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IRVINE, Calif., March 10, 2016 — Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian announced today that Hoag Urgent Care & Family Medicine is scheduled to open at Los Olivos Marketplace on Wednesday, March 16. Managed by Hoag Medical Group, Hoag Urgent Care & Family Medicine will be open 363 days a year, seven-days a week, including evenings and … Read More

At hospitals across California, administrators are pushing doctors to perform fewer cesarean deliveries, hiring birth coaches and asking pregnant women to stay in labor longer. For years, medical experts have said that C-sections — a surgical procedure in which a doctor makes an incision in the mother’s abdomen and uterus to remove the baby — … Read More

Medical screening tests are done to save lives. Most people know about the importance of screening mammography in the fight against breast cancer and colonoscopy in the prevention of colon and rectal cancer. These tests have become routine in the fight against cancer. Now added to the list is a screening test that can detect … Read More

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., February 24, 2016 — Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has again been recognized by Healthgrades as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals™ for 2016. This is the fifth consecutive year – 2012-2016 – Hoag has been awarded this designation. Top performing hospitals were selected by Healthgrades based on overall clinical excellence across a … Read More

Marcus Barnes couldn’t have envisioned what he was about to see. One month after successful brain surgery, the Irvine resident sat in an operating room at Hoag Hospital Newport Beach and was handed a pair of virtual reality goggles. “There’s your long-gone nemesis,” said Dr. Christopher Duma, neurosurgeon and medical director of the brain tumor … Read More

For years, anti-heartburn medication was prescribed like candy. Proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) seemed to cure the symptoms of heartburn, indigestion and acid reflux without any side effects. Or so we thought more than a decade ago. Now it seems as though every year researchers discover a new area of the body that has been negatively affected … Read More

Mark Franklin noticed he was losing the ability to communicate. He couldn’t think of everyday words, such as dog or pen. While working as a flight attendant, Cindy Godshall had a seizure in the middle of a Beijing hotel lobby. Both were diagnosed with glioblastoma, a fast-growing cancer of certain cells that support neurons in … Read More

We're at the beginning of the era of “curing” Alzheimer's disease. No more slipping into oblivion. No more loss of dignity. One day – not too long from now – degenerative cognitive conditions will be as manageable as high blood pressure, a disease that requires vigilance to keep at bay but doesn't rob you of … Read More

Chances are – if you’re reading this – you follow the NFL. You almost certainly enjoy the NFL. Perhaps you even love the NFL. But do you trust the NFL? Not likely, given the evidence that suggests the actual players don’t trust their own league or their own teams and the widely held assumption that … Read More

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., February 2, 2016 — High-tech computer games and operating rooms may not appear to have much in common at first blush — but Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian has become Orange County’s first and only hospital to treat neurosurgery patients using the same sophisticated software platform that powers today’s highly immersive and realistic … Read More