UC Davis Health has again been recognized in the 2022 Digital Health “Most Wired” program from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). The health system earned a certified level 10, the highest level, on both the acute and ambulatory care surveys.
I’m a 72-year-old man, and I was supposed to get a colonoscopy last year. I was surprised when my insurance company sent me an at-home kit to do a colon cancer screening. It was a lot easier than a colonoscopy, but my question is, can it be accurate?
Flu shot season can bring stress and anxiety for many children. UC Davis child life specialist Marisa Martinez helps children cope with painful procedures while they are in the hospital. She offers these six tips to parents and caregivers to make flu shot time less scary.
Adeola Oni-Orisan, medical anthropologist and family physician, joined UC Davis Health this month with the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She was simultaneously named a CAMPOS faculty scholar. Her focus is on Black maternal mortality and morbidity, where she seeks to explore how best to address incidents of racial…
As the potential winter surge approaches, about 80% of COVID patients hospitalized at UC Davis Medical Center are unvaccinated, proving the shot and boosters are highly effective at preventing serious illness.
The UC Davis MIND Institute’s Fall Festival last weekend attracted hundreds of families and featured a trunk-or-treat and resource booths. It was the first walk-through event since 2019 and was a great event for children with fragile X syndrome, ADHD and autism.
The University of California San Diego will be one of multiple sites assessing the safety and efficacy of tecovirimat as a potential treatment for human monkeypox. Marketed as TPOXX, tecovirimat is an antiviral currently approved for treatment of human smallpox in adults and children caused by the...
The University of California San Diego will be one of multiple sites assessing the safety and efficacy of tecovirimat as a potential treatment for human monkeypox.
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