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They aren’t firefighters. They aren’t even standing near the frontlines. Yet, a group of UC San Diego researchers have already helped fight more than a thousand vegetation fires in 2022.

A UC San Diego Health study released Friday found that since 2019, the number of high-severity injuries occurring at the U.S.- Mexico border wall in Southern San Diego has quintupled, which UCSD trauma physicians attribute to a height increase of the border wall.

Dr. Davey Smith, Head of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health at UCSD, says it’s possible we could need COVID vaccines and boosters for the rest of our lives as new variants keep emerging.

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, a UC San Diego and Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna who in April left Earth for a six-month stay at the International Space Station, didn’t let space stop her from getting her taco fix.

Officials identify an 18-year-old UCSD student who died after witnesses saw the student fall from an 8th-floor bathroom window of a dorm room while attending a party.

Child obesity soared during the pandemic, according to the CDC. And there are several reasons why many kids packed on the pounds.

A UC San Diego research team has discovered how a molecule on the outside of the SARS-Cov-2 spike protein acts as a “gate” for the virus that causes COVID-19 infection, which could help find a way to counter the virus; all that’s needed is a “key” to lock it, a new study says.

UC San Diego’s wastewater screening program detected 85% of COVID-19 cases on campus early, allowing for timely testing, contact tracing and isolation, it was announced Wednesday.

A team at UC San Diego School of Engineering is working to develop a sensor that would stick to your facemask and detect COVID-19 in your breath. “Just imagine you would have a roll of stickers. And as you head out in the day you put one of these on, you would breathe through it. And at the end of...

UC San Diego reported that 245 of its students have tested positive for COVID-19 since the winter quarter began on Jan. 4.

UC San Diego scientists reported Monday that increased ocean acidity is weakening California mussel shells along the Pacific Coast, a result of rising levels of human-produced carbon dioxide.

The winter quarter begins Monday at UC San Diego. Most students are still planning to attend online classes, but the university is slowly bringing more people on campus. The school is in the process of moving about 1,000 more students into campus housing. “I’m really looking forward to studying here instead of being home, especially because being at home can…

A panel of advisers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will have an emergency meeting Tuesday to talk about how the vaccine will be given out, and who should receive it first. Although some manufacturers have started stockpiling the vaccine, relatively speaking there won’t be a lot to go around, making that first wave critical. David...

A report published Monday by a team of researchers, including some from UC San Diego, found that wearing a mask is unlikely to cause any issues with shortness of breath or otherwise diminish lung function.

Scientists at UC San Diego and Scripps Research are using genome sequencing to track the spread of COVID-19 and identify the source of outbreaks in San Diego County and neighboring communities. Scripps Research professor Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., is one of the leading scientists behind the project. His team of researchers received a $2.5 million contract from the Centers for Disease…

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.

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.