New treatment offered at the Regional Burn Center at UC San Diego Health uses an applied synthetic skin substitute to encourage skin growth on burn wound, giving some patients the opportunity to be discharged same-day.
UC San Diego researchers describe how exposure to ambient air pollution, such as car exhaust and power plant emissions — is associated with a measurably greater risk of developing dementia over time.
UC San Diego is a hub for rare disease research. Although each rare disease impacts a small number of people, the research findings sometimes apply to more prevalent conditions.
When alumni Michaelle Jinette and Kevin Witt's fourth son Tristan was diagnosed with the rare KCNH1 genetic mutation, the couple raised money, collaborated with scientific partners, and initiated rare disease research on behalf of their child and the 50 others like him in the world.
Biological sciences professor Nick Spitzer reflects on 50 years of teaching, and an innovation award is launched in his name to support original scientific research by undergraduate students.
A new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine compared written responses from physicians with those from ChatGPT to real-world health questions. A panel of licensed healthcare professionals preferred ChatGPT’s responses 79% of the time.
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