Human & Animal Health Content

Holiday Gift Guide: Seasonal Ornaments, Coffee Center Roasts, Adidas Merch and More

Jose Antonio Vadi — November 18, 2025 - 10:55am

With the holidays approaching, we’ve compiled a list of gift ideas that help ring in the season with Aggie Blue and Gold. This year’s holiday gift guide features selections from our campus stores, new Athletics gear from Adidas, Glassybaby glassware and much more:

Hayfeeders and Other Tools Can Improve Health, Welfare of Stabled Horses

Amy M Quinton — November 18, 2025 - 9:00am

UC Davis research finds items like hay feeders, giant rubber activity balls and shatter-proof mirrors can improve the health and welfare of stabled animals while also reducing frustration behaviors

GLP-1 and Health: Beyond Weight Loss in the Ozempic Era

Andy Fell — November 13, 2025 - 11:13am

This week, the White House announced a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower the cost of their GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Wegovy and Zepbound. The move could significantly expand access to these treatments for people with diabetes and obesity.

UC Davis Chancellor May Appoints Mark I. Rosenblatt as Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences

James Michael Nash — October 22, 2025 - 10:00am

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May has appointed Mark I. Rosenblatt to the position of vice chancellor of human health sciences, overseeing UC Davis Health, which includes three hospitals: the nationally ranked UC Davis Medical Center and UC Davis Children’s Hospital, as well as the UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital. It also includes oversight for two nationally ranked schools of health — the UC Davis School of Medicine and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing — and 17 primary care clinics serving communities across Northern California. He will begin Jan. 19, 2026.

Engineers, Neurosurgeons Help Restore Autonomy for People with Paralysis

Cody Kitaura — October 15, 2025 - 7:00am

In a world first, a team of engineers, neuroscientists and neurosurgeons at UC Davis and UC Davis Health has demonstrated that brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, for translating brain signals into speech can also enable control of a computer cursor.

These Songbirds Learn More From Siblings Than From Parents

Katherine E Kerlin — October 09, 2025 - 11:00am

The powerful role of siblings is highlighted in this UC Davis study of a songbird species with limited parental care.

$110.5M in Gifts Fuel UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Expansion

Amy M Quinton — September 18, 2025 - 12:30pm

The University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine today announced plans to launch a new phase of its veterinary medical complex — made possible by philanthropic gifts totaling $110.5 million to date. The expansion will help address the critical veterinary workforce shortage, expand patient care and support cutting-edge research in cancer, translational medicine and other key areas of biomedical science.

New Cancer Drug Could Help Cats and People

Amy M Quinton — August 28, 2025 - 8:00am

A new cancer treatment for cats could help humans too. New UC Davis cat clinical trial using UCSF developed drug shows the disease was controlled in 35% of cats, with minimal side effects.

Chromium-6, Nanosilver Detected in LA Fire Cleanup Zones

Katherine E Kerlin — August 27, 2025 - 9:53am

Air quality scientists have detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium and silver in air samples collected from the debris cleanup zones for the Eaton and Palisades wildfires, which occurred January 2025 in Los Angeles County.

What Cats May Teach Us About Long COVID

Amy M Quinton — July 14, 2025 - 5:00pm

UC Davis researchers find cats could help us learn about long COVID. They've found a new cell therapy boosts immune systems in cats with severe coronavirus.