UC Davis Internal Medicine

To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, UC Davis Health is offering free mammogram screening exams to help meet the needs of uninsured members of our community. Click the link to find out how to make an appointment.

What is a COVID antibody cocktail? Our Department Chair, Dr. Timothy Albertson breaks it down and also tells us what trials are currently underway at UC Davis Health.

UC Davis Health is one of the hospitals nationwide that will test the effectiveness and safety of REGN-COV2, the monoclonal antibody cocktail, in preventing COVID-19 in adults living with infected patients. The cocktail recently made headlines after President Trump took it as part of his COVID-19 treatment. Infectious Disease Chief Stuart Cohen details what we know and what we still need to learn about REGN-COV2.

It's critical that as many Americans as possible get a flu shot this year to help keep as many hospital beds open as possible as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. UC Davis Health is trying to make those flu shots as accessible as possible for all Northern Californians!

Duty calls indeed! Read how Facilities Management at UC Davis are using sewage samples to help detect COVID19.

#COVID19 has been disproportionately impacting Black and Latinx communities. UC Davis Health and Internal Medicine's own Mark Henderson talked with Telemundo 33 about the drug being developed by Regeneron for the treatment of COVID19. It's important to note there is no COVID19 cure and the REGN-COV2 monoclonal antibody coronavirus therapy has not been approved by FDA for use as a COVID19 treatment.

ICYMI: Internal Medicine and UC Davis Health Family Medicine have partnered to open up a clinic to assist pregnant mothers with opioid use disorder. Read more about this new clinic and it's important mission.

Can better planning increase preventive health screening? Internal Medicine's Dr. Erik Chak is hoping to answer that very question. His team recently received a 2 year, $600,000 grant to see if better planning in the doctor’s office prior to patient visits can help.

This is what leadership looks like during these #COVID19 times. Congrats to Dr. Ted Wun, Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola and the rest of the team from several UC Davis Health and UC Davis centers for securing funding for free COVID tests for Central Valley farmworkers.

It's been six months since the #COVID19 pandemic began. We've learned so much and there's still so much to learn. Take a look at some key takeaways from two UC Davis Health experts.

TEACH in those days involved just five residents in one corner of the building. Now it is hard to find a part of the building where UC Davis doesn’t have a presence students, residents, fellows and faculty. Learn more about how the TEACH program has grown in size and impact in such a short amount of time both across UC Davis Health and the Sacramento area.

UC Davis Chancellor Gary May likes to say "This is who we are" when UC Davis and UC Davis Health lead the way in research and problem solving issues that have a global impact. Internal Medicine is doing its best to live up to Chancellor May's saying. Department Chair Tim Albertson is the principal investigator on a #COVID19 therapy clinical trial that UC Davis Health has been selected to participate. Learn more about the OSCAR Clinical Trial.

Having trouble sleeping? You're not alone. #COVID19 is wrecking people's sleep. It's gotten so bad some experts have dubbed it Coronasomnia. Dr. Kimberly Hardin, co-director of the Sleep Center and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program, dive deeper in to the issue and details how you can combat Coronasomnia. https://health.ucdavis.edu//covid-19-is-wrecking-o/2020/09