April 24, 2014
April 24, 2014 —
…and can identify a person’s voter registration status, it is allowing technology to be a really powerful tool to hold legislators accountable to their constituents…We hope to facilitate grassroots lobbying in an online format.” The first poll posted to the U-T San Diego website asked residents about an initiative that…
January 13, 2020
January 13, 2020 —
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified how THC from marijuana accelerates cancer growth in patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive head and neck cancer.
September 22, 2016
September 22, 2016 —
…gender diversity that supports personal wellbeing and development through educational initiatives, social events and personal support. In addition, Sixth College is home to the African Black Diaspora Living Learning Community. The mission of the housing community is to establish an environment of personal and academic excellence through the affirmation and…
May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017 —
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — a condition that can lead to liver cirrhosis and cancer — isn’t typically detected until well advanced. Even then, diagnosis requires a biopsy. To more easily detect NAFLD, UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators report that the microbial makeup of…
December 2, 2021
December 2, 2021 —
…of whom attended in person, were the only AMREE members able to make the summit from the expedition’s highest base camp. In fact, they became the ninth, tenth and eleventh Americans to summit Everest. But for a while, it looked like none of the expedition’s members would. “It was constant…
October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012 —
The physicians, surgeons and team members who pioneered the lifesaving pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) procedure at University of California, San Diego Health System are being honored for excellence at the annual CHEST conference, hosted by the American College of Chest Physicians, in Atlanta, October 20 to 25, 2012. The PTE program…
September 15, 2017
September 15, 2017 —
A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System analyzed published longitudinal studies of mortality in schizophrenia that met their strict research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio – a measure of the mortality rate in…
February 8, 2012
February 8, 2012 —
In its 15th year of benefiting the University of California, San Diego’s Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, the 2012 Heart of San Diego Gala on Saturday, Feb. 25 will be “An Affair to Remember,” honoring Emmy-winning producer of “Larry King Live,” Wendy Walker and founder and managing director of Eden Woods Investments,…
June 28, 2024
June 28, 2024 —
UC San Diego Health offers the only program in San Diego for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT), a condition that causes excessive bleeding.
July 19, 2017
July 19, 2017 —
Computer vision researchers from UC San Diego will have a major presence at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, which starts July 21 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Twenty papers on the agenda featuring at least one co-author, most of them affiliated with the Center for Visual Computing.