Insights & Advice

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Ask the Expert

Should Women Take Hormones to Manage Menopause?

UCSF gynecologists cut through the confusion.
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Mythbuster

Are Any Childhood Medical Myths Actually True?

Does any advice doled out to kids hold up?
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Ask the Expert

Digital Health: Transformative Tech or Unfulfilled Potential?

Can digital health really make us healthier?
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Mythbuster

Which Skin Care Products Do We Really Need?

UCSF dermatologists share the must-haves to keep our skin healthy.

Recent Features

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Science

The Road to Rejuvenation

UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
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Health

A Prescription for Loneliness

What a tiny grassroots program is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.
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Science

The Wonderful World of 3D+

How a suite of advanced 3D technologies is ushering in surgery’s most sophisticated era yet.
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Human Interest

Corporate Strategy, National Tragedy

UCSF’s industry archives expose the marketing tactics that fueled the opioid epidemic.
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Science

You’ll Soon Be Able to Get a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s

Will you want one?
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Science

Can Neuroscience Help Stem the Tide of Teen Depression?

A new treatment approach draws on research into the unique teenage brain.
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Science

The Cancer Breakthrough Boom

A flurry of innovations could change how we confront cancer.
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Science

Trip Therapy

Could psychedelics become mainstream medicines?
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Science

The Radical Compassion of Awake Brain Surgery

On the operating table and inside the lab of a rising star in cancer neurosurgery.

 

Alumni Stories

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  • Alumni Stories

Advocating for Person-Centered Health Care

“You hear the medical system say, ‘We’re going to do this,’ but nobody talked to people to make sure that’s what they wanted,” says Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87.

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