UC Davis Health researchers received a $1.05 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify risk and protective factors linked to the combined use of opioids and benzodiazepines, a group of drugs used to treat anxiety and insomnia.
UCSF Health’s Heart and Vascular Center is welcoming Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, as chief of its division of Interventional Cardiology and medical director of the division’s cardiac catheterization lab. Elmariah is a recognized expert in structural heart disease interventions and catheter-based valve therapies.
Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations. A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that lasted up to two weeks.
The new UCSF Rosenman Institute BUILD™ Heart Health program is designed as an 11-month cycle of fully funded fellowships aimed at training the next generation of health technology entrepreneurs.
National Advanced Practice Providers Week recognizes the more than 350 advanced practice providers, including certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and clinical nurse specialists at UC Davis Health.
UC Davis Health’s Department of Emergency Medicine believes all individuals have a right to health care – wherever they may be. Driven by that belief, Pranav Shetty recently traveled to Ukraine to provide needed medical and humanitarian aid to refugees.
PC-CARE, a UC Davis Health-based treatment program to improve caregiver-child relationships, has been added to the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare. The clearinghouse is a tool which identifies and disseminates evidence-based child welfare practices to improve child safety and promote child and family well-being.
The UC Davis Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department will host “Remembering Together: Virtual Bereavement Art Group,” focusing on grief and processing loss through self-expression and art for children next month.
A mortality prediction model for older adults with dementia may help physicians determine which treatments to provide while facilitating decision-making for patients and their families.
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