$5 MILLION GRANT TO AID COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS FOR PUBLIC-HEALTH EMERGENCIES
September 28, 2007 —  UC Davis Health System is among five recipients nationwide of $5-million grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to improve hospitals' and communities' ability to prepare and respond to disasters and emergencies.

STEROID MEDICATIONS NOT EFFECTIVE IN TREATING LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN
July 25, 2007 — The use of steroid medication to treat bronchiolitis - a common viral lower respiratory infection in infants - does not prevent hospitalization or improve their respiratory symptoms, according to a study published in the July 26 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

USAID GRANT FUNDS UC DAVIS PARTNERSHIP TO IMPROVE TB DIAGNOSIS IN PAKISTAN
June 4, 2007 —  UC Davis and Pakistani researchers have received a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a better method for diagnosing tuberculosis that employs novel technology and is highly effective, affordable and portable, which will allow it to be deployed in remote, rural areas of the world.

HIV IN BREASTMILK KILLED BY FLASH-HEATING, NEW STUDY FINDS
May 21, 2007 —  A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California.

NEW TOOL HELPS ER DOCTORS DISTINGUISH CHILDREN WITH VIRAL MENINGITIS FROM THOSE WITH BACTERIAL MENINGITIS
January 2, 2007 —  A simple algorithm developed at Children's Hospital Boston and the University of California, Davis, Health System can help doctors rapidly distinguish infants and children with viral meningitis from those with bacterial meningitis — potentially reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and prolonged antibiotic treatment.

UC DAVIS STUDY FINDS HIV HIDING FROM DRUGS IN GUT, PREVENTING IMMUNE RECOVERY
July 29, 2006 — UC Davis researchers have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, is able to survive efforts to destroy it by hiding out in the mucosal tissues of the intestine. They also found that HIV continues to replicate in the gut mucosa, suppressing immune function in patients being treated with antiretroviral therapy-even when blood samples from the same individuals indicated the treatment was working.

UC DAVIS PHYSICIAN NAMED TO NATIONAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE COMMITTEE
January 18, 2006 — Former UC Davis School of Medicine Dean Joseph Silva has joined the ranks of expert civilian physicians and scientists serving on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, an 18-member committee providing advice to the Department of Defense on the prevention and control of diseases and injuries among military men and women.

'BIRD FLU' NEWS BRIEFING
September 26, 2005 —  UC Davis experts in human medicine, wildlife health and poultry health will offer a user-friendly media briefing on what bird flu is, why it is a danger to people, and what the university is doing both to prepare for and help prevent the spread of a serious strain of influenza in the state.