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Ask the Expert

How Do I Prepare Today for Healthy Aging Tomorrow?

UCSF experts share how to plan for a vibrant future as we age.
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Mythbuster

What’s the Truth About Healing from (or Preventing) Injuries?

Common advice can be spot-on or flat-out false, so we asked physical therapy experts.
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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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Human Interest

Four Quick Ways to Truly Rest

Combat stress within seconds by activating your parasympathetic nervous system.

Recent Features

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Health

Are the New Weight Loss Drugs Too Good to Be True?

The real answer isn’t “yes” or “no.” Here are six things you need to know.
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Human Interest

The Power of Deep Rest

A truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter stress.
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Science

How a Team of Brain Detectives Is Cracking the Hardest Cases

A new diagnostic clinic for mysterious nervous-system disorders is giving patients answers they can’t find anywhere else.
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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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Science

The Cancer Breakthrough Boom

A flurry of innovations could change how we confront cancer.
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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

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

Will you want one?
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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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Science

Can Neuroscience Help Stem the Tide of Teen Depression?

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

 

Alumni Stories

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  • Alumni Stories

An Entrepreneur Empowering Patients

“As long as you work really hard, then when luck strikes, you will be ready. Work hard on what you believe in and surround yourself with a team to help you along the way,” says Kelly Nguyen, PharmD ’96.

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