News From Around the System

Genetic Testing Cost Effective for Newly Diagnosed GIST

Spinal Cord Stimulation Reduces Pain and Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease Patients

In study, 15 patients with long-term PD and chronic pain and mobility impairment showed improvements across multiple measures

Finding a cure for multiple sclerosis

Seema Tiwari-Woodruff, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UCR School of Medicine, and her colleagues have received a grant of $373,000 from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for a project in which her lab will select the five best candidate compounds to speed up nerve impulses, a promising new…

Talking Alone: Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Loneliness

A team led by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has used artificial intelligence technologies to analyze natural language patterns to discern degrees of loneliness in older adults.

Talking Alone: Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Loneliness

New technologies help scientists better identify who is lonely and how older men and women differ in how they feel and express isolation

Statins Reduce COVID-19 Severity, Likely by Removing Cholesterol That Virus Uses to Infect

Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, UC San Diego researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection, while lab experiments uncovered a cellular mechanism that helps explain why.

Statins Reduce COVID-19 Severity, Likely by Removing Cholesterol That Virus Uses to Infect

Analyzing anonymized patient medical records, UC San Diego researchers discovered that cholesterol-lowering statins reduced risk of severe COVID-19 infection, while lab experiments uncovered a cellular mechanism that helps explain why

Mission: Search and Destroy Prostate Cancer

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is using advanced imaging, genomics, personalized medicine and new therapies to treat patients like Brian McCloskey, who has stage IV prostate cancer.

Mission: Search and Destroy Prostate Cancer

Advances in imaging, genomics and new therapies have changed how UC San Diego Health treats prostate cancer

Introducing COVID19questions.org

A consortium of 12 health systems, led by UC San Diego Health, introduces COVID19questions.org, a site where clinicians, researchers, patients and the general public are invited to submit questions that could be answered by COVID-19 patient medical record data from 200+ hospitals.