UC San Diego Health has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification in Spine Surgery (ACSS) by meeting or exceeding the highest level of national performance standards. The Gold Seal represents a symbol of quality that reflects a health care...
I heard on the news about a study that says you won’t get as hungry if you eat all of your meals earlier in the day. Does that have to do with the way the body clock works? It seems like circadian rhythms affect everything we do. Can you talk…
The Society for the Blind has honored Mark J. Mannis with the Briggs Award for Excellence in Ophthalmology for his outstanding contributions to the field. Mannis is a distinguished professor and the Fosse Endowed Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science at UC Davis.
Veronica Hopkins’ first pregnancy ended in heartbreak, with a stillbirth at 23 weeks. Her second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 16 weeks. Then she decided to change her health care provider to UC Davis Health’s maternal-fetal medicine team for her best shot at motherhood.
As emergency departments across the country are overwhelmed by children with respiratory infections, UC Davis emergency physicians have recommendations for when you should take your child to the emergency room – and when you might not need to.
Orange, Calif. — The American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP®) has again recognized UCI Medical Center as one of 78 participating hospitals to achieve meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care. Hospitals participating in the ACS NSQIP program are required to track the outcomes of inpatient and…
Irvine, Calif. — UCI Health and the UCI Alpha Clinic have opened the first clinical trial to assess the safety and effectiveness of CYNK-001, a natural killer cell therapy, in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), the deadliest form of brain cancer. Natural killer (NK) cells, a type of white blood…
