UC Davis Health is celebrating Medical Laboratory Professionals Week by saying “thank you” to our behind-the-scenes heroes. Lab workers are an integral part of the medical team. Seventy percent of medical decisions depend on their work.
UC Davis Assistant Director of Development Michelle Thompson was honored with the Victoria Enmon Award. The award recognizes the efforts of program directors across the country to support the Extra Life program, a video game-based fundraising program for local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
The UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine has announced the appointment of Jose Joaquin Lado-Abeal as chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Lado-Abeal is an internist who specializes in thyroid diseases, diabetes and neuroendocrinology.
In 2001, three-year survival for UCSF patients who had undergone lung transplantation was 50 percent. In 2021, it had reached 90 percent. And over the last 20 years, median survival has climbed from 3.5 years to 11.5 years.
Orange, Calif., April 29, 2022 – Clinicians at the University of California, Irvine have launched a research study to examine how the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning can expedite the detection of stroke in diagnostic imaging, optimize clinical workflows for stroke care, and improve patient outcomes. Notably, the…
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report that high-frequency spinal cord stimulation proved more effective at improving perceived pain reduction than low-frequency SCS in patients studied, and that there was some variation in PPR between male and female patients.
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