Hall says he’s had a beast of a year furthering his education at UC Davis while working full-time in the ER, but he knows the long hours are worth it. He’s graduating with a better understanding of ...

The 250 transplant centers had a median of 1.3% of days with an average daily heat index over 86°F, but the hottest centers spent more than 20% of their days over 86°F, said Cojuc-Konigsberg.

Picnic Day is a long-standing tradition at UC Davis dating back to 1909. The university community prides itself in being one of the largest student-run events in the country.

Comparison of 2021 CKD-EPI Equations for Estimating Racial Differences in Preemptive Waitlisting for Kidney Transplantation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 2022; CJN ...

A kidney transplant fast track program reduces time to waitlisting and kidney transplantation compared with standard care, investigators report. The program also reduces racial and ethnic ...

The hospital, which completed the world's first kidney xenotransplantation in March 2024, said the latest transplant was completed during a 2.5-hour procedure on Jan. 25.

UC Davis 2024 was a record-breaking year for the nationally-recognized UC Davis Health Transplant Center, which gave new life to hundreds of patients in Northern California needing the gift of an ...

He lived for more than 44 years following his newsmaking transplant ― an astounding feat, given the 10- to 15-year life expectancy of an average 1980s kidney transplant patient.

Melissa Blevins, executive director of the UC Davis Transplant Center, says liver perfusion technology “has really broadened our ability to get organs.” There is a clock that ticks ominously for ...

Still, there has been tremendous inconsistency in how transplant centers treat TPD kidneys, with some accepting them and others rejecting. "We conducted this study because, about a year ago, there ...

When a participating transplant hospital provides a kidney transplant to an IOTA model-defined low-income population, CMS proposes to multiply the score for that transplant by 1.2, hence providing ...

This first attempt in a cancer patient "is the next important step," he said. Other options are being studied, noted Dr. Peter Belafsky of UC Davis, who helped perform the 2010 transplant.