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Tumor-Activated Protein Promotes Cancer Spread
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center report that cancers physically alter cells in the lymphatic system – a network of vessels that transports and stores immune cells...
5/13/2013 4:35 PM EDT
Higher Child Marriage Rates Associated with Higher Maternal and Infant Mortality
Countries in which girls are commonly married before the age of 18 have significantly higher rates of maternal and infant mortality, report researchers in the current online issue of the journal Violence Against Women.
5/13/2013 2:55 PM EDT
MotherToBaby CA Launched, Free Service to Moms
As Mother's Day approaches, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine announces MotherToBaby CA, the new name of its free, statewide counseling service that connects experts in the field of birth defects research with moms-to-be and...
5/8/2013 2:00 PM EDT
UC San Diego Health System Gets National Award for Cancer Program
UC San Diego Health System is a recipient of the 2012 Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer. Seventy-nine cancer care programs—three in California—received this national award based on...
5/1/2013 5:00 PM EDT
Surgeon Improving Trauma Care with Global Initiative
Raul Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS, is the only trauma surgeon in the western United States recently invited to be part of the Global Alliance for the Care of the Injured (GACI) – a World Health Organization initiative to improve trauma care in low and...
4/30/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Women Who Drink Before Pregnancy Less Likely To Take Multivitamins
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego Department of Pediatrics and Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego, a research affiliate of UC San Diego School of Medicine, have found a link between multivitamin use and alcohol consumption...
4/30/2013 12:00 PM EDT
Boosting the Powers of Genomic Science
In a pair of papers published in PLOS Genetics, two diverse teams of scientists, both headed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, describe novel statistical models that more broadly and deeply identify...
4/25/2013 5:30 PM EDT
Gone, but Not Forgotten
An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.
4/22/2013 3:30 PM EDT
UCSD Moores Cancer Center Experts Available to Speak About Angelina Jolie's Recent Surgery
5/14/2013 11:00 AM EDT
Expert Available to Discuss Incontinence, Prolapse
Many women suffer needlessly from urinary incontinence, uterine prolapse or vaginal wall prolapse. Dr. Nager believes that female urinary incontinence and pelvic prolapse are very treatable conditions. U.S. News & World Report has named Dr. Nager...
4/3/2013 3:00 PM EDT
Chief of Sports Medicine Available to Discuss Kevin Ware Injury
4/2/2013 2:30 PM EDT
Experts Ready to Tackle Super Bowl Injury Questions
1/31/2013 3:00 PM EST
UCSD Cancer Expert Disagrees with Recent MD Anderson Research
Catheryn Yashar, MD, radiation oncologist at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and a pioneer in breast brachytherapy is available to offer perspective on the effectiveness of breast brachytherapy – a shorter course of radiation treatment for...
5/2/2012 12:30 PM EDT
Brachytherapy Expert Available
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center expert available to discuss
controversial topic of breast brachytherapy.
4/10/2012 12:20 PM EDT
World AIDS Day Video with Leading Expert
In this video, Douglas Richman, MD, is professor of pathology and medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Florence Seeley Riford Chair in AIDS Research discusses the current status of HIV/AIDS research and what...
11/29/2011 8:00 AM EST
Experts Available to Comment on Jobs’ Pancreatic Cancer
UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center experts available to speak about Steve Jobs' rare form of pancreatic cancer, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.
10/6/2011 1:35 PM EDT