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Pimple Secret Popped: How Fat Cells in the Skin Help Fight Acne

UC San Diego researchers discover a specific antimicrobial skin cell and the role it plays in acne development, which could result in more targeted treatment options.

Pandemic Upends Breast Cancer Diagnoses

UC San Diego Health researchers surveyed and compared early- and late-stage breast and colorectal cancer diagnoses in patients in pre-pandemic 2019 and in 2020, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, discovering fewer of the former and more of the latter as patients delayed care.

Remapping Atrial Fibrillation Treatment

New heart arrhythmia mapping technology debuts at UC San Diego Health.

HIV Incidence Rising Steeply Among People Who Inject Drugs in Tijuana

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have presented data that suggests a new HIV outbreak in Tijuana, Mexico, driven in part by “drug tourism” unabated by the closure of the international border due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alcohol Use Linked to Lower Connectivity in Brain Areas that Process Emotions

People at risk of developing alcohol use disorder show lower functional connectivity between brain regions involved in processing facial expressions. Future psychoeducation programs focused on improving social and emotional processing may help prevent alcohol use disorder.

Adoption of E-cigarettes for Smoking Cessation in 2017 Low and Ineffective

Smokers were not early adopters of high nicotine e-cigarettes as cessation aids despite the rapid growth of sales of these products in 2017, report Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego researchers.