News From Around the System

UC San Diego Partners with San Ysidro Health to Expand COVID-19 Testing

$5 million grant from National Institutes of Health will fund program to use expansive, new testing platform to assess and assist underserved communities hard-hit by the pandemic

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

Cross-cultural study finds a strong inverse correlation between loneliness and wisdom

UC San Diego Health Joins International Clinical Trial to Test Coronavirus Vaccine

Janssen trial will recruit up to 60,000 participants around the world to assess safety and efficacy of a single-dose vaccine to prevent COVID-19

Poor Cognitive Performance Predicts Impairment in Activities of Daily Living Years Later

Subtle differences in cognition may help identify individuals at risk for becoming dependent years later upon others to complete daily activities, such as managing medications or finances and other essential activities.

Poor Cognitive Performance Predicts Impairment in Activities of Daily Living Years Later

In study of older Latino caregivers, poorer performance in single cognitive testing was associated with impairments in daily activities seven years later

Lost in Transition: Sickle Cell Clinic Helps Adults Continue Care

Networking California for Sickle Cell Care Initiative supports expansion of San Diego’s only adult sickle cell disease clinic at UC San Diego Health which offers child-to-adult transition health services to patients like Vanessa Hughes.

Kawasaki Disease is not a Homogenous Disease nor are its Triggers

Researchers at UC San Diego report that while Kawasaki disease occurs in clusters, the traits, and thus the triggers of the inflammatory disease vary among clusters.

Lost in Transition: Sickle Cell Clinic Helps Adults Continue Care

State grant supports expansion of UC San Diego Health’s comprehensive sickle cell clinic

Kawasaki Disease is not a Homogenous Disease nor are its Triggers

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

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.