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UC San Diego Health Maintains Top Quality Care Status by Vizient

UC San Diego Health ranks among the top academic medical centers for quality in Vizient’s 2024 Bernard A. Birnbaum Quality Leadership Award.

Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Fund Announces Five Inaugural Awardees

UC San Diego announced recipients of its inaugural Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Team Catalyst Fund, recognizing five groundbreaking research teams for their exceptional projects.

Four images of a bee colony studies, including hives in trees, city streets and a laboratory.

Clinical Trial Evaluates Spatial Computing App on Apple Vision Pro in Operating Room

UC San Diego Health is first in the nation to evaluate the potential use of spatial computing apps on Apple Vision Pro in the operating room.

UC San Diego Health surgeons performing surgery wearing Apple Vision Pros

UC San Diego Receives $10 Million for Center on Neurobiology in Changing Environments

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group has selected UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography to receive a four-year, $10 million grant to establish the Allen Discovery Center for Neurobiology in Changing Environments. The center’s goal will be to understand how climate change may impact the nervous systems and behavior of marine animals.

Students looking at marine life in a science aquarium at Scripps Oceanography

Brain Scans Reveal that Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Is Not a Placebo

Brain scans reveal that mindfulness meditation engages different neural pathways compared to placebo, demonstrating that pain relief from mindfulness meditation is not the result of the placebo effect.

At the Ready: A Day in the Life of a Trauma Surgeon

The trauma medical director at UC San Diego Health reflects on her career in observance of the 40th Anniversary of the San Diego County Trauma System.