Cancer survivors and their caretakers are invited to celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center on June 3. Enjoy food and refreshments along with informational booths and live music between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
UC Davis Medical Center’s Comprehensive Epilepsy Program has been accredited as a Level 4 center for adult and pediatric epilepsy by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC).
A study by UC Davis Family Medicine Physician Na’amah Razon identified multiple barriers that family physicians navigate to provide abortion services to their patients. The barriers include lack of physician training and federal, state and institutional restrictions on providing #MedicationAbortion.
A new UC Davis study shows that the way most health care providers currently ask people about their tobacco use is likely misclassifying 1 in 5 former smokers eligible for lung cancer screening. As a result, they are not getting the cessation counseling they need.
Two peregrine falcon chicks were banded by falcon experts from UC Santa Cruz near their nest on the roof of the UC Davis Medical Center. The metal leg bands provide researchers with valuable data on peregrine survival rates, dispersal distances, and population growth rates.
Nevan Krogan, PhD, director of UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute, examines in detail the effects of a handful of genes that seem to play an outsize role in a wide array of diseases.
‘They are definitely being utilized as a way to help patients relax and help with anxiety and agitation,’ says Shoni Taylor, a UCLA Health nurse specialist
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