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    Students lack of sleep impacts academic performance

    Between juggling a full school schedule, work and a personal life, college students often spend long nights cramming for a test, accompanied by enormous amounts of caffeine. This requires taking advantage of any down time to catch up on sleep. It is something that is abundant in childhood, but lacking during college years. Sleep is … Read More

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    Commentary: Genetic testing can be a useful indicator

    Does ancestry determine disease risk? Can genetic testing really improve your health? Or does discovering a disease-causing mutation in your genome just give you something else to worry about? Those are the questions I confront every day in my genetics practice. When people ask me about the value of genetic testing, I tell them that … Read More

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    2015 Toshiba Classic moves to the fall

    ?Newport Beach golf enthusiasts will need to wait a little longer to watch their favorite players in action at the Champions Tour’s Toshiba Classic. The 21st annual Toshiba Classic, which is traditionally held in March, won’t tee off until Oct. 19, 2015, at the Newport Beach Country Club, Hoag Charity Sports announced Thursday. Toshiba Classic’s … Read More

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    Hoag Orthopedic Credits Physician-Patient Interaction for Low Readmission Rates

    ?Physician-patient interaction and patient engagement prior to surgery have resulted in dramatically low readmission rates for hip and knee replacement surgeries at the Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), according to Sopida Andronaco, RN, director of performance improvement and clinical outcomes at HOI. Andronaco told PNN that HOI physicians have been actively focusing on solving the problem … Read More

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    Teen given Disneyland scholarship for volunteering nearly 800 hours

    After eight years of volunteering a total of 793 hours of community service in Orange County, Fountain Valley High School student Jonathan Hwang’s philanthropic ventures were recently acknowledged with a $7,500 scholarship during a Fountain Valley City Council meeting. Hwang, a 17-year-old Fountain Valley student, was awarded the scholarship from the Disneyland Resort Scholarship Program … Read More

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    On Faith: Hoag Health Ministries and Faith Community Nursing

    ?“I didn’t know how valuable the Parish Nurse Program was until my brother Leroy started getting sick,” said Jim de Boom, Executive Director of the Newport Mesa Irvine Interfaith Council. “The Parish Nurse from his Methodist church in Minnesota visited Leroy in the hospital. She sat with him, encouraged other church members to visit and … Read More

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    Hoag pushes care out to patients

    ?The new wing of Hoag Hospital’s outpatient health center in Huntington Beach, which opened for business this week, is a gleaming symbol of what many see as the future of health care. The 50,000-square-foot addition to an existing Hoag site offers a state-of-the-art imaging center, advanced mammography, numerous cardiac services and a pediatric unit – … Read More

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    Health Center Addition Nears Opening

    ?The graceful curve of a long seaglass blue countertop greeted visitors Wednesday night as they passed through the airy new lobby of Hoag Health Center in Huntington Beach. Many continued on — champagne flutes and wine glasses in hand — to tour the facility’s state-of-the-art imaging center, pausing to inspect a giant CT scanner or … Read More

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    Hoag Orthopedic Uses Online Technology to Give Physicians Insight and Track Outcomes

    To become more transparent to doctors and patients, Hoag Orthopedic Institute relies on a home-based Web site dubbed “iCarePassport” to achieve better clinical outcomes, said the executive medical director at Hoag Orthopedic Institute in Irvine. According to Dr. Alan Beyer, who is also an orthopedic surgeon, the iCarePassport system, developed by San Diego-based health IT … Read More