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San Diego County may return to a more-restrictive purple tier on Tuesday as case rates continues to climb.

According to a new survey conducted by RAND Corporation, people over the age of 30 have been drinking more alcohol since the beginning of the pandemic. Researches found a particularly sudden spike in alcohol consumption in women.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado spoke with a psychiatrist who explains why women are the most impacted plus the warning signs to look out for.

The University of Calfornia San Diego is launching a voluntary pilot program that uses smart-phone technology designed to quickly notify participants if they’ve been exposed to COVID-19.

NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more details on the new pilot Google-Apple notification technology to help prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.

A new clinical trial at UC San Diego Health will investigate whether blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors will help patients infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health will launch a clinical trial to assess the safety and success of convalescent plasma (CP) to prevent COVID-19 after known…

Three Carmel Valley teenagers are channeling a flower to help their community. “When we did some research, we actually figured out that the gladiolus flower represents strength and empowerment,” said 16-year-old Sarah Mirsaidi. Mirsaidi teamed with her friends Lily Pfeizer and Kyra Wu to start the Gladiolus Project. “We’re trying to assist communities that are most affected by communicable...

NBC 7’s Joe Little shares the story of a group of inspiring teenagers supporting front-line health care workers.

The “Hot Zone” in the Coffey household is busier than the nearby workbench. It’s a small, taped-off section of Christanne Coffey’s garage where she takes off her face mask, her shoes, and her scrubs before heading inside her house to take a shower. Only then, after a long day in the emergency room at UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical...

Emergency rooms say yes, you should come in if you need help. NBC 7’s Joe Little has more.

The founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sent nearly half a million pieces of personal protective equipment to hospitals in the San Diego region, much of it expected to arrive this week, UC San Diego Health announced today.

Physicians and scientists at UC San Diego Health announced they began a pair of tests to find novel coronavirus antibodies. They are looking specifically at people who have previously been infected by SARS-CoV-2, the viral cause of COVID-19, even if they never experienced telltale symptoms. The effort will be overseen by the UC San Diego Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine,…

So far, the loss of smell and taste has only anecdotally been linked to COVID-19 but a new study conducted by researchers at UC San Diego Health shows the first correlation between sensory loss and the disease.

Research conducted at UC San Diego Health says patients with loss of smell and taste 10-times more likely to contract virus, reports NBC 7’s Artie Ojeda.

Researchers at the UC San Diego Health Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center announced today they had received a three-year, nearly $5 million award from NASA to develop and launch stem cell experiments aboard the International Space Station.

UC San Diego Health radiologists and other physicians are now using artificial intelligence to rapidly analyze lung imaging to detect for pneumonia — including cases impacting COVID-19 patients, the medical center announced Tuesday. For most patients who have died of COVID-19, the ultimate cause of death was pneumonia, a condition in which inflammation and fluid buildup make it difficult to…

Nurses at UC San Diego Health held a vigil on Sunday in remembrance of their colleagues worldwide who died treating coronavirus patients as they expressed concerns that without enough PPE, they, too, could lose their own lives.

Nurses at UC San Diego Health held a vigil to remember colleagues around the world who have died while treating COVID-19 patients.

UC San Diego and UC Davis are partnering with the state of California to help increase the number of coronavirus tests, Gov.Gavin Newsom announced Saturday. The governor said during his daily televised briefing, that officials have created a task force made up of private and public leaders with the goal to increase coronavirus testing samples. He promised at least...