February 11, 2021
…how the U.S. healthcare system functions, in practice, for disadvantaged groups. I published a book in 2020 that examines healthcare among low-income African Americans and explains how the healthcare experiences of study participants are different from common conceptions. For them, healthcare involves getting care through facilities like public hospitals and…
September 30, 2021
…of masks, campus ventilation systems have been optimized in residential and non-residential buildings across campus. In addition, all campus members will continue to have access to quick, self-administered COVID-19 test kits through 20 vending machines and drop-off locations across campus, as well as a testing clinic at Price Center and…
August 19, 2019
…the University of California system. His gift has supported cohorts of 50 undergraduates to pursue careers in clinical mental health services. UC San Diego Health: Cancer Vaccine Iris and Matthew Strauss Iris and Matthew Strauss hold a great deal of respect for the doctors at Moores Cancer Center at UC…
May 21, 2020
…conditions including a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s disease and even death.” She started UC San Diego Sunshine for Seniors, a campaign where students can design a card and nominate three others to do the same on Instagram with the hashtag #ucsdsunshine4seniors. All of the cards will be sent…
July 7, 2022
Scientists and physicians at UC San Diego and Scripps Research describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community — a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.
May 26, 2017
In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in…
February 17, 2022
…happens when the patient’s immune system generates antibodies against sugars called sialic acids in the serum. Varki wondered how that could possibly happen since every cell in the human body is already covered with sialic acid. “That’s when I got interested in what makes humans different, on a molecular level,”…
