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A report published Wednesday by the UC San Diego School of Medicine found that older adults use cannabis primarily for medical purposes to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression.

In an effort to advance the diversity among its faculty, the University of California San Diego is recruiting to hire up to 12 new faculty members from underrepresented demographics, it announced Thursday.

Millions of people are using wearable technology to track fitness goals, and more and more of those devices are being used to track overall health. That’s a concern for one UC San Diego researcher who’s raising the alarm about some wearable device technology in the pipeline for FDA for approval. Dr. Peter Colvonen Ph.D. is a sleep and PTSD...

A possible COVID-19 outbreak at U.C. San Diego was thwarted by the university’s early warning program that tests wastewater, university officials claim. “Wastewater has been used for a long time in the infectious disease world for viruses that are shed in the gastrointestinal tract. It’s one of the ways we got polio eliminated, in a large part of the...

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers announced Tuesday they have discovered a carbohydrate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to latch onto a cellular molecule in the lungs, which has potential implications for treatment of COVID-19 patients.

The University of Calfornia San Diego is launching a voluntary pilot program that uses smart-phone technology designed to quickly notify participants if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19.

Parents and students spend thousands of dollars on college tuition. But if the student gets sick and has to withdraw, do they get reimbursed? Tuition insurance has become more popular as an option during the pandemic and some policies are making changes to cover COVID-19. College tuition is often non-refundable. So, is tuition insurance right for you? John Fees co-founded…

Before NASA’s first endeavor into space with a private rocket has even launched, the crew for its second joint NASA/SpaceX mission has been selected — and it includes an astronaut with San Diego ties. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna, will pilot SpaceX’s second Dragon flight to the International Space Station alongside...

A research team says it has developed a blood test that can detect certain forms of cancer in asymptomatic patients up to four years earlier than conventional methods, UC San Diego announced on Tuesday.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School Medicine are seeking 30 children from ages 7 to 14 with autism spectrum disorder to take participate in a study to determine if CBD could help in reducing behavioral symptoms.

Face masks. Doctors love them. Scientists love them. The stars of viral videos hate them. The coronavirus hates them, too, according to a recent study out of UC San Diego, CalTech, and Texas A&M. “Wearing masks is something that’s easy and is probably one of the single-most important known factors for helping to control transmission,” said UC San Diego Chemistry...

All UC San Diego students, faculty and staff returning to campus for the fall quarter will be asked to undergo recurring COVID-19 tests in an attempt to diminish the likelihood of a significant outbreak, the university announced this week.

UC San Diego’s pilot program “Return to Learn” has tested more than 1,500 students over the last three weeks and not a single student tested positive for COVID-19, the school said Monday. The school’s initial batch of students was the first step on its way to testing roughly 5,000 students who stayed on campus, according to UCSD officials. Since March,…

In a story May 18, 2020, about the University of California imposing salary freezes on some employees, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the UC is the country’s largest public higher education system

Two health workers at UC San Diego Health have tested positive for COVID-19, due to exposure and infection in the community, according to UC San Diego Health.

Drones will be buzzing when UC San Diego Health launches a delivery testing program next month that’ll use drones to transport medical samples. The pilot project will also test the use of drones for the purpose of transporting medical supplies and documents. Drones would be used between the Jacobs Medical Center and Moores Cancer Center, which are located about...

An international team of scientists, including scientists at UC San Diego, have synthetically engineered mosquitos that halt the transmission of the dengue virus. Biologists in UC San Diego Associates Professor Omar Akbari’s lab worked with colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in identifying a broad-spectrum human antibody for dengue suppression. The research team designed an antibody “cargo” to be...