Amy M. Sitapati Named 2022 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award Recipient
April 13, 2022
UC San Diego Health physician recognized for her humanistic approach to medicine and delivery of care for patients and their families.
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UC San Diego Medical Center Named by Leapfrog as “2018 Top Teaching Hospital”
December 4, 2018
UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest was named a Top Teaching Hospital by The Leapfrog Group. The award is widely acknowledged as one of the most competitive honors that a U.S. hospital can receive.
Help UC San Diego Scientists Study Link between Body Bacteria and Autoimmune Diseases
August 23, 2017
The public’s help is being enlisted in the Microbiome Immunity Project, what’s thought to be the biggest study to date of the human microbiome — the communities of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the human body, where they influence our health.
HIV Prevention in a Pill
April 24, 2012
…understand the pathology of HIV/AIDS and the advent of antiretroviral drugs (prescribed in the early stages of infection) can often render HIV/AIDS a chronic but livable condition. Patients can live relatively normal, full lives for decades after diagnosis. Perhaps the greater challenge now is preventing HIV infection in the first…
Waiting with Ablated Breath: Is This the Cure for Ventricular Fibrillation?
April 4, 2019
Patients who suffer from VF live in constant fear of triggering a cardiac event, which can only be treated with an automated external defibrillator and which can become fatal in mere seconds. But a new procedure developed at UC San Diego Health is now presenting an alternative: a curative procedure.
San Diego to be Research Hub for New Human Vaccines Project
April 7, 2016
The University of California, San Diego, J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and The Scripps Research Institute have teamed up to create the “Mesa Consortium,” a new scientific hub for the Human Vaccines Project. Under a collaborative agreement, the Mesa Consortium and the Human Vaccine…
High Rates of Violence, HIV Infection for Adolescents in Sex Trade on U.S.-Mexico Border
August 4, 2015
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that more than one in four female sex workers in two Mexican cities on the U.S. border entered the sex trade younger than age 18; one in eight before their 16th birthday. These women were more than three times…
UC San Diego Awarded $38 Million USAID Grant to Improve Global Health Equity
March 14, 2022
The U.S. Agency for International Development has funded a $38 million, five-year project led by UC San Diego researchers to better understand and promote health agency for individuals, communities and local organizations in low- and middle-income countries.
Newly Discovered HIV Genome Modification May Put a Twist on Vaccine and Drug Design
February 22, 2016
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that HIV infection of human immune cells triggers a massive increase in methylation, a chemical modification, to both human and viral RNA, aiding replication of the virus. The study, published February 22, 2016 in Nature Microbiology, identifies a…
An HIV Prevention Pill for Transgender Persons
April 26, 2016
The California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) of University of California has awarded grants totaling $9.4 million to three teams of investigators to provide and evaluate PrEP – the HIV prevention pill – among transgender persons at risk for HIV acquisition in California.
