The National Football League is funding a novel clinical trial by UC San Diego researchers to assess whether cannabis or CBD provide any post-game pain relief caused by athletic injury. Trial participants will be professional rugby players.
A first-year medical student who is devoted to improving the health of the underserved in the U.S. and abroad has been selected as an Anne C. Carter Global Health Fellow by the American Medical Women’s Association.
For the first five months of Heidi’s life, the Carson family had no idea their daughter suffered from a rare congenital heart defect. Then she was airlifted to UC Davis Children’s Hospital where doctors noticed her enlarged heart was compressing her windpipe.
Byron Ford, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health, or NIH, to develop a new intervention against cerebral malaria.
Teens and young adults with cancer face psychological challenges that can lead to increased office visits and medical expenses. A new study indicates that early psychological care intervention can help to lower cost while providing support for young cancer patients.
A UCSF-led study found a new drug for ALS that shows to slow or temporarily stall the progression of ALS in a select group of patients, with three times as many patients' disease slowing compared to those who received a placebo.
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