UC San Diego Health receives “LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader” designation by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for policies and practices dedicated to the equitable treatment and inclusion of LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees.
Since at least 2015, a pair of peregrine falcons has called UC Davis Medical Center’s roof home and they have returned again this year. The falcon parents have already laid eggs and livestream viewers may be able to see chicks hatch in late April.
Half of all women experience a false positive mammogram after 10 years of annual breast cancer screening with 3D mammography, a UC Davis-led study estimates. This risk was lower for women who had mammograms every other year. 3D screening showed slightly lower false positive results than standard mammography.
UCI Health neuroscientists are testing a promising dopamine neuron stem-cell therapy to determine whether it reduces symptoms in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. In a first-in-human clinical trial, researchers are assessing the safety of dopamine-producing stem cells that are surgically implanted in the brain of patients whose Parkinson’s disease has…
In a Q&A, Hongwu Chen, the director of the Cancer Metabolism Initiative of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discussed how a special receptor protein (RORγ) impacts cancer growth and cholesterol synthesis. RORγ may be an effective target to treat cancer.
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