Sowing Seeds of Compassion During Pandemic
Health & BehaviorUC San Diego Health nurse helps start farm that will provide free food to community in Mexico hurt by COVID-19.
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Q&A with Epidemiologist Cheryl Anderson on Contact Tracing
Health & BehaviorUC San Diego’s fall plan is continually evolving, informed by the university’s Return to Learn program. We invited students, faculty and staff to submit their questions about the overarching goal of the program, how contact tracing happens, what instructions are provided to those who may have been exposed and more.
Two Hearts Become One While Waiting for Another
Health & BehaviorUC San Diego Health has been ranked first in San Diego and sixth in California, placing it among the nation’s best hospitals, according to the 2020-2021 U.S. News & World Report.
Headline News: Botox Injections May Lessen Depression
Health & BehaviorBy analyzing the FDA database of adverse drug effects, UC San Diego researchers discovered that people who received Botox injections — not just in the forehead — reported depression significantly less often than patients undergoing different treatments for the same conditions.
UC San Diego Scientists Part of Special Package of Studies Describing Human Genome
Health & BehaviorResearchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine are among the contributors to a package of 10 studies in the journal Nature, describing the latest results from the ongoing Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project, a worldwide effort led by the NIH to understand how the human genome functions.
New fabrication method brings single-crystal perovskite devices closer to viability
Science & EnvironmentNanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material.
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