October 22, 2012
“A Mercedes Benz isn’t designed to function in the Sahara Desert,” notes Dr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer of the University of California, San Diego. “So why are we designing medical equipment for developing countries the same way we do for developed ones?”
October 26, 2021
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine tested the same treatment for kids with Kawasaki disease and rare COVID-19 reaction.
August 4, 2022
…and a School of Medicine effort to measure the impact of gender equity and empowerment within the field. “Research on campus remains expansive, exemplary and unparalleled,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “We continue to attempt what’s never been done in ways that inspire confidence and transformational investments from our nation’s…
August 19, 2024
…30 years, University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Student-Run Free Clinic Project has provided that comforting and familiar space for thousands of patients, medical students, physicians and volunteers.
January 25, 2018
School of Medicine Turns 50 1968 was an unforgettable year. North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive. Richard Nixon was elected president. The Beatles released the White Album. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. Upon hearing the news a few hours later, just as he was about to give a scheduled…
June 28, 2024
UC San Diego Health offers the only program in San Diego for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a condition that causes excessive bleeding.
June 11, 2020
…Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine (CALM) at UC San Diego Health was able to provide some of the first COVID-19 test results to Father Joe’s Villages’ homeless population. “Coordinating the logistics of external testing required significant work, but it was worth every minute,” said Beifus. “From employees in the lab…
July 30, 2020
The UC San Diego Library, which is ranked among the nation’s top 25 public academic libraries, announced the 2020 recipients of the Undergraduate Library Research Prize (ULRP), an annual scholarship program that enriches the undergraduate student experience at UC San Diego.
April 25, 2017
…San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD), Texas A&M University, a San Diego-based biotech and elsewhere, have successfully used an experimental therapy involving bacteriophages — viruses that target and consume specific strains of bacteria — to…
November 1, 2024
Throughout the day-long event, participants exchanged views on current issues in health and medicine, from addiction to hospital cybersecurity.
