Cardiac Program Receives National Recognition for Treating Condition Often Undiagnosed
December 4, 2019
UC San Diego Health named a Center of Excellence for high quality of care in treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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Artificial Intelligence Tool Predicts Life Expectancy in Heart Failure Patients
November 13, 2019
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, as well as a diverse team of cardiologists and physicists, developed a machine learning algorithm to predict the life expectancy in heart failure patients.
Mother Delivers Baby, Develops Heart Disease
March 11, 2014
Three weeks after delivering her first child, Amanda began to suffer from extreme fatigue, headaches, a tight chest and stomach pain. An initial diagnosis of pneumonia changed for the worse: Amanda was experiencing heart failure. She was quickly transferred to UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center where a multidisciplinary team…
UC San Diego and Samsara Sciences Team Up to Advance Liver Tissue Models
January 14, 2016
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Samsara Sciences, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Organovo Holdings, Inc., have entered into an agreement focused on the development of techniques and methods for the isolation and characterization of liver cells that will help drive new research on liver…
‘A Tornado at the Front Door, a Tsunami at the Back Door’
January 23, 2020
…to a bone marrow transplant—the patient is both donor and recipient. “A bone marrow transplant can be very risky, especially when you take hematopoietic stem cells from a another person. In that case, there’s always the chance the donor’s immune cells will attack the recipient’s organs, so-called graft-versus-host disease,” Cherqui…
First in Nation: UC San Diego Health Offers Treatment for Hereditary Amyloidosis
August 18, 2022
New medication now available at UC San Diego Health allows for less frequent visits for patients, helping improve quality of life.
U.S. News & World Report: UC San Diego #1 for Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research
October 28, 2020
U.S. News & World Report named University of California San Diego School of Medicine a top global university and ranked the divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology #1 in the world for research.
Spotting the Earliest Signs of Type 1 Diabetic Kidney Disease
October 22, 2015
In an effort to pinpoint the earliest signs of diabetic kidney disease, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are leading a multi-institutional international effort dedicated to finding a new breed of disease indicators.
Two UC San Diego Scientists Receive Stem Cell Technology Grants
February 2, 2015
The governing board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded two University of California, San Diego researchers almost $3 million in combined funding to pursue new technologies intended to accelerate advances moving stem cell therapies out of the lab and into the clinic.
Transplanting Good Bacteria to Kill Staph
February 22, 2017
…growing good bacteria that produce antimicrobial peptides and successfully transplanting it to treat patients with the most common type of eczema, known as atopic dermatitis.
