Insights & Advice

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Ask the Expert Summer 2021

Can this Controversial New Drug Curb Alzheimer’s Disease?

It’s complicated, but for some patients, there’s reason to be optimistic about aducanumab.
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Ask the Expert Summer 2021

Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID

Q&A with Kim Rhoads, founder of Umoja Health Partners
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Ask the Expert Summer 2021

How Can We Thwart the Next Pandemic?

Leading scientists share some of the tools and strategies that could help us better confront and contain future outbreaks.
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Mythbuster Summer 2021

Brain Boosters: Can Puzzles and Pills Make Us Sharper?

Games and supplements claim to strengthen cognition. Should you buy them?

Combating Coronavirus

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Science Winter 2021

Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go.

A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.
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Science Summer 2020

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus

We were wrong.
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Ask the Expert Winter 2021

What Is COVID Doing to Our Hearts?

The disease can affect the heart’s rhythm, impair its ability to pump blood, and much more.
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Human Interest Summer 2020

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.
UCSF Nurses gather in Oakland for a Black Health Matters protest; a male Black nurse in a white coat and face mask stands with female nurses, holding a sign that reads “Abolish” in graffiti style; a large mural of George Floyd’s portrait is in the background.

Health Summer 2020

An Epidemic of Inequality

Confronting the root of why people of color have been hit hardest by the coronavirus.
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Perspectives Summer 2020

How I Survived COVID-19

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.

 

Alumni Stories

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  • Alumni Stories
  • Summer 2021

Turns Out, Designing a COVID Vaccine Was Easy

The hard part was everything that came next, says Stephen Hoge, MD ’03, president of Moderna.

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