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The Solana Beach School District board unanimously approved a proactive COVID-19 testing program for students and staff on Sept. 10.
It’s the fourth drug approval for the large and ever-growing biotech
Pacific Highlands Ranch site offers primary care and women’s health services
A San Diego-based biotech firm that has co-founders from UC San Diego is working to develop and commercialize a minimally invasive method for early cancer detection and recently closed a $3 million seed financing round to further its results.
North County doctors says goal is to save lives by increasing number of donated organs for transplant
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Carla Marienfeld is a clinical professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego, medical director of the UC San Diego Addiction Recovery and Treatment Program, and program director of the UC San Diego Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
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Two former Qualcomm employees and a Canyon Crest Academy computer science teacher started an educational company for students to improve their proficiency in subjects including computer science, engineering, applied math and other technologies that are relevant in today’s job market.
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After a career that has included earning a PhD in molecular biology from UC Santa Barbara, co-founding a local biotechnology company, and spending seven years working in the pharmaceutical industry, Patrick Johnson decided to turn his attention to finding a way to treat myopia, the most common eye disease in children.
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As chairman and CEO of CalciMedica, Rachel Leheny is overseeing the development of a potential treatment for organ damage caused by COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center announced that it has became the first health care provider in the county to diagnose a patient using a high-resolution scan of the patient’s tissue sample, as opposed to the traditionally used microscope.
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Sharp HealthCare recently announced that Rebeca Perez-Serrano, Del Mar resident Marc Brutten, Bob Bolinger, Carmel Valley resident Dr.
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The Torrey Pines High School Foundation will be sponsoring a variety of different online webinars over the next few weeks as a way to connect parents to school programs and other valuable resources.
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Promises2Kids, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create a brighter future for foster children, has launched a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign selling golf balls for the Brighter Futures Ball Drop on Oct. 2.
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The coronavirus pandemic is no match for Boys to Men Mentoring Network’s commitment to helping disconnected, often fatherless boys become good men.The nonprofit recently parlayed COVID-19 restrictions into a reimagined COVID 19-compliant version of its flagship fundraiser, the 100 Wave Challenge.
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11th annual gala set for Oct. 31
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Virtual conversation with executive directors of local nonprofits supported by the Fund set for Oct. 6
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With frustrations mounting over distance learning, students and parents from the San Dieguito Union High School District staged a protest march Sept. 24 from the Encinitas Community and Senior Center to the district office.
Research into the sugary coating on coronavirus cells could provide insights into how to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, which has so far caused almost 600,000 deaths worldwide.
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The flu is a strain of the virus that killed 285,000 people globally in 2009.
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Halozyme’s new business model is built on helping other companies deliver their drugs faster
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For young children, an innocuous sore throat could be a sign of PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders), a condition that a Solana Beach-based doctor has been centering his practice around.
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The workday is never short for Dr. Davey Smith, chief of infectious diseases at UC San Diego.
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In the fight against the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, scientists are taking testing data and looking at ways to enhance contact tracing.
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A San Diego doctor is accused of hailing hydroxychloroquine as a ‘miracle cure’ to an undercover FBI agent posing as a prospective patient
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Walking to school as a child, UC San Diego visiting professor Smitha Vishveshwara asked her father, a black hole physicist, what he did for a living.
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Using a newly developed antibody test, a La Jolla-based health and wellness company is trying to help employers safely return their employees to the workplace.
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UCSD researchers say a lack of coastal winds might be allowing the bloom to persist.
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A local clinical psychologist who specializes in helping men transition into fatherhood now faces the added challenge of guiding new dads during a global pandemic.
