10 Skin Cancer Myths
We’re in the waning days of summer. (Well, waning in most places. In San Diego, summer takes longer to set.) As of today, we’ve had 85 days of summer, most of them sunny. Hopefully, you took precautions. Hopefully, you already know the facts about the myths below. If not, a little UV-free illumination.

Breast Cancer Rehab
Surgery is usually prescribed after a breast cancer diagnosis but can come with side effects impacting mobility and quality of life. Resenia Collins, occupational therapist, talks about the benefits of rehabilitation to help patients safely return to daily activities from eating to combing their hair.

Split Decision
We are all of two minds. That is, our brains are comprised of matching hemispheres. Each half has different responsibilities. The right side controls the left side of the body and contains neural circuitry governing creative endeavors like imagination, music and intuition. The left side controls the right side of the body and manages analytic thought, language and number skills.

Sugar High
An estimated 29 million people in the United States live with diabetes, about nine percent of the population. From personalized care plans and medication combinations to nutrition and physical activity, learn approaches that will help you prevent or delay the long-term health consequences of diabetes, the nation’s seventh leading cause of death.

Older people have markedly better mental health than younger people; the Zika virus  may affect adult brain cells too; women who start menstruation and menopause later in life more likely to live longer; a neurological disorder offers insight into human social brain; aspirin versus blood thinners in atrial fibrillation patients; and increased physical activity worldwide has yet to really get up and go.

Zika Research Takes Off
In this episode, we talk to three researchers about all the latest Zika virus research that has emerged in just the past few months — proof that the virus causes microcephaly, a potential explanation for how that happens and new drug discovery efforts.

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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:

A Study of Avelumab In Combination With Other Cancer Immunotherapies In Advanced Malignancies (JAVELIN Medley)

Impact of Combined Behavioral Interventions on Cognitive Outcomes in MCI (CBI)

Study of Personalized Cancer Therapy to Determine Response and Toxicity

Randomized MMF Withdrawal in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) (ALE06)

View additional trials, both at UC San Diego and across the nation.

L-R: Janet Crow, Esmeralda McClean, Kathryn Macaulay.

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Come Kale or High Fiber

Vegetables like kale are often touted as superfoods, ultra-healthy additions to an everyday diet. But not everyone can eat kale (which also rhymes with ail) without considerable discomfort. Here are three recipes that, while lacking in kale, are just as super.

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