What is Health 34, and what kind of care does the service provide? Hear an explanation in the above video.

Surgeons discuss pickleball injuries

It’s a bit of a pickle: The injury rate for pickleball players is rising alongside the sport’s popularity. UC Davis Health orthopaedic surgeons are seeing an increase in a variety of injuries, including muscle strains, fractures and more.

In other words, pickleball enthusiasts are keeping the UC Davis Health sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery teams busy!

Read more on the UC Davis Health website.

Help Unfold win ‘listener’s choice’ award

UC Davis’ Unfold podcast is a finalist in the third-annual Signal Awards, run by the same company as the Webby Awards. You can now help Unfold win a “Listener’s Choice” award for its episode “Close Encounters of the Whale Kind,” in which UC Davis scientists “communicate” with a humpback whale in order to learn how to someday communicate with extraterrestrials. Vote here by Oct. 17.