April 30, 2014
When Brayden Burge was 15 months old, his parents noticed a significant drop in his skills and a sudden increase in illness. Brayden was taken to the University of California, San Diego Health System and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease.
October 23, 2014
…Ryan Parks/UC San Diego Health Sciences Marketing and Communications Scientists Try Old Weapon Against Deadly New Target Developed at UC San Diego more than a decade ago, brincidofovir takes on Ebola With the Ebola crisis ongoing, much attention is focused upon finding a drug capable of slowing – if not…
April 18, 2016
Have you had the experience of being just on the verge of saying something when the phone rang? Did you then forget what it is you were going to say? A study of the brain’s electrical activity offers a new explanation of how that happens. Published in Nature Communications, the…
January 17, 2024
Sensors built with a new manufacturing approach are capable of recording activity deep within the brain from large populations of individual neurons–with a resolution of as few as one or two neurons–in humans as well as a range of animal models.
March 11, 2014
Three weeks after delivering her first child, Amanda began to suffer from extreme fatigue, headaches, a tight chest and stomach pain. An initial diagnosis of pneumonia changed for the worse: Amanda was experiencing heart failure. She was quickly transferred to UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center where a multidisciplinary team…
December 12, 2023
Inaugural chief health artificial intelligence officer joins UC San Diego Health.
October 20, 2016
…protein contributes to ALS by scrambling crucial cellular messaging systems.
February 22, 2018
…researchers at Shiley Eye Institute at UC San Diego Health and University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in China, Germany and Texas, have developed a new computational tool to screen patients with common but blinding retinal diseases, potentially speeding diagnoses and treatment.
November 29, 2011
…advanced laparoscopic skills. The system features seven procedures and 60 patient scenarios. “It’s essentially like a video game that helps you practice eye and hand coordination,” said Coker. “Different kinds of operations can be performed including bariatric and colon procedures as well as gynecologic and urologic surgery.” Surgeons who train…
September 14, 2020
UC San Diego Health continues to expand health care services by opening a new clinic located at 6030 Village Way in Pacific Highlands Ranch. The clinic offers primary care and women’s health services.
