News From Around the System

UCI Health doctors offer minimally-invasive treatment for early esophageal cancer

Hearts and Stripes: A Tiny Fish Offers Clues to Regenerating Damaged Cardiac Tissue

Zebrafish and mammals share key cellular features; researchers have identified how the former repair their damaged hearts and now wonder if humans might someday be able to do so, too

Paraguayan man with rare genetic disease on the road to recovery

UC San Diego Health Expands North for Primary Care Options

New Encinitas location offers pediatrics, family medicine and Express Care

UCI Health earns Blue Center Distinction for cardiac care from Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

UCI Health is pleased to announce that its cardiology program has been named a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. To earn a Blue Distinction Center for Cardiac Care, a medical center must provide a full range of inpatient cardiac care services…

Report Finds California Above National Average for Sexual Harassment Rates

Immigrant-born men; gay and lesbian Californians are also at increased risk

Hypertension Found in Children Exposed to Flower Pesticides

In Ecuador, roses for Mother’s Day sold around the world is major export crop, but pesticides used to grow and treat those flowers may be affecting health of children living nearby

Multiple Brain Regions Moderate and Link Depressive Mood and Pain

Early Life Exposure to Nicotine Alters Neurons, Predisposes Brain to Addiction Later in Life

In mouse study, neonatal exposure changed biochemistry of reward circuitry; researchers suggest same mechanism may be at work in humans

Zebrafish Help Researchers Explore Alternatives to Bone Marrow Donation

UC San Diego researchers discover new role for epidermal growth factor receptor in blood stem cell development, a crucial key to being able to generate them in the laboratory