Seth Blumberg, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, is clinical specialist in infectious disease, including Monkeypox. He offers insight in the recent outbreak in a Q&A.
A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections – gonorrhea, chlamydia, or syphilis – were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial.
Imani Clinic, a UC Davis School of Medicine student-run clinic that serves many African American patients, is offering a new service based on the community’s needs: It has launched an endocrine clinic to help underserved patients with diabetes care.
As cases of monkeypox continue to rise globally, this very rare infectious disease has hit home, with a number of cases of monkeypox reported in Sacramento County. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, answers questions about this disease.
UC Davis and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus received a $2.7 million grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse to screen hundreds of compounds to discover nonhallucinogenic treatments for substance use disorders.
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