UC Irvine |
Med students have iPad, will travel
UC Irvine medical students are showing the world how technology can improve health care.
UC San Diego |
Using biomarkers to identify and treat schizophrenia
Researchers say lab-based tests may be a boon to both clinicians and researchers.
UC San Francisco |
Lower-nicotine cigarettes may help smokers quit
Smokers in study did not overcompensate for lower nicotine content.
UCLA |
UCLA heart transplant program performs 2,000th transplant
UCLA's program, founded in 1984, is the first in the western U.S. and only the second in the world to reach 2,000 transplants.
UC San Diego |
Tattoo electronics used to monitor newborns
Study will test whether bulky electronics could be replaced with a stamp-sized wearable patch of tiny circuits, sensors, and wireless transmitters.
UC San Francisco |
Hepatitis C — urgency to fight viral foe grows
Battle against disease waged in cities and suburbs.
UC San Diego |
How infectious disease may have shaped human origins
Genetic reaction to strep or E. coli could mark turning point in survival of ancient humans.
UC San Francisco |
UCSF ALS Center’s founding director dies of the disease he studied
Richard K. Olney, MD, founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF and a pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), has died at age 64, following his own eight-year battle with the disease.