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Payam Nahid to Head UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences
Payam Nahid, MD, MPH, a leader in improving tuberculosis care around the world, is the new executive director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences.
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How Cindy Chang, MD, Rewrote the History of Sports Medicine
Professor emeritus Cindy Chang, MD, has had an impressive career, from being the first female chief medical officer for the U.S Olympic team, to establishing a sports medicine fellowship at UCSF.
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What’s Behind the Surge of Fatty Liver Disease in Latinx Kids?
Pediatric cases of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) have spiked in the last decade, especially amongst Latino children. Food insecurity might be the reason why.
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Ageism in Health Care Is More Common Than You Might Think, and It Can Harm People
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Asian American Women Are Getting Lung Cancer Despite Never Smoking. It’s Baffling Scientists and Leading to More Research.
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COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year after Infection
The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended.
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Allen Institute Joins Weill Neurohub
The Allen Institute is the newest member of the Weill Neurohub, a collaborative research network advancing treatments for neurological diseases.
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COVID Vaccines Are Safe for Pregnant Women and Babies
A first of its kind study finds that the COVID vaccine is safe to administer during pregnancy, causing no abnormal delays when the infants were tested at 12 months and again at 18 months.
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How Daylight Saving Impacts Your Sleep and What to Do About It
With Spring Forward setting our clocks one hour ahead, “Sleepy Monday” can have a temporary effect on our sleeping patterns. Aric Prather explains how.
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New Pediatric Cancer Marker, New Hope for a Treatment Target
Researchers recently identified a universal, essential biomarker for the childhood cancer neuroblastoma – and the biomarker could be a potential new target for treatment. Neuroblastoma accounts for
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Researchers Are Using AI to Find New Alzheimer’s Risk Factors
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Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer?
A new drug candidate permanently modifies a wily cancer-causing mutation, paving the way for making pancreatic cancer treatable, or perhaps even curable.
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UCSF Health Expands Network of Care with 2 Hawaii Hospitals
UCSF Health is expanding its collaboration with two hospitals in Hawaii, Hawai’i Pacific Health and Hilo Medical Center, to support a $150 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff that aims to increase access to high-quality medical care for Hawaii residents.
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Apparently Healthy, but Diagnosed With Alzheimer’s?
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Better Way to Deliver Fetal Therapy for Serious Genetic Disorders
Delivering medicine through amniotic fluid is as effective as delivering it to the fetal brain via cerebrospinal fluid to treat serious disordrs such as Angelman syndrome.
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Targeted Treatment of Rare Childhood Leukemia
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare but aggressive childhood leukemia. While hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is curative for some patients, approximately half of all patients see
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Can AI Help Doctors Find Cancer Faster by Reviewing Records?
Artificial intelligence could potentially help extract liver tumor data at a much faster and accurate rate, setting possibilities for improved liver cancer care.
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Could We Assess Autism in Children With a Simple Eye Reflex Test?
UCSF scientists may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads.
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Smoking Weed Daily Linked to Significantly Higher Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke
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Think Smoking Cannabis Won’t Damage Your Heart? Think Again
Daily cannabis smokers have a 25% increased risk of heart attack and a 42% increased risk of stroke compared to non-users.
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I’m a Microplastics Researcher. Here’s How To Limit Their Dangers
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, offers insights on what her research on microplastics has led her to change how she and her family eats and what cleaning products she uses.
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Dozens of New Trees Take Root Around Parnassus Heights
UCSF and a host of local volunteers celebrated the planting of 42 new trees on neighborhood streets surrounding the historic Parnassus Heights campus – kicking off a plan to renovate UCSF’s original home with updated research, education and health care facilities.
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New Walnut Creek Cancer Center Brings Specialty Care Close to Home
The new UCSF Health-John Muir Health Jean and Ken Hofmann Cancer Center at the Behring will bring a full spectrum of leading-edge cancer care close to home for people in the East Bay and surrounding areas.
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Passionate UCSF Medical Resident Has ‘Whirlwind’ First Day
Join Kelechi Okpara as she navigates through her whirlwind first day as a new medical resident at the UCSF Parnassus campus.
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UCSF Opens World’s First Center of Excellence for Gould Syndrome
UCSF is home to the first center in the world focused on patients with COL4A1/2 mutations, which can cause the rare disease Gould Syndrome.
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First Tissue Bank May Help Solve Mystery of Long COVID Misery
UCSF will launch the world’s first tissue bank with samples donated by patients with long COVID.
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Meet the Fetal Surgeon Forging CRISPR’s Next Frontier: Curing Diseases in the Womb
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E-Bike Head Trauma Soars as Helmet Use Falls, Study Finds
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How AI Can Help Spot Early Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease
UCSF scientists found a way to predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear by analyzing patient records with machine learning. Conditions that most influenced prediction of Alzheimer’s were high cholesterol and, for women, osteoporosis.
