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v=UC San Diego Health has renamed its head and neck cancer center for Hanna and Mark Gleiberman after the pair donated $12 million to research the disease, officials announced Thursday.

A small group of San Diego County nurses is being recognized with the President’s Award from the American Nurses Association of California.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are close to the lowest since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 both across the state of California and in San Diego County, according to state health data.

Hundreds of essential workers in Otay Mesa were vaccinated this week by a mobile site set up by UC San Diego Health.

Some San Diego County residents — frustrated with second-dose appointment cancellations at the Petco Park vaccination super station — have found another way to get that final shot.

The University of California San Diego is expected to vaccinate roughly 5,000 people daily at its new vaccination site on campus.

They wait in the cold, in the dark, sometimes for hours. After the vaccine super station at Petco Park is closed for the day, these so-called vaccine hunters stand in line, scrambling to get a leftover shot.

A difficult part of treating COVID-19 is dealing with isolation, especially in a hospital. Some San Diego County hospitals are accepting donations to help distract their patients who are by themselves sometimes for weeks on end battling the disease. All hospitals have restricted visitors due to the pandemic, which is why UC San Diego Health is collecting donations of new…

A new “Vaccination Super Station” near Petco Park is aiming to administer COVID-19 vaccines to 5,000 health care workers a day after it opens Monday.

California hospitals are facing increasingly difficult decisions about which services to postpone amid a crushing load of coronavirus patients

As the rollout of the Pfizer/BioNtech coronavirus vaccine continues in San Diego County and the rest of the country, Scripps Health is the next local health care group set to give the vaccine Thursday to frontline health care workers.

A UC San Diego doctor helping with San Diego County’s strategy to distribute the coronavirus vaccine felt a wave of emotion Tuesday as, finally, she saw some light at the end of the dark, long pandemic tunnel.

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…