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Center for Health Innovation Expands with $22 Million in Gifts

With a generous $22 million in gifts from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, UC San Diego Health will bring its Center for Health Innovation into full reality.

Toddlers’ Attention to ‘Motherese’ Speech May Be Used to Diagnose Autism

Toddlers’ level of attention to "motherese" speech can be used as a biomarker for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). UC San Diego scientists developed a new eye-tracking test to measure it, which can accurately identify toddlers with a subtype of ASD.

Novel Leukemia Treatment Puts Patient in Remission and Allows Him to Live Fully

A novel drug combination for leukemia, pioneered at UC San Diego Health, provides patients with a better treatment option that results in less side effects and can put patients in remission.

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Transforming Transplantation

UC San Diego Health's Center for Transplantation is among the nation's best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.

Training Individuals to Work in their Communities to Reduce Health Disparities

Community health workers training program aims to increase access to health care services in underserved neighborhoods

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Don’t Know CPR? There’s an App for That, Thanks to UC San Diego Health Doctor

A free Rescue Me CPR! app was created by UC San Diego Health’s Mark Greenberg, MD, as a tool to help combat the surge of opioid overdoses. The app uses videos and simple instructions to walk anyone through all the necessary steps to perform basic life support in real time.