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UC San Diego Joins National Trial to Explore New Vaccines for COVID-19 Variants

UC San Diego Health — April 6, 2022

UC San Diego has joined a Phase II clinical trial to evaluate various additional COVID-19 booster shots. The trial seeks to understand if different vaccine regimens can broaden immune responses in adults who already have received a primary vaccination series and a first booster shot.

Emergency Department earns accreditation for its care of older adults

UC Davis Health — April 5, 2022

The emergency department (ED) at UC Davis Medical Center joins only 21 other EDs in the nation that have achieved Level 1 Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation from the American College of Emergency Physicians. This is the highest level of the program that provides a standardized set of guidelines to improve…

Art Foster, who credits UC Davis Health’s geriatric emergency department for saving his life, sits at dining room table surrounded by family members

Employee inducted into Child Passenger Safety Hall of Fame

UC Davis Health — April 5, 2022

Cathy Morris, community health program supervisor with the UC Davis Trauma Prevention and Outreach Program, was recently inducted into the Child Passenger Safety Hall of Fame by the Manufacturers Alliance for Child Passenger Safety (MACPS).

Cathy Morris

School of Medicine students gain experience working on new study

UC Davis Health — April 5, 2022

School of Medicine students have gained experience conducting research on a study looking at spinal cord function. Researchers and medical students are working with patients diagnosed with degenerative cervical myelopathy to establish better tools for diagnosis.

Dr. Martin standing next to Khadija Soufi pointing at something

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