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UC San Diego Health Doctors Earn Top Honors in Peer Recognition SurveyMore than 115 UC San Diego Health physicians celebrated as the best on the annual San Diego Magazine Top Docs peer rankings.
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First Health System on West Coast to Use New Brain Bleed TechnologiesNovel treatments may improve outcomes for chronic subdural hematoma, a common brain bleed, by enabling more complete artery closure.
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