Peter Torres, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Linguistics, studied how the opioid crisis is expressed linguistically in policies and medical interactions. His work just earned him the Linguistic Society of America Elizabeth Dayton Award.
Several students at UC Davis School of Medicine come from a military background. As Veteran’s Day approaches this week, one of them, Justin Choi, shares the parallels between serving his country and training to become a doctor.
‘Children are our future and if we don’t invest in them, we don’t have a shot,’ says UCLA Health’s Dr. Moira Szilagyi. For Moira Szilagyi, MD, PhD, FAAP, life has been a series of serendipitous moments. Case in point: During her residency at the University of Rochester, she happened to…
'I come from that perspective where education and being able to just do something else besides survival is a privilege,' says DGSOM student Kendra Arriaga-Castellanos.
Monoclonal antibody treatments have been shown to reduce COVID-19-related hospitalization or deaths in high-risk patients. But UC Davis Health infectious disease experts explain why they’re not a replacement for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The study also found that many felt that immigrants would be prevented from gaining legal U.S. immigration status if they used certain government benefits.
