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As a cancer survivor and former emergency department physician, La Jolla resident Carolyn Barber has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of the medical field.
Telemedicine nurse Joe Bautista collects favorite songs from coronavirus patients to help build rapport.
The district is taking the letters out of federally funded grocery boxes that it distributes to families in need.
His research helped lead to the Montreal Protocol, a treaty to repair the atmosphere.
“The mask is your first line of defense,” Kimberly Prather, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said during an Oct. 5 news conference about the need for clearer public health guidelines to combat the coronavirus.
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Few of the roughly 5,700 undergraduates who moved into UC San Diego dormitories over the previous 10 days tested positive for the coronavirus, the university said Sept. 30.
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County and city officials hope to have outdoor play structures reopened by this weekend.
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Occuspace monitors occupancy at libraries and other high-traffic areas, enabling students to check crowds via a mobile app.
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La Jolla pediatric office to pilot new childhood trauma screening, citing importance during COVID-19
La Jolla pediatric office to pilot new childhood trauma screening, citing importance during COVID-19
A La Jolla pediatric office is one of a select few to pilot a new screening and treatment program for adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, as a way to lessen the possible long-term negative health effects associated with them.
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UC San Diego Health is one of a dozen health systems worldwide that have formed a research consortium for doctors, researchers, patients and the general public to submit questions that could be answered by COVID-19 patient medical record data from 200-plus hospitals.
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A San Diego County woman alleges in a lawsuit that a local physician she consulted for fertility issues used his own sperm to artificially inseminate her, which was discovered only after her adult son took a DNA test decades later.
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La Jolla Shores Association sends letter to city opposing removal of UCSD deed restrictions The La Jolla Shores Association voted Oct. 14 to send a letter to city officials opposing the possible removal of deed restrictions on UC San Diego land.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
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Man held in kidnapping attempt is suspected of hate crime and battery A suspect in a possible kidnapping attempt in La Jolla on Oct. 14 also is suspected of a hate crime and battery.
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Thursday, Oct. 22 • The La Jolla Community Center’s online class “How to Zoom for Beginners Q&A” meets, 1 p.m. bit.ly/ljcchowtozoom Sunday, Oct. 25 • La Jolla Open Aire Market, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The immune system’s best chance at fighting off the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is to work as a single unified force, something that doesn’t happen as readily in older adults, according to a study by scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology.
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The Scripps Research Institute, which has a campus in La Jolla, has agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims that it improperly charged federal research grants for time researchers spent on non-grant-related activities, according to the U.S.
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British pharma giant AstraZeneca halted its trial to investigate whether its vaccine caused a participant’s illness.
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The letter notes that many universities have experienced coronavirus outbreaks when they opened dorms.
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A San Diego-based biotech firm that has co-founders from UC San Diego is working to develop and commercialize a minimally invasive method for early cancer detection and recently closed a $3 million seed financing round to further its results.
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UC San Diego will enroll a large, diverse group of area residents in a trial of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by researchers at Oxford University and British pharma giant AstraZeneca set to begin Tuesday, Sept. 8.
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Positive test results also were reported for 21 campus employees and 184 health staff and faculty members.
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The waters off San Diego are home to the two largest kelp forests on the West Coast, and both are being closely watched by local experts who are concerned about the effects of climate change on the underwater groves.
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California removed San Diego County from the state’s COVID-19 watch list Aug. 18, a county official confirmed.
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Some people who have never been exposed to the coronavirus may have protection against it, but that is far from certain.
