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The Collaborative Clinical Trials Unit at UC San Diego has been selected to lead and administer an international seven-year, $28 million grant for HIV/AIDS clinical trials. The National Institutes of Health selected UCSD, along with other American, South African and Indian research hospitals, as part of its seven-year HIV/AIDS funding renewal. Every seven years, NIH competitively renews its funding...

UC San Diego Health officials say their campus COVID-19 contact tracing app has worked so well, their expanding user access to more than just students. Click here for instructions on how to download the app and sign up. Officials credit the app with helping to keep COVID-19 cases below 50 during the first month of classes. The app was originally…

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea shows how the app works.

University of California Health began a mothers’ milk bank operated by UC San Diego Health, located at the San Diego Blood Bank to help improve the lives of newborns, infants and their families, it was announced Thursday.

A report published Monday by a team of researchers, including some from UC San Diego, found that wearing a mask is unlikely to cause any issues with shortness of breath or otherwise diminish lung function.

Researchers at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine have found loneliness impacts age groups differently, peaking in the 20s and reaching its lowest point in the 60s, according to a study published Tuesday. According to the researchers, loneliness is a prevalent and serious public health problem impacting health, well-being and longevity. Seeking to develop effective interventions, the UCSD researchers...

A report published Wednesday by the UC San Diego School of Medicine found that older adults use cannabis primarily for medical purposes to treat a variety of common health conditions, including pain, sleep disturbances and psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and depression.

In an effort to advance the diversity among its faculty, the University of California San Diego is recruiting to hire up to 12 new faculty members from underrepresented demographics, it announced Thursday.

Monday marks the first day of school for the University of California, San Diego and while the majority of classes will be held online, some are being held in-person. For that reason, the university has been taking measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus among its student and staff population.

Preventative measure are in place at UC San Diego as students begin their Fall 2020 quarter. NBC 7’s Steven Luke has more details.

Millions of people are using wearable technology to track fitness goals, and more and more of those devices are being used to track overall health. That’s a concern for one UC San Diego researcher who’s raising the alarm about some wearable device technology in the pipeline for FDA for approval. Dr. Peter Colvonen Ph.D. is a sleep and PTSD...

Studies show wearable devices are becoming more popular in health care, so inaccuracies are more concerning. NBC 7’s Bridget Naso has the story.

Undergraduate students at UC San Diego will begin moving into on-campus housing this weekend – with many changes in order to follow COVID-19 guidelines.

Undergrad students at UC San Diego will begin moving onto campus Friday for the new school year. NBC 7’s Audra Stafford reports.

A possible COVID-19 outbreak at U.C. San Diego was thwarted by the university’s early warning program that tests wastewater, university officials claim. “Wastewater has been used for a long time in the infectious disease world for viruses that are shed in the gastrointestinal tract. It’s one of the ways we got polio eliminated, in a large part of the...

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming explains how the university did a little bit of dirty work to prevent thousands of students from contracting the coronavirus.

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers announced Tuesday they have discovered a carbohydrate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to latch onto a cellular molecule in the lungs, which has potential implications for treatment of COVID-19 patients.

The University of California San Diego was named the eighth-best public university in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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.