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Is Guided Self-Help Effective in Treating Childhood Obesity

It is known that family-based treatment that combines nutrition and exercise education, along with behavior modification, is a good approach to help children lose weight.  But clinic-based weight-control programs for childhood obesity are not accessible to many families, due to issues such as cost or time commitment. Initial studies at the University of California, San [...]

Women’s Wellness Day, Free to the Public on Saturday, April 13

Cheryl Saenz, MD, and colleagues invite you to Women’s Wellness Day on April 13. On Saturday, April 13 from 8 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., UC San Diego Health System is hosting an interactive conference in La Jolla, focused on women’s health.  The event is free and open to the public. Fifteen leading experts will host [...]

Pinning Down the Pain

Schwann cell protein plays major role in neuropathic pain Schwann cells (colored purple) forming myelin sheathes (green) around axons (brown). Image courtesy of David Furness, Wellcome Images. An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, says a key protein in Schwann cells performs a critical, [...]

Halftime Heroes

Drug Designed and Developed at UC San Diego School of Medicine Anne Wallace MD, chief of plastic surgery, UC San Diego Health System Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent [...]

New Imaging Agent Enables Better Cancer Detection, More Accurate Staging

Drug Designed and Developed at UC San Diego School of Medicine Anne Wallace MD, chief of plastic surgery, UC San Diego Health System Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a new imaging dye, designed and developed at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, is an effective agent [...]

UC San Diego Health System Listed among Nation’s Top Neurosurgery and Spine Programs

More than 30 neurosurgeons at UC San Diego Health System are dedicated to the care of complex neurological diseases. University of California, San Diego Health System has been named among “100 Hospitals with Great Neurosurgery and Spine Programs” by Becker’s Hospital Review, a news publication for hospital and health system leadership. According to the Becker’s [...]

No Sons Linked to Lower Contraception Use in Nepal

While poverty and under-education continue to dampen contraception use in Nepal, exacerbating the country’s efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rates, researchers say another, more surprising factor may be more intractable: Deeply held cultural preferences for sons over daughters. Writing in the March 7, 2013 online International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, scientists from [...]

Drug Treatment Corrects Autism Symptoms in Mouse Model

An old drug gives hope for new treatment in autism Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have used a newly discovered function of an old drug to restore cell communications in a mouse model of autism, reversing symptoms of the [...]

Genomic “Hotspots” Offer Clues to Causes of Autism, Other Disorders

An international team, led by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has discovered that “random” mutations in the genome are not quite so random after all. Their study, to be published in the journal Cell on December 21, shows that the DNA sequence in some regions of the human genome [...]

Small, Portable Sensors Allow Users to Monitor Exposure to Pollution on Their Smart Phones

The CitiSense sensors transmit their air quality readings to smart phones. More pictures of the sensor and its smart phone interface can be found here. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a small fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality in real time on their [...]

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