A new fund at the UC Davis MIND Institute aims to accelerate the movement of research discoveries from the lab into patient care. It’s the result of a generous donation and will leverage the institute’s collaborative interdisciplinary approach.
For decades aspirin has been used to prevent repeat heart attack and stroke, and prevent the initial occurrence of these events in high-risk people. Based on new research, the USPSTF has updated its recommendations on the use of aspirin for prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Cardiothoracic surgery resident Nataliya Bahatyrevich has become the latest UC Davis trainee to receive a prestigious T32 federal research grant. The award will allow her to spend a year in the laboratory and pursue a Master of Science in biomedical engineering at UC Davis
Nova and Nylah’s parents faced double the joy and double the concern upon their arrival. Both babies were born with multiple life-threatening challenges. The Barnes credit prayer, Facebook and UC Davis for helping their children survive.
UC Davis Health is recruiting people for a clinical trial, BrainGate2, with the goal of building a “neurological prosthesis” for restoring speech to people who have lost — or are losing — the ability to speak due to injuries like stroke or diseases like ALS.
UC San Diego Health is first in the nation to offer a new injectable medication to patients with nerve damage caused by hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis, a rare disease that can be fatal without management. Previously, patients with this systemic disease were tethered to long, intravenous...
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Outreach and Engagement helped create a national guidebook to assist educators, health care providers and policy makers increase the rate of HPV vaccinations by navigating the policy landscape more effectively.
UC Davis chief of fetal and pediatric surgery Shinjiro Hirose was appointed surgeon-in-chief of UC Davis Children’s Hospital. He has served as chief of pediatric surgery, vice chair of surgery and founder and director of the UC Davis Fetal Care and Treatment Center.
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