UC San Diego Health First in Nation to Implant New Device for Chronic Back Pain
July 8, 2021
Treatment provides non-opiate alternative that is minimally invasive with emphasis on functional restoration.
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Major Contract Fuels Three-University Study of TMS for Treating Depression
February 22, 2022
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.
Philanthropists Ignite the Fight Against Cancer at SPARK Gala April 16
April 12, 2016
To rally the San Diego region in the fight against cancer, the University of California San Diego’s Moores Cancer Center will host its annual SPARK Gala on Saturday, April 16 at the Fairmont Grand Del Mar. The evening will include a three-course dinner with wine pairings, a live luxury auction…
Air Apparent: Using Bubbles to Reveal Fertility Problems
June 23, 2014
UC San Diego Health System’s doctors are the first fertility specialists in the county to use a new ultrasound technique to assess fallopian tubes by employing a mixture of saline and air bubbles that is less painful, avoids x-ray exposure and is more convenient to patients during an already vulnerable…
New Insights into 3D Genome Organization and Genetic Variability
February 18, 2015
While genomics is the study of all of the genes in a cell or organism, epigenomics is the study of all the genomic add-ons and changes that influence gene expression but aren’t encoded in the DNA sequence. A variety of new epigenomic information is now available in a collection of…
Cancer Avatars for Personalized Medicine
May 21, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have used computer simulations of cancer cells – cancer avatars – to identify drugs most likely to kill cancer cells isolated from patients’ brain tumors.
New Personalized Immunotherapy Trial Launched Despite COVID-19 Pandemic
December 10, 2020
…destroy his cancer. New Personalized Immunotherapy Trial Launched Despite COVID-19 Pandemic First patient to receive individualized TIL therapy undergoes treatment at Moores Cancer Center Since 2016, Bernard Thurman has undergone traditional treatments, experimental therapies and surgeries to counter the cancer within him, but nothing successfully eradicated the disease. Earlier this…
High R&D Isn’t Necessarily Why Drugs Are So Expensive
September 26, 2022
In the first known study of its type, an international team of researchers evaluated whether high research and development costs explain high drug prices in the United States. They found no such association for 60 new drugs approved from 2009 to 2018.
N Equals One: New Podcast Features Hot Topics in Health Sciences
March 10, 2016
…One alludes to truly personalized medicine, in which the experimental sample size (n) includes just one person—you. “We wanted to create a communications platform where science enthusiasts can listen, learn—and hopefully be entertained — at times when they can’t read or watch videos, for example while exercising or driving,” said…
Is the Next Big Step in Cancer Therapy Personalized Vaccines?
October 12, 2018
…Center at UC San Diego Health to test a personalized vaccine using her unique cancer mutations to boost an anti-tumor immune response.
