UC Davis Health Professor of Internal Medicine Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola is tapped by Gov. Gavin Newsom to serve on a panel of prominent Californians to improve physical fitness and mental well-being of all residents.
Bile acids are important in lipid absorption and cholesterol balance in the blood. A new UC Davis Health study found that taking bile acids or treatments that regulate their production may help control inflammation caused by psoriasis, a chronic skin condition.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) often strikes when many families least expect it – after a child has recovered from COVID-19 infection. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, answers common questions about this life-threatening complication.
COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the Black population in the U.S., leading to more infections, hospitalizations and deaths, compared to the white population. Pediatrician Michael Lucien, associate medical director of the UC Davis Heath Community Physicians Group, shares his top 4 takeaways.
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.
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.
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