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June 22, 2021Switching from Western diet to a balanced diet may reduce skin, joint inflammation
Diet rich in sugar and fat leads to disruption in the gut’s microbial culture and contributes to inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis. Research shows that switching to a more balanced diet restores the gut’s health and suppresses inflammation.
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April 19, 2021A behind-the-scenes department steps into the COVID-19 spotlight
In March 2020, UC Davis was in a race to create something that didn’t exist yet: a home-grown COVID-19 test. How the campus pulled together to help Pathology and Laboratory Medicine launch the first of over 100,000 COVID-19 tests this past year.
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September 20, 2019
All of Us Research Program enrolls more than 200,000 core participants nationwide
The California consortium, which includes UC Davis Health, just surpassed 23,000 core participants. Outreach efforts to roll out in Davis, Elk Grove and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center this October.
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August 14, 2019Mapping the brain landscape for Alzheimer's disease using artificial intelligence
A team of researchers lead by Brittany Dugger of UC Davis Health has been awarded a major grant from the National Institute for Aging (NIA) to help define the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease in individuals of Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican descent. The five-year grant will fund the first large-scale initiative to present a detailed description of brain manifestations of the Alzheimer's disease using artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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March 12, 2019Dementia looks different in brains of Hispanics
A major new study from the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Center has uncovered dramatic differences in the brains of Hispanics with a dementia diagnosis compared with those of non-Hispanic whites and of African Americans.
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