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Health Care Heroes: UC San Diego Nurses Pour Hearts into Caring for Patients with COVID-19

It’s 7 p.m. when Stephanie Lichtwardt, R.N., receives a call from her 10-year-old son. She’s nearing the end of a 12-hour shift in the intensive monitoring unit at UC San Diego Medical Center. She worries. He doesn’t normally call at this time. She picks up.

Introducing the UC San Diego Return to Learn Program

Program makes COVID-19 testing available to thousands of students in effort to track the novel coronavirus and better position the campus to resume in-person activities in the fall.

How are You Doing? Researchers Hope to Measure Well-Being at Global Scale

With website, UC San Diego School of Medicine scientists will monitor health and well-being during and after pandemic.

$55M NIH Grant Advances Clinical and Translational Research at UC San Diego

The Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute at University of California San Diego has received a five-year, $54.7 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

UC San Diego Health Offers Virtual Appointments to Patients with COVID-19

UC San Diego Health now offers a telemedicine clinic to help patients with COVID-19 recover at home.

Exercise Boosts Motor Skill Learning Via Changes in Brain’s Transmitters

Comparing the brains of mice that exercised with those that did not, UC San Diego researchers found that specific neurons switched their chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, following exercise, leading to improved learning for motor-skill acquisition.

Green Method Could Enable Hospitals to Produce Hydrogen Peroxide In House

A team of researchers has developed a portable, more environmentally friendly method to produce hydrogen peroxide. It could enable hospitals to make their own supply of the disinfectant on demand and at lower cost.

Clinical Trial to Investigate whether Hypertension Drug Ameliorates COVID-19 Severity

UC San Diego scientists have launched a clinical trial to investigate whether a drug approved for treating high blood pressure might also reduce the severity of COVID-19 infections, lowering rates for intensive care unit admissions, the use of mechanical ventilators and all-cause mortality.

First Results from NASA’s ICESat-2 Mission Map 16 Years of Melting Ice Sheets

In a new study published in the journal Science on April 30, scientists found that net loss of ice from Antarctica, along with Greenland’s shrinking ice sheet, has been responsible for 14 millimeters (0.55 inches) of sea-level rise to the global ocean since 2003.

UC San Diego Health Nationally Recognized with ‘A’ Grades for Safety

UC San Diego Health has been awarded double ‘A’ grades for the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade.