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NEWS IN BRIEF
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Healthy aging summits win national award
An innovative program to improve the health of the elderly
in Sacramento's culturally diverse communities won a national award this spring from the American Society
on Aging...
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Death finds handgun buyers
Researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research
Program have found that, among people who die within three years of purchasing handguns, more than one-fifth
of the deaths result from gunshot wounds...
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Patients, doctors talk online
UC Davis Medical Group has implemented a special Web-based
messaging system that permits patients and doctors to essentially conduct an "office visit" online, improving
both communication and service...
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Instruction and permission in eye/brain development
UC Davis researchers reported in a spring issue of the journal
Science that neuronal activity in the eye permits eye-specific connections to the brain, contrary to the
conventional view of how connections form between the optic nerves and the brain...
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Grant targets minority youth
The Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care
at UC Davis Medical Center received a $1.1 million grant for a three-year joint study with the Health
Education Council of Sacramento to reduce substance abuse and HIV infection among minority youth in Sacramento
County...
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Celebration Gala for cancer research set
The fourth annual Celebration Gala benefiting UC Davis Cancer
Center research will be held Nov. 8 at the Radisson Hotel, Sacramento. Proceeds from the gala will help
support research into cancers that kill more than 50,000 Californians every year...
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Metastatic
prostate cancer: common, deadly, costly
Prostate cancer patients face a 27-percent developing metastatic
within seven years of diagnosis, according to research by investigators Davis Cancer Center and institutions
nationwide...
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New
cardiac cath suites
Heart problems that once required open-heart surgery are increasingly
being treated with minimally invasive techniques in cardiac catheterization labs...
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Hospital switches to digital x-ray
UC Davis is the first health-care system in Sacramento to
make a complete switch to a digital x-ray system that makes images available immediately for online viewing...
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Insurance
no barrier to cancer clinical trials
A California law enacted in 2001 appears to have removed a
major barrier to participation in clinical trials by cancer patients...
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Redirecting
frequent users of emergency room
The Sacramento Community Frequent Users of Healthcare Task
Force has received a $100,000 planning grant to explore new models of care to redirect frequent users of
costly health-care services to more appropriate resources...
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Retesting
of mammograms unnecessary for some
Of the nearly 30 million American women who undergo screening
mammograms every year, up to 11 percent receive "probably benign" test results — and therefore are...
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UC
Davis grads find 'match'
All 93 UC Davis School of Medicine graduates who participated
in the National Resident Matching Program this year were accepted into residency programs...
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Student
wins grant
UC Davis medical student Lenton Joby Morrow-Mazur is one
of 17 medical students named by National Medical Fellowships as a Community Service Scholar...
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