What are the key elements of digital patient engagement?
At MedCity ENGAGE on November 7, leaders from Dignity Health and UC San Diego Health discussed challenges to IT adoption as well as how technology can benefit patients and clinicians.
How to improve geriatric care in the ER, which today lies between wilderness and cruise ship medicine
A fireside chat at MedCity's ENGAGE conference explored how to improve geriatric care in the ER from using ambient lighting and reducing noise levels to providing support for stressed family caregivers.
Tips for Greater Healthcare Practice Success in 2025
Join us on February 26 at 3 pm ET, and we’ll dive into the key areas where practices are losing time and money and provide solutions to overcome them.
UCSD, Isis Pharmaceuticals enter CRISPR gene editing race
Isis Pharmaceuticals has teamed up with UCSD to demonstrate a commercially feasible way to use RNA to control CRISPR gene editing.
Meghana Keshavan will speak at UCSD Ethics Center
MedCity News' Meghana Keshavan will speak on a panel about the ethics of life sciences journalism at a program arranged by the University of California, San Diego Ethics Center.
That RNAi startup whose founder was shot by a disgrunted biotech exec just raised $7.5M
Solstice Biologics, an interesting RNAi therapeutics company that has attracted attention for the wrong reasons, has raised $7.5 million, according to a regulatory filing, building on the $18 million raised last year from venBio and Aeris Capital. The San Francisco company is figuring out how to get RNAi-based drugs to cross multiple cell types to treat different […]
Understanding Down syndrome could be key in understanding Alzheimer’s, researchers say
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego worked with a surprising cohort when testing an experimental Alzheimer’s drug – they sought out people with Down syndrome. National Public Radio put together a nice piece on the study, and why those with Down syndrome are an ideal subset to understand Alzheimer’s: “By the age of 40, […]
Using Data to Help Healthcare Practices Succeed
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.