UC Davis Health Pediatric Emergency Physician Tiffani Johnson received the inaugural Minority Health, Equity and Inclusion Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for her contributions to advance health equity for underrepresented communities.
National Cancer Institute Director Ned Sharpless will highlight the progress this country is making in the cancer fight as he speaks at a virtual forum hosted by the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Grand Rounds is set for Nov. 30 at noon as is free and open to the…
UC Davis Children’s Hospital’s virtual holiday toy drive site is now live. Donate toward the purchase of toys, games, books and more that will be given to pediatric patients and their families during the holidays and throughout the year.
A recent UCSF study tested possible triggers of a common heart condition, including caffeine, sleep deprivation and sleeping on the left side, and found that only alcohol use was consistently associated with more episodes of heart arrhythmia.
Hoping to discover a new approach to treating depression, UCSF researchers looked at mitochondrial proteins and found that people with untreated depression have significantly lower levels of these proteins. New hypotheses emerge about the relationship between depression and the function of the brain’s energy-hungry neurons.
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