Alternative Approach Uses Sound Waves to Treat Prostate Cancer (external site)
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego County to employ high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment.
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AI Predicts How Patients with Viral Infections, Including COVID-19, Will Fare (external site)
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers discovered gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections, providing a map to help define patients’ immune responses, measure disease severity, predict outcomes and test therapies — for current and future pandemics.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Care Now Accredited at UC San Diego Health (external site)
The Adult Congenital Heart Disease program at UC San Diego Health has received accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA) as a comprehensive care center, a first for San Diego.
Adding MS Drug to Targeted Cancer Therapy May Improve Glioblastoma Outcomes (external site)
The multiple sclerosis drug teriflunomide, paired with targeted cancer therapy, markedly shrinks patient-derived glioblastomas grown in mice by reaching stem cells at the tumor’s root, according to a new UC San Diego School of Medicine study published in Science Translational Medicine.
Active Surveillance Safe for African Americans with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer (external site)
Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center say active surveillance is safe for African American men with low-risk prostate cancer.
A New Way to Target Cancers Using 'Synthetic Lethality' (external site)
Researchers at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that inhibiting a key enzyme caused human cancer cells associated with two major types of breast and ovarian cancer to die and in mouse studies reduced tumor growth.
In the Media
What Happens to Testosterone When You Don’t Get Enough Sleep? We Have Some New Answers
Men's Health, August 10
How the top Magnet hospitals score on nurse communication
Becker's Hospital Review, August 12
AI decision support is scaling-up fast — can the evidence keep up?
Nature, August 13
UC San Diego Health, West Health launch $40M accelerator for ‘tech-forward’ coordinated care
Fierce Healthcare, August 12
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