A strain of tuberculosis called Mycobacterium bovis, associated more often with cattle than humans, is increasing in San Diego and is concentrated mostly in Hispanics of Mexican origin, according to a study conducted by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine in collaboration with San Diego County public health officials.
More than 30 years ago, Kenneth Lyons Jones, M.D., pediatrician and pioneering specialist in the study of birth defects, helped identify what is now commonly known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Now, Jones has received a grant from The Hartwell Foundation to examine another possible link: poor diet, pregnancy, and birth defects.
Across the United States, parents are invited to take their sons and daughters to work on April 24. In a hospital environment where patient privacy and safety are paramount, bringing loved ones to work isn't always possible, especially for an employee of an operating room. The staff at UC San Diego Medical Center devised a heartfelt solution.
In a new study published in the advanced online edition of the journal Nature on April 23, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reveal that a single protein is essential to both responses. This understanding may lead to new therapies to boost the body's immune function or to limit inflammatory damage in tissues deprived of oxygen.
Reduced levels of a hormone produced by fat cells and linked to the development of insulin resistance may also be related to a higher risk of kidney disease, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Thomas Jefferson University.
In a study that points to a new strategy for preventing or possibly reversing fibrosis "“ the scarring that can lead to organ and tissue damage "“ researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined that a molecule called Epac (Exchange protein activated by cAMP1), plays a key role in integrating the body's pro- and anti-fibrotic response.
The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded a $750,000 renewal grant to the Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.
A large, randomized drug trial has shown for the first time that statin drugs result in a modest, but significant, reduction in blood pressure, according to lead investigator Beatrice Golomb, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego's Statin Study.
A unique partnership between industry and academia has led to human clinical trials of a new drug for a rare class of blood diseases called myeloproliferative disorders (MPD), which are all driven by the same genetic mutation and can evolve into leukemia.
UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest celebrates the opening of an expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) designed for the 24-hour specialized care of premature infants and newborns with complications.
While investigating the tropical disease leptospirosis in the Peruvian Amazon, an infectious disease specialist from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has uncovered new, emerging bacteria that may be responsible for up to 40 percent of cases of the disease.
Experts no longer consider the family to be the cause of a young person's onset of anorexia; instead, the family is being looked to as a solution for this serious and potentially lethal disease.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, surgeons at UC San Diego Medical Center performed what is believed to be the country's first removal of a diseased appendix through the mouth. This clinical trial procedure received approval for a limited number of patients by UC San Diego's Institutional Review Board (IRB) which oversees clinical research.
In findings with the potential to provide a therapy for Alzheimer's disease patients where none now exist, a researcher at the University of California, San Diego and colleagues have demonstrated in mice a way to reduce the overproduction of a peptide associated with the disease.
When Joan Graves was a nurse at UCSD Medical Center more than fifteen years ago, a coworker promised to teach her how to crochet if she made 1,000 blankets for the babies in UCSD's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU.) Graves agreed and has crocheted hundreds of comforting bright-colored blankets for tiny "preemies" who eventually graduate from UCSD's NICU to their homes across San Diego.
A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows there is increasing evidence that high rates of illness in Persian Gulf War Veterans can be explained, in part, by exposure to certain chemicals, including pesticides and nerve agents.
A drug to treat a rare, inherited disease that causes rash, fever, chills and joint pain in patients when they are exposed to cold temperatures has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The therapy, ARCALYST(rilonacept), marketed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is based on a discovery by Hal Hoffman, M.D., associate professor of medicine at UCSD School of Medicine.
To help answer this question from a scientific perspective, a multidisciplinary group of researchers at the University of California, San Diego, along with colleagues at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, have established a center to formally explore the origins of humanity and the many facets of what makes us human.
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