February 21, 2013
…the important goal of rehabilitation. Peer-to-Peer Over the ‘Sneakernet’ The team imagines KA Lite being useful in numerous scenarios. They can see it being downloaded at a school that has Internet connectivity and then being distributed locally to students who don’t have connections at home. They can see it being…
February 26, 2018
Led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, a diverse team of neuroscientists and surgeons successfully grafted human neural progenitor cells into rhesus monkeys with spinal cord injuries. The grafts not only survived, but grew hundreds of thousands of human axons and synapses, resulting in improved…
February 27, 2020
…Comprehension Lab. “There are rehabilitation perspectives, but there are also very interesting research perspectives, including in my area of language processing.” Working with Dan Grober, a graduate student in Palacci’s Materiali Molli Lab, Colin is studying the effect of activity injected from within by microscopic entities on the mechanical behavior…
August 13, 2024
A traumatic brain injury ended Caden Taffe’s ability to play football, yet he has channeled his talents into running hurdles.
May 20, 2021
…a dominating belief that rehabilitation was ineffective. In 1995, the now-debunked myth of law-breaking juvenile behavior predicting lifelong criminal activity was popularized. The notion of morally depraved youth prone to violence and incapable of remorse became a useful trope to justify ever harsher sentences for children. Now with a better…
May 21, 2020
…the only source of rehabilitation available to me.” The numbers Prior to COVID-19, video visits were used sparingly. UC San Diego Health had completed just 870 telehealth appointments in the preceding three-year period. But days before the state of California issued a stay-at-home ordinance, UC San Diego Health put in…
May 7, 2020
…Team of the Year Rehabilitation Care Partners Nurse Leader of the Year Cabiria "Bea" Lizarraga Medical Unit Advanced Practice of the Year Frann Teplick Nursing Education, Development and Research Marguerite Jackson Award Genesis Bojorquez Medical Unit It’s 7 p.m. when Stephanie Lichtwardt, R.N., receives a call from her 10-year-old son.…
October 3, 2019
…surgery, cancer care, cardiac rehabilitation, clinical trials, birthing options and more. UC San Diego Health is the region’s only academic health system, and includes both the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Since the university’s last economic impact report, outpatient visits…
May 2, 2023
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego, has developed a stretchable ultrasonic array that facilitates serial, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of tissues as deep as four centimeters below the surface of human skin, at a spatial resolution of 0.5 millimeters.
March 11, 2024
UC San Diego Health provides the most advanced neurological cancer care by combining leading-edge surgical techniques and the latest technology.
