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May 2017
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What Gives Your Life Meaning?
A couple of months ago, cryptic signs began appearing in the hospitals of UC San Diego Health. They read: WGYLM? Soon, they were followed by a fuller query: What Gives Your Life Meaning? And then by more signs: Have you told anyone? It was a social experiment designed to prompt health care employees and, through them, patients and their families, to think about advanced care planning and having the crucial conversations necessary to plan for the unexpected but inevitable. |
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Highs, Lows and Survivorship
For many patients, the cancer journey doesn’t end when treatment does. Survivors often find themselves at a crossroad, trying to navigate between their old life and new normal. Making sense of it all can be challenging, even for people familiar with the health care field. Nurse Cherie Smart found that enrolling in a survivorship program helped her transition from being a nurse to a patient and back again.
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Turning a Phage
UC San Diego Professor Tom Patterson was dying from a multidrug-resistant bacterial infection so colleagues, with help from many collaborators, tested a last-ditch experimental treatment using bacteriophages — viruses that eat bacteria. It worked and his case may help lead to new weapons against the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance. |
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Every Patient has a Playlist
There’s a lot of research showing that music is truly therapeutic, lowering blood pressure and slowing heart rate. Here’s our playlist of 19 heart-healthy songs we think mellow the mood and mend the muscle.
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Rise of Resistance
With the rise of antibiotic resistance and more severe infections, physicians are resorting to stronger intravenous antibiotic treatment, even in the home. Michelle Ritter, MD, an infectious disease specialist, explains what’s involved.
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Winning the Poo
Toxocara canis is a parasitical roundworm that causes disease in both humans and animals, mostly through exposure to eggs lurking in animal waste or contaminated soil. Most at risk are puppies and young children. Here are some simple tips to reduce chances of infection. |
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From routine doctor visits to the most advanced procedures, UC San Diego Health is here for you. We’ve got more than 1,400 physicians and scientists working to provide unparalleled patient care, now and in the future. We’re the #1 health care system in San Diego. Find out how to join UC San Diego Health by calling 800-926-8273. Have questions about your insurance? We can help there too. Just call 619-471-9393, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
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Matching Orders
Every year, at precisely the same moment across the country, graduating medical school students, including those at UC San Diego School of Medicine, simultaneously tear open envelopes to discover where they will do their residencies — and spend the first years of their careers as working doctors. It’s a moment of high drama, laughter and tears. |
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What’s Living on You?
We demonstrate how to get your microbiome sequenced by the American Gut Project at UC San Diego School of Medicine. Participants in this crowdsourced citizen science project learn about the bacteria and other microbes living in or on their bodies, and contribute that information to a database that allows researchers around the world to study potential links between our microbes, our lifestyle choices and, ultimately, our health. |
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Rx Comparison Shopping
Picking up a prescription medication is often a surprise: nobody tells you how much it’s going to cost before the pharmacist actually rings it up. Jonathan Watanabe, PharmD, PhD, at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, shares advice on finding the most effective drugs at the best prices.
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A new laser option for treating epilepsy; researchers create cellular model of anorexia nervosa; a new method for treating depression; birth weight is risk factor for fatty liver disease in children; what congenital Zika Syndrome looks like; genetic links to a progressive blinding eye disease; and how prenatal maternal infections may affect genetic factors in autism spectrum disorder.
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What’s the Deal with E-Cigs?
In this episode of our N Equals One podcast, we discuss e-cigarettes. What are they? Are they any better than traditional tobacco products? We also talk about the latest vaping research, recipe blogs and tips for making the habit a little less dangerous. Available on iTunes and SoundCloud.
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Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are the last and most important step before scientific discoveries can be delivered to patients in the form of new medicines and therapies. Each year, UC San Diego Health researchers and doctors, including those at Moores Cancer Center, conduct hundreds of such trials involving a vast array of diseases, disorders and conditions. Among studies currently recruiting participants are:
The light heart study: using daily white light for depressive symptoms
Impact of Combined Behavioral Interventions on Cognitive Outcomes in MCI (CBI)
Treating phantom limb pain using continuous peripheral nerve blocks
Naloxegol in cancer opioid-induced constipation
View additional trials, both at UC San Diego and across the nation.
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Corner Clinic: Answers from Our Experts
L-R: Alia Al-Tamimi, registered dietitian, Betty Garrity MPH, RDN, director, Anne Roberts, MD, division chief.
1. When is it appropriate to take a vitamin D supplement?
2. Is coconut oil really better than other oils?
3. What are some non-invasive ways of treating fibroid tumors?
Let Them Eat Brunch
Just in time for Mother’s and Father’s Day, a celebratory brunch has been added to the menu options for new mothers who deliver their babies at Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. Thanks to Rodney Fry, executive chef, new parents can enjoy healthier versions of several brunch favorites, including Fried Eggs Benedict, Vegetable Wellington, French toast and smoked salmon. But you don’t have to go to the hospital to enjoy the hospitality of a nice brunch — and some terrific recipes.
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