Insights & Advice

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Ask the Expert Winter 2022

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 2022

The Nation Needs Nurses Now

Gina Intinarelli-Shuler shares how UCSF is handling the nursing shortage, which is hammering hospitals everywhere.
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Health Winter 2022

What You Didn’t Learn in School about Sexual Health

UCSF experts share their favorite science-based, judgment-free tips.
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Mythbuster Summer 2022

Detoxing: Can You Buy Your Way to Better Health?

Find out whether there are smarter ways to spend your time and money.

Combating Coronavirus

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Science Winter 2022

An All-Out Quest to Understand Long COVID

A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
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Science Summer 2021

Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly

Could hidden autoimmunity explain why the disease makes some people deathly sick but not others?
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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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Perspectives Summer 2020

How I Survived COVID-19

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.
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Ask the Expert Winter 2021

How Can We Be Sure the New COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe?

We asked several UCSF experts for a personal take on what will convince them that a vaccine is safe.
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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.

 

Alumni Stories

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  • Alumni Stories
  • Summer 2022

The Man Who Would Not Be Silenced

ER physician Cleavon Gilman, MD ’16, fought – and won – battles against poverty, a speech defect, and Iraq War horrors. He wasn’t going to let COVID beat him.

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