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04/30/2025

On Donor Remembrance Day, our transplant and hepatobiliary surgeons say thank you to the donors and their families whose selfless gifts give others a second chance at life. Your legacy lives on in every life saved. 💙

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04/29/2025

Join us to discover how Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is advancing cancer care through groundbreaking clinical trials — studies that test new ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer. Learn how this work is transforming treatment and offering hope to patients in our community and beyond.

- Learn how clinical trials work
- Debunk myths about research participation
- Hear survivor and clinician stories
- Discover breakthroughs in cancer treatment
- Meet the research experts
- Find out how to get involved

Tuesday, May 20 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Moores Cancer Center, Goldberg Auditorium. Register for free: addevent.com/event/IO25394040

04/28/2025

From cutting energy use to reducing waste and promoting green transportation, UC San Diego Health is proud to be leading the way in creating a healthier planet for all. 💚

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04/27/2025

Advancing lung cancer care across California. The University of California Lung Cancer Consortium is teaming up with AstraZeneca to expand the Healthy Lungs California initiative. This partnership means greater access to screenings, earlier diagnoses and more lives saved.

April 24, 2025 The University of California Lung Cancer Consortium and AstraZeneca announced a five-year partnership to expand the Healthy Lungs California initiative, which is aimed at increasing early lung cancer detection and reducing deaths from the disease. Addressing the early lung cancer dete...

04/26/2025

At UC San Diego Health, we're serving up more than just delicious meals — we're dishing out climate-friendly choices too. By sourcing locally and cutting back on carbon-heavy foods, we're reducing emissions while keeping nutrition and flavor at the forefront.

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UC San Diego achieved an impressive 35% per plate GHG emissions reduction and discovered $60,000 in savings when they leveraged the Coolfood Pledge and support from Practice Greenhealth to achieve their climate goals.

04/26/2025

Arjun Khanna, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery at UC San Diego School of Medicine and neurosurgeon at UC San Diego Health, uses a brand-new CT-based guidance system to perform a deep brain stimulus procedure on an awake patient with essential tremor.

Dr. Arjun Khanna is a highly skilled functional and stereotactic neurosurgeon specializing in the treatment of epilepsy, movement disorders, cranial nerve compression syndromes and pain syndromes.

He is an expert in advanced brain mapping techniques and uses cutting-edge technologies like robotics, laser ablations and deep brain stimulation to achieve optimal surgical outcomes and is committed to a personalized approach for each patient, focusing on improving their quality of life through precision surgery.

If you or a loved one is facing a neurological condition, you deserve compassionate, expert care. At the Neurological Institute at UC San Diego Health, we’re not only treating neurological disorders — we’re working to change the course of these diseases and improve lives every single day.

Ranked among the top 25 in the nation for neurology and neurosurgery by U.S. News & World Report, our team brings advanced treatments, leading-edge research and heartfelt support to every patient journey.

Let us help you take the next step toward healing: health.ucsd.edu/care/neurological/

04/25/2025

Hope is on the horizon for high blood pressure.

A new study led by researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine identified a potential new treatment, an investigational drug called lorundrostat, for people with uncontrolled hypertension or high blood pressure — a condition that affects millions and can lead to heart disease and stroke.

“This study was designed to look at the impact of a novel medication in lowering blood pressure for individuals whose hypertension is inadequately controlled by current standard medications,” said Michael Wilkinson, MD, principal investigator for the study at UC San Diego School of Medicine and cardiologist at UC San Diego Health.

Researchers with UC San Diego Health identify a potential new treatment for uncontrolled high blood pressure.

04/23/2025

When Joelle Pauporte, MD, was a young mother, doctor and patient with terminal breast cancer, she learned that no matter how sick, exhausted or overwhelmed she felt, she and her daughter found comfort sitting together and reading, she felt inspired to share this healing experience with other cancer patients, and that is how Light One Little Candle Foundation was born.

Light One Little Candle encourages parents or family members undergoing cancer treatment to bond with children through reading. The program gifts new children’s books to those who are undergoing treatment, helping families find comfort and connection during a difficult time.

Shirley Tulin, retired San Diego social worker, read about this program and thought it was a heart-felt way to help families heal. She introduced the concept to Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health in 2006.

Patients may each select a book to bring home to their family from the Light One Little Candle book cart. Patients and caregivers are encouraged to write notes about the story or the experience of reading together on a special Light One Little Candle bookplate pasted in the book, creating a keepsake for their children to turn to again and again.

The program is approaching two milestones, with almost 20 years at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and Tulin's 101st birthday in May.

"Light One Little Candle will be my legacy," said Tulin. "I am so proud that I brought the idea to Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health and that the program is still going strong. Every year I ask the residents of Pacific Regent Retirement Community to donate new books to the program. This way I can continue to feel useful and contribute to the community I love, even at almost 101 years old. I am grateful for my life. I am Mrs. Lucky and LOLC has been part of it."

Learn more about volunteer opportunities at UC San Diego Health: health.ucsd.edu/support/volunteer/

04/22/2025

Health care meets sustainability at UC San Diego Health. 🌍

From reducing emissions to rethinking food waste, our teams are leading the charge in creating a greener future, because a healthier planet means healthier people.

“The impacts of environmental pollution and climate change are directly tied to human health,” said Shira Abeles, MD, medical director of sustainability and infectious disease specialist at UC San Diego Health. “The well-being of our planet needs urgent attention; we can’t make people healthy on a sick planet.”

In this thoughtful Q&A, discover how we're weaving sustainability into the fabric of health care—caring for our patients and our planet, together.

In 2019, UC San Diego Health launched the region’s first, and only, health care program focused solely on sustainability.

04/21/2025

This Volunteer Week, we're shining a spotlight on the incredible volunteers who make a difference every day at UC San Diego Health and play an integral role in assisting our staff in their patient care activities.

Watch as volunteers share what inspires them to give their time — and the valuable skills and heartfelt rewards they gain along the way.

Thank you, volunteers, for giving your time and heart to our community. health.ucsd.edu/volunteer

04/19/2025

Every second counts when it comes to stroke. 🕐

That’s why UC San Diego Health offers expert, lifesaving stroke care for you and your loved ones 24/7.

As a certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, we deliver advanced treatments, from clot-busting therapies to specialized neurointensive care and surgeries, all backed by groundbreaking research and innovation.

Patients with a brain hemorrhage or stroke have better outcomes with fewer complications at a Comprehensive Stroke Center than at other hospitals. You deserve the highest level of expert, compassionate care: health.ucsd.edu/care/stroke-care/

If you need treatment for a stroke or want to prevent another one, you'll find the most comprehensive care at UC San Diego Health. We are a national leader in stroke treatment, prevention and research.

04/18/2025

At the UC San Diego Health Center for Airway, Voice and Swallowing, the care team goes the extra mile for patients.

Philips Weissman, MD, otolaryngologist, shares how our team comes together to support each person’s unique needs – with a thoughtful evaluation, personalized therapy and advanced surgery. We’re here to help you breathe easier, speak clearly and swallow comfortably – all in one welcoming place.

Learn how we can help you or someone you love with voice, airway and swallowing care: health.ucsd.edu/care/ent/voice-swallowing-disorders/

Otolaryngologist Philip Weissbrod, MD, explains how the Center of Excellence for Airway, Voice and Swallowing at UC San Diego Health goes the extra mile for...

04/18/2025

After more than 60 years apart, childhood friends Bob Wagoner and Glen Rasmussen were reunited through UC San Diego Health's heart transplant support group. Their shared experiences with heart health and transplant surgery brought them back together, proving that sometimes, life’s twists and turns lead to the most meaningful reunions.

Read their full story. 💙 ⬇️

At the Center for Transplantation at UC San Diego Health, you'll receive personalized care from the region’s top transplant surgeons and transplant specialists, who are with you every step of the way: health.ucsd.edu/transplant

Two patients who hadn’t seen each other for more than 60 years reunite at UC San Diego Health through a support group for heart transplant patients.

04/16/2025

Birds are known across many cultures as one of the most welcomed and visible signs of spring. They symbolize new beginnings — and in many traditions, they are also seen as messengers from loved ones who have passed. Their yearly return and songs bring a sense of peace and hope.

"Let Life Sing" is the 2025 Donate Life Month theme. This month is dedicated to raising awareness about organ, eye and tissue donation, while honoring the donors who have saved and healed lives.

At our hospitals and clinical spaces origami birds are displayed to celebrate the 172 donors through Lifesharing who saved 443 lives in 2024.

UC San Diego Health staff also showed their support for National Donate Life Month by wearing blue and green — the colors of the Donate Life logo, symbolizing the sky, the earth and the circle of life.

Learn more about our organ donation program: health.ucsd.edu/care/transplant-programs/