UC San Diego School of Medicine receives $2.6M to fund their PRIME-Health Equity program and launch a new program on Native American health. These medical education programs provide financial support to medical students interested in addressing health disparities and serving local communities.
From tele-monitoring patients with diabetes to using artificial intelligence to prevent sepsis, the newly launched Center for Health Innovation will seek to develop, test and commercialize technologies that make a real, measurable difference in the lives and wellbeing of patients.
‘In the Western world, we all want to wear stress as a badge of honor, but there’s not full awareness of the downsides,’ says UCLA Health psychiatry professor George Slavich
UC Riverside-led study in mice and human tissue is the first to show how a disease mutation weakens barrier properties of epithelial cells lining the gut
UC Davis Health Cardiologist Nayereh Pezeshkian discusses COVID-19, its impact on the heart, and the rare risk of developing heart complications after a COVID-19 vaccine.
Luis G. Carvajal-Carmona, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, has been selected as a fellow for the third cohort of the Presidential Leadership Academy by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
IN THE NEWS: Oncology Nursing News recognizes Christina Kirk, RN, AOCNP, as an Oncology Nursing Champion finalist. Kirk is a nurse practitioner with the UCI Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. “It’s a privilege, I feel very honored to be helping patients,” Kirk told Oncology Nursing News. Kirk chose her…