Researchers at UCSF have confirmed that a different, long under-studied type of brain cell – astrocytes, named for their star-like shape – can influence how long and how deeply animals sleep.
UC Irvine researchers have developed a breakthrough device that prevents injury when kidney stones are treated through the ureter. In a clinical study of 200 kidney stone patients, the force-sensor instrument reduced the chance of ureteral injury — seen previously in as many as 23% of cases — to zero…
Almost 90 percent of infectious travelers could be detected with rapid SARS-CoV-2 tests at the airport, and most imported infections could be prevented with a combination of pre-travel testing and a five-day post-travel quarantine that would only lift with a negative test result, according to a computer simulation by UCSF…
A team of UC Davis Health doctors volunteered their time to immunize people experiencing homelessness near downtown Sacramento, the latest effort to protect vulnerable populations from COVID-19.
After months of waiting, graduating medical students finally learned which training programs they will attend for the next three to seven years on their path to becoming specialists.
A new UCI Health study reinforces the principle that “practice makes perfect” when it comes to complex gastrointestinal cancer surgery. Patients whose procedures for gastrointestinal malignancies were performed at a hospital ranked as one of America’s “best” by U.S. News & World Report were nearly two-and-a-half times more likely to…
Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus likely circulated undetected for two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019.
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