with yellow caution signs that warned of precious cargo: "Baby on Board." Now, after many years of being told they were special and ...

Limited-government rhetoric at odds with record. Although he hasn't formally announced his candidacy, state Attorney General Jerry Brown, known to many as Moonbeam when he was governor, probably will be a front-runner for California chief executive in next year's election.

Fans of the hit show, Dollhouse, which airs on Fox on Friday nights, were in for a treat when one of the breakout stars in Season One returned to the show for its Second Season.

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Jerry Brown was sounding downright conservative when he told a group of corporate attorneys last week that the state's businesses are burdened with too many regulations.

Contrary to Beck's suggestion that Congress does not have the authority to enact health care reform legislation and the implication that health reform is unconstitutional, numerous legal experts have disputed these claims, including University of California, Irvine law professor and Constitutional expert Erwin Chemerinsky, who explained that "there ...

University of California is preparing to ask students to pay $2,500 more over two years, a plan that has drawn protest at two major campuses.

An international team of scientists who took CT scans of mummified bodies of people who lived in Egypt up to 3,500 years ago found evidence to suggest that hardening of arteries, a risk factor for heart attacks and strokes, is not a modern disease and may have been quite common among ancient Egyptians of high socioeconomic status.

A mummy undergoes a scan at the City University in central London in July. The hardening of the arteries associated with heart attacks and strokes is not just a modern phenomenon, according to new research showing ancient Egypt's pharaohs suffered from heart disease too.

Study results are appearing in the Nov. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association and are being presented Nov.

Patients with coronary heart disease who practiced the stress-reducing Transcendental Meditation technique had nearly 50 percent lower rates of heart attack, stroke, and death compared to nonmeditating controls, according to the results of a first-ever study presented during the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Fla., on ...

UC Irvine pharmacology researchers have discovered a way to boost levels of a natural body fat that helps decrease inflammation, pointing to possible new treatments for allergies, illnesses and injuries related to the immune system.

It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.

Washington, November 10 : The first human embryonic stem cell treatment for human testing shows promise in helping people with cervical damage after restoring limb function in rats with neck spinal cord injuries.

Alexandra Sherman, a senior at St. Francis High School in Sacramento, works on her application to UC Irvine as her mother, Marlene Sherman, looks on at their home.

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Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Article Date: 13 Nov 2009 Researchers from the University of California, Irvine Medical Center reported last week that image-guided RapidArc radiotherapy from Varian Medical Systems has clinical advantages over earlier fixed-beam approaches to stereotactic radiosurgery ...

Calls to boycott Israeli academics, divest from companies doing business in Israel, and impose economic sanctions against Israel are the latest tricks of the anti-Israel trade that have taken hold on college campuses the world over.

November 12, 2009 - The Design Automation Conference , the premier conference devoted to electronic design and design automation , has named the members of the 47th DAC Executive Committee .