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Jan 14, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Miles Martin
A partnership between Kick It California, a tobacco quitline operated by University of California San Diego, and local 211 information and referral agencies resulted in more than 55,000 new referrals for tobacco cessation services between 2021 and 2023, report researchers at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
medicalxpress.com | Miles Martin
A study analyzing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that past-year recreational ketamine use among adults has increased dramatically since 2015, including significant shifts in associations with depression and sociodemographic characteristics such as race, age and education status.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
The CHARM Network will leverage expertise from across the country to help the nation better prepare for respiratory virus outbreaks Published Date January 08, 2025 Article Content The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected University of California San Diego as one of three partner institutions to establish a groundbreaking pandemic preparedness initiative, the Community and Household Acute Respiratory Illness Monitoring (CHARM) Network. The new five-year cooperative...
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
Article Content A recent study analyzing data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that past-year recreational ketamine use among adults has increased dramatically since 2015, including significant shifts in associations with depression and sociodemographic characteristics such as race, age and education status.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
Study of malaria parasite genomes paves the way for new, more effective treatments Published Date December 09, 2024 Article Content Researchers at University of California San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance. The findings, published in Science, could help scientists use machine learning to predict antimalarial drug resistance and more effectively prioritize the most promising experimental...
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
Published Date December 02, 2024 Article Content Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, could help automate functional genomics research, which seeks to determine what genes do and how they interact. The most frequently-used approach in functional genomics, called gene set enrichment, aims to determine the function of experimentally-identified gene sets by comparing them to existing genomics...
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
The study found: Blocking the opioid system with naloxone inhibited meditation-based pain relief in men, suggesting that men rely on endogenous opioids to reduce pain. Naloxone increased meditation-based pain relief in women, suggesting that women rely on non-opioid mechanisms to reduce pain. In both men and women, people with chronic pain experienced more pain relief from meditation than healthy participants.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
The study found: Blocking the opioid system with naloxone inhibited meditation-based pain relief in men, suggesting that men rely on endogenous opioids to reduce pain. Naloxone increased meditation-based pain relief in women, suggesting that women rely on non-opioid mechanisms to reduce pain. In both men and women, people with chronic pain experienced more pain relief from meditation than healthy participants.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
phys.org | Miles Martin
Researchers at University of California San Diego have published new guidelines that could help scientists significantly improve their results when quantifying the interactions between DNA and proteins. Understanding these interactions is critical to our understanding of human biology in general, and can also help scientists develop new treatments for a wide range of diseases, including many cancers.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
today.ucsd.edu | Miles Martin
Published Date September 03, 2024 Article Content Valley fever is an emerging fungal disease in the western United States that most often causes flu-like symptoms, but can also cause dangerous or even deadly complications. By analyzing data on reported cases of Valley fever in California, which have increased dramatically over the last two decades, researchers from University of California San Diego and University of California, Berkeley, have identified seasonal patterns that could help...
