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Health + Behavior
AI-POWERED PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM HELPS LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE
By: Katherine Connor | November 15, 2021 | UC San Diego Clinical trial data show tailored recommendations improve health outcomes November 15, 2021--Engineers at UC San Diego have developed an artificial intelligence platform that fuses data from disparate health and lifestyle sensors, wearables and apps into one site, using this combined data stream to paint a ... Continue Reading »
Too many firefighters are dying of cancer. UCLA’s Derek Urwin aims to change that
By: Stuart Wolpert | UC Los Angeles | November 22, 2021 They’re our modern-day superheroes — charging into burning buildings without hesitation, rescuing those in peril, staving off destruction. But in risking their lives for us, firefighters pay a heavy price, with cancer rates that far outpace the public at large. Derek Urwin, a longtime firefighter who ... Continue Reading »
UC San Diego Study: E-cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay Off Cigarettes
By: Yadira Galindo | UC San Diego | October 19, 2021 The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have suggested that smokers who are unable to quit smoking may benefit by switching from smoking cigarettes to vaping e-cigarettes if they switch completely and are able to avoid relapsing to cigarette smoking. However, there have been few studies on whether ... Continue Reading »
How to Double Voter Turnout and Increase Representation during Local Elections
Shifting off-cycle elections to on-cycle races has dramatic effects on the turnout and demographics of voters making their voices heard, new UC San Diego research shows By: Christine Clark | UC San Diego | August 20, 2021 Low and uneven turnout is a serious problem for local democracy. However, simply moving off-cycle, local elections to be held on the same day as ... Continue Reading »
How Adolescents Used Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Alcohol use declined, but use of nicotine and misuse of prescription drugs rose By: Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | August 24, 2021 The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in earnest in the United States in early 2020, affected different demographic groups in different ways. According to a new study, among adolescents ages 10 to 14 in the U.S., the overall rate of ... Continue Reading »
Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packaging Changes Perceptions
Smokers in a randomized clinical trial were more likely to recognize the negative consequences of tobacco and consider quitting By: Tadira Galindo | UC San Diego | August 4, 2021 Purchase a pack of cigarettes in Australia and be prepared to be accosted with graphic warning labels depicting the dangers of tobacco use — including images of gangrene of the foot, a newborn ... Continue Reading »
Obesity and Cardiovascular Factors Combine to Cause Cognitive Decline in Latinos
Obesity is a widespread health issue, but conditions like hypertension and cholesterol are stronger predictors of worsening brain function By: Dan Bennett and Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | July 28, 2021 Obesity is linked to several cardiometabolic abnormalities, such as high blood sugar and hypertension, which are considered to be risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. ... Continue Reading »
Scientists develop brain organoids with complex neural activity
By: Sarah C.P. Williams | UC Los Angeles | August 23, 2021 Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed brain organoids — 3D brain-like structures grown from human stem cells — that show organized waves of activity similar to those found in living human brains. Then, while studying ... Continue Reading »
Artificial Intelligence Could Be New Blueprint for Precision Drug Discovery
Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | July 12, 2021 Mathematical approach could transform drug development by searching for disease targets, then predicting if a drug will be successful Writing in the July 12, 2021 online issue of Nature Communications, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe a new approach that uses machine learning to ... Continue Reading »