IN THE NEWS: The number of deaths from excessive alcohol consumption in the U.S. rose 29% between 2016 and 2021, according to the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Charles Vega, a family medicine physician at UCI Health, writes in Medscape about formally screening patients for problem…
Orange, Calif. — A $50,000 gift to the UCI Health Family Health Centers in Santa Ana and Anaheim will enhance its efforts to support and educate individuals with diabetes. The gift from Hyundai Motor America will enable Orange County’s first and oldest Federally Qualified Health Center to convert an existing…
From caring for expectant parents through fertility treatment, pregnancy and delivery, to offering specialized treatment for babies weighing less than a pound in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), UC San Diego Health provides the highest standard of care for newborns and parents, which has...
Donald M. Bers, chair of the Department of Pharmacology, received an Honorary Fellowship from The Physiological Society, the group's highest honor presented to an individual.
UCSF scientists developed a way to deliver radiation just to cancerous cells, rather than attacking both cancerous and healthy tissue. The therapy combines a drug to mark the cancer cells for destruction and a radioactive antibody to kill them.
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized medical imaging. Here are four ways that AI is changing medicine in pictures - and the UCSF minds behind them.
Applications are being accepted for the fall 2025 class of Redwood SEED Scholars, an inclusive program at UC Davis for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
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