“Information technology drives or supports many innovations in health care delivery today,” said Christopher Longhurst, MD, chief information officer and professor of medicine and pediatrics at UC San Diego Health. “Our operating rooms, intensive care units, imaging services, pharmacies, electronic medical records and telemedicine platforms all rely on medical-grade IT infrastructure. The Most Wired award is recognition that we are effectively and efficiently leveraging technology to advance health care.”
#healthIT #healthtechnology #healthcare #hospitals

“Our study suggests that adults with bulimia nervosa may have elevated reward-related brain activation in response to taste. This altered neural response may explain why these individuals tend to remain driven to eat even when not hungry,” said Alice V. Ely, PhD, principal author of the study in the Department of Psychiatry at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
#psychiatry #eatingdisorders #medicine #behavior 

After 12 weeks of taking an anti-asthma drug, a subset of patients with type 2 diabetes showed a clinically significant reduction in blood glucose during a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of Michigan researchers.

“Choosing the proper cancer treatment with the best chance of recovery and survival depends greatly upon accurately diagnosing the specific type or subtype of cancer,” said Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, founding director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine and co-director of biomaterials and tissue engineering at the Institute of Engineering in Medicine, both at UC San Diego School of Medicine. “If you can do that using a minimally invasive biopsy, it has significant implications for cancer science and medicine. Using DNA methylation markers may be a new and more effective a way forward.”
#cancer #dna #genetics

+NASA has selected Alan Hargens, PhD, professor of orthopedic surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine, to receive a 2017 Distinguished Public Service Medal. This is NASA's highest form of recognition for any non-government employee whose distinguished service, ability or vision has personally contributed to NASA's advancement of U.S. interests. Selection for this award means that Hargens’ achievements and contributions demonstrate a level of excellence that has made such a profound and lasting impact to NASA mission success that other forms of recognition by NASA would be inadequate: go.ucsd.edu/2sxew93 #space #orthopedics #astronauts #nasa


“Through this collaboration, we can be better equipped to find solutions for metabolic diseases that affect millions worldwide and are inadequately treated with current therapies,” said Jerrold Olefsky, MD, associate dean for scientific affairs at UC San Diego School of Medicine and professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
#diabetes #metabolicdisease #chronickidneydisease #liverdisease

Yesterday, more than 2,000 UC San Diego Health employees, families and friends came out to celebrate UC San Diego Health Day at Petco Park. This year marks UC San Diego Health's first season as the Official Health Care Provider for the +San Diego Padres, making it a very special day for all employees in attendance.
#letsgopadres #playball 

Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles is a common and critical component in successfully treating patients with brain tumors but it is also associated with significant adverse effects. In a new study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that irradiation can cause broader adverse effects, altering the structural network properties in impacted brains and perhaps contributing to delayed cognitive impairments observed in many patients following brain RT.
#braintumors #radiology #radiationtherapy #cancer

Lesions of the appendix are being over diagnosed as invasive cancer, report University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers in a paper published June 7 in the journal PLOS ONE.

The scientists found that originating pathologists were more likely to diagnose lesions of the appendix as adenocarcinoma compared to pathologists at a single referral academic medical center. Pathologists with less experience examining tumors of the appendix also had a difficult time diagnosing a tumor of the appendix known as low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasm (LAMN).
#cancer #pathology #appendicealcancer #diagnostics #healthandmedicine