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Here’s what we have for you today:
- County officials say that students at staff at Cal State San Marcos may have been exposed to tuberculosis.
- A San Diego woman was hospitalized after being shot in an apparent road-rage incident.
- GEO Group, a “private immigration detention” company, has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement in a landmark legal case.
Jennifer Vigil
News editor
Top story
$50M backs push by UC researchers to tackle ‘big open question mark’ in women’s brain health
We hear about it all the time – multi-million dollar grants funding major research into cancer, diabetes, heart disease and more.
One of the most urgent areas of study is Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. But when it comes to women, that research has lagged behind, despite them being almost twice (!!!) as likely to face Alzheimer’s.
A UC San Diego team hopes to change that, by focusing on women’s brain health, and they secured some serious funding to do so – $50 million.
Specifically, the researchers plan, over the next three years, to look into how menopause and hormone therapy affect the risks faced by women. They also will try to develop an AI tool for early detection.
Research on women’s overall health lags behind. Even less data exists on menopause. “There’s been this silence around studying menopause science for the last 25 years,” one of the UCSD researchers said.
There’s another prong to the work. UCSD is also part of a study, which will be led by UC Santa Barbara researchers, to follow women before, during and after menopause to help shape the future of research on menopause and brain health.
It’s a big lift, not only to find breakthroughs, but also to play catch up after decades of neglect. Our contributor Elizabeth Ireland has more on the project’s goals and why the researchers think their work is so crucial.
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Stories you should know about
🏍️ With motorcycles and rainbows, the Dyke March returns to San Diego Pride: The march was a diverse, inclusive affair, with multiple ages, ethnicities, and genders represented — which, according to organizers, was entirely by design.
🩺 They harvest the nation’s food — and a new rule may strip them of health insurance: The new Medicaid work requirements were a key provision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed last July by President Donald Trump.
📚Newsom’s final budget sends more than a billion dollars to University of California, Cal State: UC and Cal State students receiving the Cal Grants will have their tuition charges waived, even as schools continue to raise tuition.
🚙Proposal would allow drivers to trade personal data for potentially lower insurance rates: Supporters say the legislation would make streets and highways safer by encouraging better driving, while opponents worry about privacy, lack of transparency and possible bias in insurance pricing.
What else we’re reading
🏡 The proposed second home tax is back on the table for San Diego City Council this week, but this time it would exclude vacation rentals. (Voice of San Diego)
🍔 La Mesa might get its first In-N-Out Burger. (Union-Tribune)
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In case you missed it…
Weekdays get busy—we know. And with so much from Times of San Diego, good stories can slip by. Here are a few worth your time:
🚔 After years of racial discrimination complaints, San Diego set to pay police sergeant $3.1M to settle case. On Tuesday, San Diego councilmembers are expected to give final approval of a $3.1 million settlement to a San Diego police sergeant who says he was racially discriminated against for over a decade.
🎨 ‘Dead Dolly Lane:’ San Diego County’s creepiest roadside attraction. Tucked into the backcountry of Alpine along Japatul Road, one of San Diego County’s strangest unofficial roadside attractions has become both unsettling and oddly fascinating.
💰One in four of SDG&E’s residential customers now using solar power, utility says. San Diego Gas & Electric announced that around a quarter of its customers are now generating their own power through rooftop solar panels.
🔨 After months of prep, Waymo nearly ready to launch driverless service in San Diego. Waymo cars have been all over central San Diego for more than a year, but always with drivers at the wheel. Ready or not, that’s about to change.