July 5, 2018
Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have found that the cost for the 10 “highest spend” medications in Medicare Part D — the U.S. federal government’s primary prescription drug benefit for older citizens — rose almost one-third between 2011 and 2015,…
August 22, 2012
A study from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, published August 22 online by PLoS ONE, reports that muscle problems reported by patients taking statins were related to the strength or potency of the given cholesterol-lowering drugs.
May 1, 2014
…could potentially impact health care on Earth,” Rana said. The project that she is leading, for example, may shed light on potential new treatments for traumatic brain injury, glaucoma and “water on the brain.” Only one set of twins – astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly – has ever been to…
December 8, 2016
…and associate director of cardiovascular imaging for the Center for Translational Imaging and Precision Medicine. He earned his bioengineering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and his M.D. as part of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UC San Diego. After becoming…
May 2, 2023
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego, has developed a stretchable ultrasonic array that facilitates serial, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of tissues as deep as four centimeters below the surface of human skin, at a spatial resolution of 0.5 millimeters.
June 8, 2015
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and University College Dublin (UCD) have found that augmenting a naturally occurring molecule in the body can help protect against obesity-related diseases by reducing inflammation in the fat tissues. The study, published June 4 in the journal Cell Metabolism, focused…
April 1, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego have received new grants that will help develop full-body imaging techniques to detect inflammation, which is currently very difficult to visualize in the clinic.
September 27, 2012
Atherosclerosis has been presumed to be the consequence of complicated interactions between overabundant cholesterol and resulting inflammation in the heart and blood vessels. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at institutions across the country, say the relationship is not exactly what it appears,…
April 19, 2012
People with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NALFD) who consume alcohol in modest amounts – no more than one or two servings per day – are half as likely to develop hepatitis as non-drinkers with the same condition, reports a national team of scientists led by researchers at the University of…
January 21, 2021
…cake” to her stellar career at NASA. Meir said she’s still “basking in the glory” from her first mission to the International Space Station, from which she returned in April 2020. During the six-month mission, Meir fulfilled her lifelong dream of spacewalking when, quite famously, she and fellow astronaut Christina…
