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Alternative Approach Uses Sound Waves to Treat Prostate Cancer

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.

UC San Diego Receives $12.4M NIH Grant to Map the Human Nervous System

The National Institutes of Health have awarded UC San Diego a grant totaling $12.4 million. This will support a new research center dedicated to studying the human brain and central nervous system (CNS), specifically the ways they’re affected by HIV and opioids.

Major Contract Fuels Three-University Study of TMS for Treating Depression

UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.

UC San Diego Health: Excellence in Medication Safety, Pharmacy Practice

UC San Diego Health has become the first organization recognized as a Certified Center of Excellence in Medication-Use Safety and Pharmacy Practice by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

A Fish Story with a Human Tell

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and in Japan have used an ancient fish to reel in new insights about human biology and, in particular, how and why a widely used medication works to abort pregnancies (in people, not fish).

Willing Yourself Well

Mandy Berzak recalled recently asking her UC San Diego Health cardiologist whether she should wear a heart monitor, to make sure her heart didn’t beat too fast during the long-distance cycling events she took up with her husband, Harry, only a couple months after her second heart surgery.