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From San Diego to Italy, Study Suggests Wisdom can Protect Against Loneliness

UC San Diego Health — September 28, 2020

Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and University of Rome La Sapienza examined middle-aged and older adults in San Diego and Cilento, Italy and found loneliness and wisdom had a strong negative correlation. The wiser the person, the less lonely they were.

Genetic Testing Cost Effective for Newly Diagnosed GIST

UC San Diego Health — September 28, 2020

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers reported that genetic testing is cost-effective and beneficial for newly diagnosed patients with metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a rare type of cancer.

Finding a cure for multiple sclerosis

UCR Health — September 28, 2020

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…

Seema Tiwari-Woodruff

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