UC Davis Medical Center
When you participate in a clinical trial, you can play a more active role in your own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research.
May 13 — Laser Vision Correction Surgery Seminar, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at 77 Cadillac Drive, Sacramento. Meet the UC Davis refractive surgery team, who will help you determine if refractive surgery is right for you. For more information or to register, call (916) 734-6650.
May 27-30 — National Cancer Survivors Week: Join us for special events at UC Davis Cancer Center, 4501 "X" St., Sacramento. Space is limited, but free and open to the public with registration.
May 28 — UC Davis Plastic Surgery Seminar: Botox and Dermalfiller. Join Dr. Vik Reddy, a UC Davis certified plastic surgeon for a free informational seminar from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the UC Davis Plastic Surgery Clinic, 3301 C St., Suite 1100, Sacramento. Call (916) 734-7844, option 1 to reserve a seat.
Julie Moullet received a liver transplant at UC Davis Medical Center in 1997. Eleven years post transplant, Moullet has a new lease on life.
Liver transplantation may be the only treatment option left for patients with end-stage liver disease due to chronic conditions such as cirrhosis or liver cancer.
In the early stages, liver disease may be managed with medical treatments, but eventually patients may reach a point where a transplant is the only life-saving course of action.
The good news for Sacramento area residents who may need a liver transplant is that the UC Davis Transplant Center has been meeting the needs of liver transplant patients throughout Northern California since 1994.
“We have a team of highly trained and experienced physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals who provide a full range of transplant-related care, from initial evaluation to post-surgical follow-up,” said John McVicar, transplant surgeon and director of the Liver Transplant Program.
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Judy Roberson (at left) knows all too well why a cure, or even effective treatments, for Huntington’s disease (HD) must be found soon — very soon. Her family’s life depends on it.
The devastating effects of the disease altered her life and the lives of her four children forever. She lost her devoted husband, Tim, in 2003 at age 51 from HD, three years after his older brother, Joe, died at age 52 in 2000. The men’s mother died when she was only 55. In the Roberson family today, one member is ill from Huntington’s disease and 17 other family members are at risk of developing the hereditary, degenerative brain disorder for which there is only palliative care, but no cure.
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