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A New Strategy to Transform Liver Cancer Immunotherapy

UC San Diego researchers identify new strategy to improve efficacy of immunotherapy on resistant liver cancers.

UC San Diego Helps Expand Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative

UC San Diego School of Medicine partners with The Michael J. Fox Foundation on a clinical study to identify biomarkers of Parkinson’s disease. The study seeks to recruit 4,000 participants by the end of 2023.

Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?

Researchers report that an abbreviated, seven-item scale can help determine with high validity a person’s level of wisdom, a potentially modifiable personality trait that has been shown to have a strong association to well-being.

Developing Sex-specific Treatments for Heart Disease

As a heart fails, a woman's ventricular wall increases in thickness relative to a man's. And in heart valve disease, men show more calcified tissue growth, while women develop more fibrotic, scar-like tissue. Yet, treatments for both diseases remain strikingly similar for both men and women, despite the differences in disease progression.

Scott Lippman to Launch NCI’s PreCancer Genome Atlas

Scott Lippman, MD, will lead the PreCancer Genome Atlas, an NCI-sponsored effort to map premalignant lesions and how they evolve into invasive cancers.

Havacado or Two. Study Finds Eating Lots of the Fruit Hass Public Health Import

Novel randomized controlled trial found that families with high consumption of avocados experienced reduced caloric intake and an overall healthier diet, without actually changing their diet.