September 15, 2022
…scanned patients in a rehabilitation clinic in Lviv. The scans were sent to the cloud and then retrieved by the LIMBER team working in the Design and Innovation Building at UC San Diego. Manufacturing and delivering the prostheses Pelz and De Vivo used the scans to design custom prostheses, which…
May 11, 2016
Drug-related overdoses are the leading cause of injury-related deaths in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle accidents at 44,000 fatalities annually. In response, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have partnered with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to implement and study a program that requires…
June 9, 2016
…carry syringes and drug rehabilitation and HIV/AIDS medications are supposed to be free and freely available, reality is much different, according to Dr. Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga, a research project coordinator for Strathdee who also leads a group of volunteers who regularly visit the canal and its outskirts to treat residents for…
May 2, 2024
Robots that can assist physicians during surgery. Robots that can swim. Robots that can grip delicate objects. These were some of the demonstrations on display at Robosoft, the biggest conference in the field of soft robotics, in San Diego this year.
February 6, 2024
Pickleball: As America’s fastest-growing sport continues to soar so are injuries. UC San Diego Health physical therapists offer guidance to stay injury-free.
April 29, 2022
Trauma physicians at UC San Diego Health attribute the rise in injuries to a height increase of the border wall at U.S.-Mexico border.
October 22, 2020
In a recent study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine found a seventh component of wisdom: spirituality.
July 25, 2023
UC San Diego Health offers new minimally invasive sports medicine treatment to repair tendon overuse injuries.
January 18, 2018
Catherine M. Robertson, MD, has been named chief of Sports Medicine at UC San Diego Health. Robertson, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in treating injuries of the shoulder, knee and hip, will further enhance UC San Diego Health’s reputation for customizing innovative, evidenced-based care for all athletes — from…
October 22, 2015
UC San Diego officially opened its new Alex G. Spanos Athletic Performance Center Wednesday with several members of the Spanos family alongside many Triton student-athletes and coaches at the ribbon cutting ceremony.
