UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized with ‘A’ Grades for Safety
April 30, 2020
UC San Diego Health has been awarded double ‘A’ grades for the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.
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Arthritis Drug Presents Promise as Treatment for COVID-19 Pneumonia
April 29, 2020
UC San Diego Health has launched a Phase III clinical trial to assess whether a medication used to treat rheumatoid might also have therapeutic value for patient with COVID-19 who have developed or are at high risk of developing serious lung damage from SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Loss of Smell Associated with Milder Clinical Course in COVID-19
April 27, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego Health report in newly published findings that olfactory impairment suggests the resulting COVID-19 disease is more likely to be mild to moderate, a potential early indicator that could help health care providers determine which patients may require hospitalization.
Gut Microbes Influence How Rat Brains React to Opioids
April 27, 2020
Antibiotic treatment — which depletes gut microbes — drastically changes the parts of a rat’s brain that are activated during opioid addiction and withdrawal.
For ME/CFS Patients, Viral Immunities Come at a Devastating, Lifelong Cost
April 27, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and three German universities describe an underlying biological basis for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, illustrating how efforts by the body to boost immune system protections can come at physiological cost elsewhere.
Four from UC San Diego Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2020
Three faculty members and one vice chancellor are among the Academy’s 2020 class of 276 members, recognized for their outstanding accomplishments, expertise and insights toward the common good.
SDSC Mourns the Loss of Ann Redelfs
April 23, 2020
Ann Redelfs, who joined the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego in 1995 as the Center’s director of external relations before returning to Cornell University in 2001, passed away on April 18 in Duluth, MN, due to complications from a blood clotting disorder.
Researchers Make Gemstones with Salty, Soapy Water for the First Time
April 22, 2020
Collaborators from the University of California San Diego and New York University used salt, soap and water to make “bling” with a proposed novel experiment by UC San Diego’s Jérémie Palacci to form ionic colloidal crystals from common colloids.
New Study Looks at How the “Blob” Came Back
April 21, 2020
Weakened wind patterns likely spurred the wave of extreme ocean heat that swept the North Pacific Ocean last summer, according to new research led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
Finding Leukemia’s Weakness Using Genome-Wide CRISPR Technology
April 20, 2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemia.
