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Tumor-Activated Protein Promotes Cancer Spread
May 13, 2013

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 through... (More)

Higher Child Marriage Rates Associated with Higher Maternal and Infant Mortality
May 13, 2013

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. The study, by Anita Raj, PhD... (More)

Experts Provide Free Answers about Medications and More during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding As Mother's Day approaches, the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine announces MotherToBaby CA, the new name of its free, statewide counsel... (More)

UC San Diego Health System Receives National Achievement Award for Cancer Program
May 01, 2013

American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer Recognizes Quality Care 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 pro... (More)

UC San Diego Surgeon Part of Global Initiative to Improve Trauma Care
April 30, 2013

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 mid... (More)

Study Finds Women Who Drink Alcohol Before Pregnancy Less Likely To Take Multivitamins
April 30, 2013

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 bef... (More)

Boosting the Powers of Genomic Science
April 25, 2013

With two new methods, UC San Diego scientists hope to improve genome-wide association studies As scientists probe and parse the genetic bases of what makes a human a human (or one human different from another), and vigorously push for greater use o... (More)

Gone, But Not Forgotten
April 22, 2013

UC San Diego scientists recall EP, perhaps the world’s second-most famous amnesiac An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound ... (More)

A New Protein Target for Controlling Diabetes
April 11, 2013

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a previously unknown biological mechanism involved in the regulation of pancreatic islet beta cells, whose role is to produce and release insulin. The discover... (More)

Brain Imaging Studies Reveal Neurobiology of Eating Disorders
April 10, 2013

Current treatments for anorexia and bulimia nervosa, which afflict an estimated 10 to 24 million Americans, are often limited and ineffective. Patients relapse. They become chronically ill. They face a higher risk of dying. “A major reason contrib... (More)

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