July 30, 2019
UC San Diego Health has been recognized among the nation’s best hospitals for 2019-20 by U.S. News & World Report. The annual “Best Hospitals” rankings are designed to assist patients and their doctors in making informed decisions about where to receive care for challenging health conditions.
July 22, 2024
San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.
October 10, 2019
…a viable alternative for sleeping pills among patients with chronic sleep disorders. “Sleeping pills are moderately safe but they can also be habit-forming and they do have side effects, particularly in older people,” said Grant. “Since many people are prescribed sleeping pills, there is good reason to look for something…
March 10, 2016
…each year, ranging from sleep studies and stem cell-based therapies to new ways to detect primary breast cancer and early stage Inflammatory Bowel Disease. It provides researchers and institutions with services such as trial design, data analysis and training, with doctoral and community outreach programs in bioinformatics, clinical psychology, communicative…
March 12, 2015
…a week. He would sleep for a few hours and then go to work. George was looking at an additional 2.5 years of dialysis before his turn could come up on the transplant list. “My family members were not a match for an organ donation,” said Martinez. “My friends that…
October 6, 2022
Facing extreme conditions such as starvation and stress, some bacterial cells enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Biologists have discovered how they assess environmental conditions for a return to life, carrying implications for evaluating life on Earth as well as other planets.
August 20, 2020
…and go back to sleep,” she said. In 2005, the San Diego resident was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, a genetic disorder that causes many fluid-filled cysts to grow in the kidneys. Unlike the harmless kidney cysts that can form later in life, PKD cysts can distort the shape of…
April 27, 2021
How do different parts of the brain communicate with each other during learning and memory formation? A study by researchers at UC San Diego takes a first step at answering this fundamental neuroscience question, thanks to a neural implant that monitors multiple brain regions at the same time.
November 26, 2018
Differential brain responses to speech in toddlers with autism and poor language development associated with widespread gene expression activity in blood leukocyte cells.
November 30, 2017
…covers everything from human sleep disorders and metabolic problems caused by shift work and jet lag, to understanding the way microorganisms such as bacteria regulate their internal biological clocks. Golden’s research in cyanobacteria focuses on how cells synchronize their clocks with the environmental cycle and how they are impacted for…
