UC Davis News

For five desperate minutes, emergency room doctors at UC Davis Medical Center frantically tried to revive Scott Hawkins.

Oregon Sen. Jackie Dingfelder of Portland and Maye Thompson of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, in a recent opinion piece on The Stump argued for state legislation to prohibit the chemical bisphenol-A in food packages sold in Oregon.

When it comes to plants' innate immunity, like many of the dances of life, it takes two to tango.

Disturbing new evidence has been filed in the case of last month's beating death of a student at California State University, Sacramento, with a detailed description of the vicious attack and bizarre statements by the suspect.

Nurses Charge Public Endangered as Hospital Management Unlawfully Rations Nursing Care to Patients Registered Nurses at multiple units within the University of California Davis Hospital have filed a series of Department of Public Health charges against the facility, alerting the state to what risk of public endangerment.

A just-convicted murderer swore epithets at his victim's family and shouted out gang invocations Thursday after a Sacramento jury found him guilty in a 2005 drive-by shooting death of a man who had just bought his wife a pair of boots for Christmas.

The genome of the domestic horse has been sequenced, an accomplishment that will improve the breeding of horses and may help studies of human health, according to an international team of researchers.

Shortly after the funeral of California student Scott Hawkins, who was beaten to death by his college roommate on October 23, his parents received a second shock.

By Charles Stuart Platkin Can you really trim belly fat from your body? Not exactly.

St. Louis, MO, November 4, 2009 -- Childhood obesity in the United States is reaching epidemic proportions.

An Oroville man suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol suffered major injuries Wednesday in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 70.

The parents of a California State University, Sacramento student who was beaten to death by a dorm mate were still reeling with shock when they received another jolt.

The white shark may be the ultimate loner of the ocean, cruising thousands of miles in a solitary trek, but a team of researchers has discovered that the sharks have maintained such a consistent pattern of migration that over tens of thousands of years the white sharks in the northeastern Pacific Ocean have separated themselves into a population ...

A $2 million gift to boost entrepreneurship studies at UC Davis was announced this week by the university's Graduate School of Management, part of its continuing efforts to propel innovative ideas out of the classroom and into the business world.

On Saturday, 10 days after Scott Hawkins was beaten to death inside his dormitory at California State University, Sacramento, his parents got a letter in the mail.

The annotated genome is published online Nov. 1 by the journal Nature Genetics .

October 26, Davis, CA - Can drinking vegetable juice lower your blood pressure and help you lose weight? If so, how much? Researchers at the University of California-Davis conducted a 12-week study among adults ages 40-65 years.

The flu season is barely under way, but a sharp rise in the number of H1N1 swine flu cases is already stretching scarce resources at many hospitals.

With these weekly Q&A posts, we typically talk to a winery owner, winemaker, vineyard manager or someone else employed by an individual winery.

Federal stimulus grants to UC Davis will put some 250 people to work on earthquake safety, new sources of clean energy and West Nile virus control, among dozens of other research projects.