June 23, 2020
A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.
September 2, 2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine receives $2.6M to fund their PRIME-Health Equity program and launch a new program on Native American health. These medical education programs provide financial support to medical students interested in addressing health disparities and serving local communities.
August 10, 2022
A UC San Diego-led program that monitors wastewater for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 and which has effectively predicted subsequent surges in COVID-19 cases in San Diego has been expanded to detect the presence of monkeypox.
February 14, 2012
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in the United States. This form of heart attack kills 325,000 people every year, representing one death every two minutes. Almost all SCA victims die before they even reach a hospital.
October 25, 2018
…San Diego School of Medicine, would not give up hope. She had read about bacteriophages—viruses that specifically target bacteria, their name meaning “bacteria eaters—and she urged her colleagues in the School of Medicine to try them. It would be a first as a last resort. “To our knowledge, Tom was…
December 21, 2020
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine will expand a statewide program to prevent driving under the influence of alcohol, cannabis and prescription drugs.
October 15, 2020
…San Diego School of Medicine, SIM Center, headed by Preetham Suresh, M.D., with additional support by Alexander Norbash, M.D., and Atul Malhotra, M.D. Project Description: Govil served as the leader of Zephyr, a team of aspiring engineers at UC San Diego who worked to design a low cost emergency ventilation…
October 2, 2023
More than 100 UC San Diego Health Physicians named “Top Docs” in annual survey.
August 29, 2017
Laurel Riek, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California San Diego, will lead a three-year National Science Foundation (NSF) project on new methods for coordinating teams of robots and people in complex, uncertain environments.
November 12, 2020
…Araneta, professor of family medicine and public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “Your zip code is often a more important determinant of your health than your genetic code,” explained Maria Rosario (Happy) Araneta, professor of family medicine and public health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.…
