Has the news about an Australian woman with a living, wriggling roundworm in her brain got you spooked? After experiencing abdominal pain and night sweats that developed into forgetfulness and depression, the 64-year-old woman was sent to a hospital. An MRI scan did reveal something unusual in her brain, but…
More than 200 experts, community members, self-advocates, family members and more gathered to talk about inclusion at the MIND Institute’s Summer Institute last month.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first hospital in the West to administer a newly approved gene therapy to treat beta thalassemia with gene therapy, reducing the need for lifelong blood transfusions.
UC Davis Health is collaborating with DispatchHealth on a new urgent medical care at home program, which will provide patients same-day, in-home medical care.
Scott Fishman, a top expert in pain medicine, joins the prestigious NIH Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) at the invitation of HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.
An experimental medicine being tested at the UC Davis Eye Center uses gene therapy as a possible treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration or wet AMD.
MIND Institute Director Leonard Abbeduto has co-authored a paper in the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities that calls for a paradigm shift in disability research.
Scientist proved for the first time that kidney cells, housed in an implantable device functioning as an artificial kidney, can survive inside the body of an animal.
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