August 27, 2020
…“When we perform open-heart surgery, we use the heart-lung machine to stop the heart so we can treat the patient,” said Dr. Michael Madani, chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, and executive director of Cardiovascular Institute-Surgery at UC San Diego Health. “With PTE, we’re taking it one step further by…
August 27, 2024
A stroke recovery at UC San Diego Health allowed a patient to attend his son’s wedding just days later, highlighting hope and exceptional stroke care.
May 22, 2024
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable ultrasound patch that can offer continuous, non-invasive monitoring of blood flow in the brain. The soft and stretchy patch can be comfortably worn on the temple to provide three-dimensional data on cerebral blood flow—a first in wearable technology.
September 12, 2023
Marking a historic first for the University of California, Alexander Khalessi, MD, MBA, chair of neurological surgery, has assumed the presidency of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the leading academic society for neurosurgical professionals with more than 10,000 members worldwide.
May 23, 2017
The Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) at UC San Diego has announced team selections for its new technology accelerator. Five UC San Diego research teams, with innovations ranging from advanced healthcare diagnostics and medical device technologies to next generation LIDAR for autonomous-vehicle navigation, have been selected to join the…
August 2, 2023
New insights from UC San Diego researchers on pelvic floor muscle (PFM) dysfunction, which is one of the key risk factors for pelvic floor disorders that impact close to a quarter of women in the U.S. and have a strong association with vaginal childbirth.
April 25, 2022
Epilepsy treatment, and hopefully quality of life for one 18-year-old patient, receives robotic boost at UC San Diego Health.
October 9, 2024
El Centro Mayor, Sylvia Marroquin, shares her journey with kidney cancer and how a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health saved her life.
October 3, 2024
OxyLo, Personal.ai, Wild Genomics and AirSurgical were among 25 university-powered startups that took center stage at San Diego’s annual Innovation Day.
October 29, 2015
…the human body for minimally-invasive surgery. Photo by Michael Yip The future of robotics at UC San Diego “What’s powerful about the new Contextual Robotics Institute is having researchers with a whole spectrum of expertise working together,” said UC San Diego cognitive science professor Zhuowen Tu. Computer vision, artificial intelligence,…
