February 7, 2019
…is not limited to hospice care, a kind of palliative care that happens when a patient is no longer receiving treatment. Kestenbaum is referred to patients by doctors, and attends every consultation. She learns about their challenges—from pain to insomnia to anxiety—and creates a healing program that is consistent with…
October 17, 2019
New Precision Immunotherapy Therapy clinic at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health matches patients using genetic profiling to personalized cancer treatment plans.
April 22, 2019
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that treating patients with personalized precision medicine that combined therapies to target multiple alterations improved outcomes in patients with therapy resistant cancers.
October 17, 2019
…live…I was not in hospice care, but I’m sure I was inching that way based on the disease progression and how I was feeling.” For more than four years, Levine had endured numerous invasive surgeries, including removing parts of his colon, peritoneum (the membrane lining the abdominal cavity) and gall…
June 21, 2018
With microbial resistance to antibiotics growing into a major global health crisis, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with national research institutions and private industry, are leveraging hard-won expertise to exploit a natural viral enemy of pathogenic bacteria, creating North America’s first Center for…
March 14, 2016
Each year, at precisely the same moment, thousands of graduating medical school students across the country simultaneously tear open an envelope. Inside, there is a single sheet of paper and on it, a handful of words. Those words will inform each graduate where he or she will do their residencies,…
