Study: AI Surveillance Tool Successfully Helps to Predict Sepsis, Saves Lives
January 23, 2024
Researchers with UC San Diego School of Medicine found that utilizing a unique AI algorithm to monitor several patient variables detected sepsis quicker.
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Large Study Reveals PTSD Has Strong Genetic Component Like Other Psychiatric Disorders
October 8, 2019
In the largest and most diverse genetic study of PTSD to date, scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine and more than 130 institutions in the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium found that genetics accounts for five to 20 percent of the variability in PTSD risk following a traumatic event.
UC San Diego Health Celebrates Inaugural Improvement Excellence Awards
July 20, 2023
The ceremony recognized the work of individuals and teams whose improvement projects made a positive impact for providers, staff and patients at UC San Diego Health.
Health Care Heroes: UC San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19
May 7, 2020
Health Care Heroes: UC San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19 Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers have worked around the clock to care for patients suffering from the effects of this new virus. Nurses, such as Stephanie Lichtwardt, have become like…
Toddler Experiences Second-Degree Burn, Goes Home Sooner with New Treatment
May 3, 2023
New treatment offered at the Regional Burn Center at UC San Diego Health uses an applied synthetic skin substitute to encourage skin growth on burn wound, giving some patients the opportunity to be discharged same-day.
UC San Diego Mexico Violence Resource Project Goes Beyond Cartels to Study Drug War
October 14, 2020
The Mexico Violence Resource Project—a new initiative from the University of California San Diego’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies—was recently launched to provide policymakers and journalists analysis and information to better understand the complicated escalation of violence in Mexico.
Reduced Heart Rate Variability May Indicate Greater Vulnerability to PTSD
September 10, 2015
…heartbeats – may be a contributing risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The findings are reported in the September 9 online issue of JAMA Psychiatry by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System.
Withdrawal from Psychostimulants Restructures Functional Architecture of Brain
September 27, 2021
Researchers describe how withdrawal from nicotine, methamphetamine and cocaine alters the functional architecture and patterns in the brains of mice, compared to control animals, a key to developing addiction treatments.
$25 Million Gift to UC San Diego Establishes the McGrath Outpatient Pavilion
December 5, 2023
The San Diego-based McGrath Family Foundation has pledged $25 million to support the new outpatient pavilion at UC San Diego Health – Hillcrest Medical Campus, slated to open in 2025. In recognition of the gift, the facility will be named the McGrath Family Foundation Outpatient Pavilion.
21 Years Old and Experiencing Stroke, Condition On the Rise among Young Adults
October 28, 2022
One in every eight strokes at UC San Diego Health occur in an adult younger than 50.
