UC San Diego Health Sciences schools, institutes and centers are at the forefront of discovery and transformation.
Researchers from UC San Diego analyzed the latest data from one of the nation’s largest long-term studies of youth to better understand when substance use begins, how it changes during adolescence and which substances are most commonly used together.
UC San Diego researchers and their colleagues designed short strands of DNA to target protein production by disease-causing mutations, dramatically reducing seizures and sparking developmental gains, helping one teenager walk independently.
New statewide analysis reveals rising injury severity among e-bike riders, particularly children, highlighting urgent needs for safety education, infrastructure improvements and policy changes.
Few people had heard of cyclosporiasis a week ago. Now it's making headlines. As cases are reported in California, a parasitologist in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences explains what people should know, how the illness spreads and whether it's time to worry.
Partnerships between the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at University of California San Diego and local Native communities have helped create new pathways for cultural expression, public health education and community leadership.
For Parkinson's patients, the drug that restores movement can stop working reliably and cause involuntary movements of its own. A new candidate from UC San Diego-born biotech Sinopia Biosciences may fix both — boosting L-dopa's benefits while easing dyskinesia.
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