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.
Through a rigorous and coordinated infection prevention program, UC Davis Medical Center has achieved a strong record among hospitals nationwide for limiting the incidence of hospital-acquired infections.
The medical center's infection-prevention and control program is designed to protect patients, health-care workers and visitors. The program aims to thwart a variety of potential infections, including tuberculosis, influenza and infections caused by pathogens resistant to antibiotics. The surveillance program incorporates measures recommended by leading authorities, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and the Joint Commission.
A national problem
Each year, hospital-acquired infections in the United States sicken nearly two million people, killing about 99,000 of them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The most common health-care-associated infections are urinary tract infections (32 percent), surgical site infections (22 percent), pneumonia, (15 percent) and bloodstream infections (14 percent).
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advocacy arise from family’s burden
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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