HealthBeat Archives 2000
La Jollans Judith and Jack White
Endow UCSD Chair to Support Cardiac Research and Care - Dec 20, 2000
UCSD and Japanese Researchers Identify
New Gene Involved in Development and Function of Central Nervous System -
December 15, 2000 UCSD Researcher Receives Grant to Develop Tuberculosis Vaccine
- Dec 14, 2000 SEASONS
GREETINGS from UCSD Health
Sciences Communications - Dec. 13, 2000
UCSD Researchers Determine that
DNA-Repair Enzyme Also Plays Critical Role in Innate Immunity - Dec. 7, 2000 Cell Degradation and Growth are Topics
of Two Separate Articles in Science - Nov. 28, 2000 Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Can Occur At Any Time - Nov. 27, 2000J. Jacoby
Regents Approve Efforts to Unite UCSD
Pediatrics and Children's Hospital - Nov. 16, 2000
Tentative
Approval Given To Efforts To Unite UCSD Pediatrics and Children's Hospital -
Nov 15, 2000
UCSD Spine Surgeon Wins National
Honor - Nov. 7, 2000S. Garfin UCSD Regional Burn Center Releases
1999 Burn Statistics - Nov. 6, 2000 UCSD fMRI Center Will Give San Diego Researchers Ability to Map Brain Activity
- Oct. 27, 2000 Nerve Stimulator Offers New Hope
for Depression; UCSD is Only Southern California Site to Test the Device
- October 19, 2000 UCSD School of Medicine Named Center For Youth Violence Prevention -
Oct. 16, 2000 UCSD Neuroscientists Find That Attention to
Sound Influences Ability to See
Study has Implications for the Role of
Attention in Brain Disorders and the Work Environment.- October 16, 2000 Institute of Medicine Elects Three New San Diego Members - Oct 16, 2000 Michael Karin & UCSD Cited for
High-Impact Research Papers - Oct 1, 2000 UCSD Hosts Free HIV/AIDS Community
Forum Oct. 20 - Oct. 9, 2000
Lopiccola Charity Marlin Tournament
Set for Nov. 2-4 in Cabo San Lucas - Sept 27, 2000
UCSD One of 20 Sites in U.S. Chosen for
New Manic-Depression Treatment Program - Sept 21, 2000 Improved Clot-Busting Drug For Stroke Available in County Wide Clinical Trial
- Sept 14, 2000 UCSD Cancer Center Foundation Elects
Board President, Officers - Sept 14, 2000
Fashion Targets
Breast Cancer
- Sept. 7, 2000
Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research Established at University of California
- August 29, 2000
UCSD Researchers Discover Genetic Pathway For Sudden
Cardiac Death - August 25, 2000 Big
Support for Little Cancer Patients
- August 25, 2000
UCSD
to Establish a School of Pharmacy - July 20, 2000
UCSD Children's
Services and Children's Hospital Discussing Possible Partnership
- July 20,
2000
26th Annual San Diego LGBT Pride Parade- July
18, 2000 UCSD Healthcare's 15th Annual All Staff
Dinner Dance - July 15, 2000 UCSD Hosts 2nd Annual Safety Fair - July 12, 2000 UCSD Pediatrics Awarded Major Training Grant to Extend Clinical Care Into the
Community June 27, 2000 Two-Drug Combination Therapy Shows Promise Against Melanoma -June 20, 2000 UCSD Researchers Find Genetic Key To Puzzling Congenital Disease - June 12, 2000 UCSD Scientists Successfully Grow Insulin-Secreting Cells to Treat Diabetes- June 9, 2000 UCSD Scientists Awarded Major Environmental Health Grant
- June 9, 2000 UCSD Researcher Wins Grant to Study Colon Cancer in African-Americans- June 5, 2000 UCSD School of Medicine Graduation 2000 June 4, 2000 Burn Safety and Poison Information for Summer and 4th of July -May
25, 2000 UCSD Researchers Studying Osteoporosis in Men - Men
over 65 Needed for National Institutes of Health Research -May 11, 2000 International AIDS Panel Recommends Selected Use of Resistance Testing - May 8, 2000 UCSD 9th Annual Day with A Doctor - May 5, 2000 John and Rebecca Moores Commit $20 Million Towards Planned UCSD Cancer Center Facility-
May 4, 2000 UCSD Cancer Center Scientist Elected To National Academy Of Sciences - May 3, 2000R. Kolodner New
Vaccine Technology Achieves Dramatic Immune Response in Mice- May 2, 2000 2nd Annual UCSD Christini Fund Memorial Golf Tournament -May 1, 2000 The UCSD Sam and Rose Stein Institute for
Research on Aging (SIRA) UCSD Cancer Researcher Awarded $16.5 Million Grant to Create
National Leukemia Research Consortium -April 25, 2000 Comprehensive Melanoma Care Offered Through New UCSD Cancer Center Unit-April 18, 2000 Pete Lopiccola Memorial Foundation Makes $120,000 Gift to UCSD Cancer Center- April 14, 2000 UCSD Shiley Ophthamologists Discover Relationship Between Eye Condition and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-April 12, 2000 UCSD Team Demonstrates Potential for Widely Effective Cancer Vaccine-April 4, 2000 UCSD Physician Establishes Monthly Seminar Series To Educate Diabetics, Their Families UCSD-Salk Institute Awards Presented to Christopher Reeve, Dr. Donald Seldin, Genentech, Inc. In Memoriam, Wigbert C. Wiederholt - March 9, 2000 UCSD Researchers Link Angiogenesis Factor With Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction-February 28, 2000 UCSD Cancer Center Works to Bring Health Information to Deaf Community New study results show barriers, provide guidelines- February 18, 2000G. Robbins-Sadler Scientists Develop Transgenic Mouse That Models Parkinson's, Related Disorders
-February 17, 2000 Brain Activity is Visibly Altered Following Sleep Deprivation - February 10, 2000 UCSD Cancer Center Launches Pain Relief Unit- February 4, 2000 UCSD Burn Center's "Baby Be Safe Program" Will Teach Parents to Prevent Burn Injuries in Small Children
- January 25, 2000 Bioterrorism--The Medical and Public Health Response-Western Regional Conference - January 12, 2000 Emphysema Treatment Study Designed To Answer Critical Questions UCSD Regional Burn Center Releases 1998 Burn Statistics- December 10, 2000 UCSD Alzheimer’s Gene Therapy Trial To Proceed With Recruitment
- December 10, 2000
A. Wynshaw-Boris, migration of neurons
R. Kornbluth, Sequella Global Tuberculosis Foundation
Holiday Heart and Other Seasonal Health Tips
- Dec 13, 2000
E. Raz, DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK), genome defense
S. Emr, K. Scully, transcription factor (or molecular master switch)
A
Survival Guide For A Safe Holiday Season - Nov. 9, 2000 
R. Covell, R. Buxton, L. Squire, M. Sereno
Vagus Nerve Stimulator, M. Rapaport, epilepsy
V. Reznik, D. Hoyt
J. McDonald, S. Hillyard
J. Olefsky, L. Squire, W. Vale
The Trick is to Have a SAFE
Halloween - Oct. 2, 2000
Local Philanthropists Commit $13 Million
Towards UCSD Shiley Eye Center Expansion -Sept 27, 2000
Donald P. and Darlene V. Shiley
UCSD Psychopharmacology Research Program, Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD, M. Rapaport
P. Lyden, Tenecteplase (TNK), t-PA
Musical
"Evening With..." to Benefit High-Risk Mothers-to-Be and Infants -Sept
8, 2000
SB847 (Vasconcellos), Gray Davis, D. Abrams, J. Atkinson, A. Mattison, I. Grant
Van Nguyen-Tran, K. Chien,ventricular arrhythmia, UCSD Institute of Molecular Medicine
Edward
W. Holmes, M.D., selected as New Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences- July
20
V. Reznik, The Dyson Initiative – Pediatrics Training in the Community
E. McClay, tamoxifen and cisplatin
C. Makris, M. Karin, incontinentia pigmenti (IP), skin abnormalities
F. Levine, D. Dufayet, human beta cells, insulin prodcing tissue
UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program, R. Tukey, pollutants, toxicants
California Cancer Research Program (CRP), J. Carethers, microsatellite instability (MSI)
D. Richman, HIV, drug resistance
E. Raz, H.J. Cho,cancer, infectious disease and allergy, immune response-boosting DNA technology
Annual Spring Opening - April 27,2000
T. Kipps, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
E. McClay, D. Tarin
D. Granet, convergence insufficiency
M. Zanetti, Telomerase
And The Community - March 22, 2000
S. Edelman, Taking Control of Your Diabetes
and Dr. Dennis Slamon - March 21, 2000
P. Thistlethwaite, S. Jamieson, P. Wolf, Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF), oxygen deprivation
E. Masliah, alpha-synuclein
J.C. Gillin, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
M. Wallace, D. Tarin, alternative medicine
M. Tuszynski, Hoi Sang U, Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC)