December 6, 2023
A new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Francisco estimates 152,753 excess infant deaths were attributable to living in flood-prone areas in Bangladesh over the past 30 years.
April 22, 2021
…the UC San Diego Health mobile vaccine clinic in City Heights. The Impact of COVID-19 on San Diego’s Refugee Community When COVID-19 officially became a pandemic in March 2020, the world and life as we knew it changed. Grocery store shelves emptied. Shelter-at-home orders were given. Fears about a previously…
June 17, 2014
In a further test of a novel theory that suggests autism is the consequence of abnormal cell communication, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that an almost century-old drug approved for treating sleeping sickness also restores normal cellular signaling in a mouse model of…
December 11, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found a genetic signature for delay discounting — the tendency to undervalue future rewards — that overlaps with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), smoking and weight.
August 5, 2018
New research in climate science indicates that extreme events, such as heat waves, the collapse of major ice sheets, and mass extinctions are becoming dramatically more probable. Though cuts in rising emissions appear unlikely with the stalled 2015 Paris agreement, University of California San Diego scientists argue that new developments…
April 16, 2024
A group of researchers based at UC San Diego and Rady Children’s Institute have advanced the understanding of how the cerebral cortex develops by tracing the lineage of certain brain cells.
May 21, 2020
…behavioral neuroscience and global health major Olivia Michael of Muir College has spearheaded a service project for the elderly. Because senior facilities no longer allow in-person visitors and have reduced programming due to the coronavirus, she wanted to help combat the feelings of loneliness the elderly may be experiencing in…
March 22, 2022
A UC San Diego pilot study on parents of mass shooting victims finds that eight weeks of mindfulness training is effective in reducing trauma, depression, stress and grief caused by gun violence.
April 27, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and three German universities describe an underlying biological basis for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, illustrating how efforts by the body to boost immune system protections can come at physiological cost elsewhere.
October 18, 2018
…Family Medicine and Public Health, participates in a health fair. Photo provided by UC San Diego Health Wertheim Family Foundation Pledges $25 Million Lead Gift to UC San Diego’s Public Health Initiative UC San Diego is also committing $25 million to the initiative, and hopes to raise an additional $50…
