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Receptivity to E-cigarette Ads among Young Adults in the U.S. Leads to Cigarette Smoking

Receptivity to advertising for e-cigarettes, cigarettes and cigars were confirmed to be associated with those who would try the respective tobacco product within one year. However, receptivity to e-cigarette advertising also independently increased the odds that 12- to 21-year-olds who have never smoked would try cigarette smoking within the next year by 60 percent. This finding, publishing in the March 26 issue of JAMA Pediatrics, was independent of receptivity to cigarette advertising.

Local Entrepreneur Donates $225K for UC San Diego Effort to Document Ancient Underwater Cave

The Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), based at the University of California San Diego, has received $225,000 from San Diego-based entrepreneur Brian Strauss to enable digital visualization technologies that make it possible to see cultural heritage sites and artifacts in entirely new ways -- like “the La Brea tar pits without the tar.”

UC San Diego Chemist Stirs Hope for a New Flu Treatment

Each year people all over the world die from the flu. To protect against influenza epidemics and their potentially mortal results, medical professionals encourage vaccination. While generally effective for healthy individuals, vaccinations are less effective for the elderly, the immunocompromised and other high-risk groups. For the healthy, getting a shot doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t get the flu since current vaccinations are not full-proof. But now there’s hope.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker Make me a Match

Each year, at precisely the same moment — 12 p.m. on the East coast, 9 a.m. on the West — thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. The single sheet of paper inside informs each graduate where he or she will do their residencies. This rite of passage for medical students will mark a new chapter in their already remarkable stories. Here are three.

UC San Diego Researchers Launch Combination Drug Trial to Eradicate B-Cell Malignancies

Fueled by a multimillion dollar grant from the state’s stem cell agency, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with local biotechnology company Oncternal Therapeutics, have launched a phase Ib/II clinical trial to evaluate the combined effectiveness of a standard of care drug with a novel monoclonal antibody that target B-cell malignancies, which include leukemias and lymphomas.

Scientists Construct Google-Earth-like Atlas of the Human Brain

Two neuroscientists have produced a new kind of atlas of the human brain that, they hope, can be eventually refined and improved to provide more detailed information about the organization and function of the human brain.

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Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Opens First Satellite Clinic in Linda Vista

Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Opens First Satellite Clinic in Linda Vista
Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Opens First Satellite Clinic in Linda Vista
UC San Diego Unites to Support Life-Saving Research

UC San Diego Unites to Support Life-Saving Research
UC San Diego Unites to Support Life-Saving Research
Slideshow: Hajam, Liu, Tsai in the Liu Labm Israni Biomedical Research Facility

Researchers Investigate How Staphylococcus Aureus Resists Vaccines
Slideshow: Hajam, Liu, Tsai in the Liu Labm Israni Biomedical Research Facility

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