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Medical advances and useful technology already helping people, or shown in human trials. 3 verified stories from California, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco. Each one is checked and linked to the original report.
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Health & TechIn the 695-patient phase 3 VOLGA trial, published in NEJM and co-led by UCLA, durvalumab plus enfortumab vedotin before bladder removal raised two-year survival to 78.4 percent from 69.4 percent for patients who cannot take cisplatin. AstraZeneca funded the study.
Verified · UCLA Health
Health & TechUC Davis Transplant Center gave William Anderson, who has HIV, a kidney from a deceased donor who also had HIV. After years of dialysis he now walks more than 16,000 steps a day.
Verified · UC Davis Health
Health & TechUCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals is the first U.S. center qualified to give Waskyra, which uses a child's own stem cells. In the approval studies, severe infections fell 93 percent and bleeding 60 percent in year one.
Verified · UCSF Department of Pediatrics