Engineers Take First Step Toward Flexible, Wearable, Tricoder-Like Device
May 23, 2016
…monitoring their workouts to physicians monitoring patients with heart disease.
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UC San Diego Health Revives Non-Beating Donor Heart for Successful Transplantation
September 15, 2020
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital on the West Coast to perform heart transplant surgery from a donor after circulatory death using a new portable organ care system. The investigational procedure could significantly decrease transplant waiting list times and improve patient outcomes.
Telehealth Visits Allow Patients to Connect to Care During COVID-19
May 21, 2020
…cardiologist, said patients with cardiovascular disease, especially those he sees who have undergone heart transplantation and are taking medications to suppress their immune system, also like that they can visit with their health care team through telehealth while reducing unnecessary public exposures. Twenty cardiovascular health care providers began using telehealth…
UC San Diego, Salk and Others Seek to Map the Human Brain Over a Lifetime
September 22, 2022
With a $126 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a multi-institution team of researchers at UC San Diego, Salk Institute and elsewhere has launched a new Center for Multiomic Human Brain Cell Atlas to describe human brain cells in unprecedented detail over a lifetime.
Existing Heart Failure Drug May Treat Potential COVID-19 Long-Hauler Symptom
February 15, 2021
UC San Diego clinical trial suggests ivabradine may be effective in treating postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a potential COVID-19 long-hauler symptom.
Stem Cell ‘Collaboratory’ Opens on UC San Diego Campus
December 6, 2011
…are suffering from degenerative diseases such as cancer, spinal cord injury and type 1 diabetes. “We don’t just give money away,” said T. Denny Sanford, the South Dakota businessman and philanthropist who pledged $30 million to the consortium that now bears his name. “People like Malin Burnham, Irwin Jacobs, John…
New Way of Fighting High Cholesterol Upends Assumptions
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,…
Four Common Antipsychotic Drugs Found to Lack Safety and Effectiveness in Older Adults
November 27, 2012
In older adults, antipsychotic drugs are commonly prescribed off-label for a number of disorders outside of their Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved indications – schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In a new study, four of the antipsychotics most commonly prescribed off label for use in patients over 40 were found to…
New Open-Access Book Casts Climate Change as a Public Health Crisis
May 14, 2020
Two University of California San Diego scientists co-edit an open-access book in which a unique mix of global religious leaders, scientists, and legislators present climate change as an immediate threat to public health, with COVID-19 serving as an example.
UC San Diego Announces Recipients of Chancellor’s and Revelle Medals
October 7, 2021
…to establish the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center at UC San Diego Health has revolutionized cardiovascular services and surgery at UC San Diego and across the region, impacting countless lives and catalyzing groundbreaking health care and research. Their involvement at UC San Diego runs deep: Richard Sulpizio is a member of the…
