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(Sacramento, Calif.) — Last fall, Niroop Ravula, a pediatric anesthesiologist at UC Davis Health, made a 32-hour journey from Sacramento, California, to Lusaka in Zambia. He brought with him a suitcase stuffed with 48 pounds of anesthesiology equipment and supplies — two types of laryngoscopes, which help anesthesiologists put in breathing tubes during surgery, laryngeal…
UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual chamber leadless pacemaker in a child. His case report was published this week in the journal PACE: Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology. A 13-year-old patient was referred to the UC Davis pediatric electrophysiology clinic for presyncope, a…
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer. It spreads quickly and has few treatment options. It is also serious because of its rate of recurrence. Black women are twice as likely as white women to be diagnosed with TNBC. They are also more likely to die from the devastating disease. In fact, the…
