• Media Coverage
• January 21, 2020
• Coping in Terrible Times

NPR: “Pain Rescue Team Helps Seriously Ill Kids Cope In Terrible Times”

This NPR piece follows an unusual “pain rescue team” dedicated to easing the suffering of seriously ill kids in severe pain. The episode delves into the wrenching but powerful work of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco’s integrative pediatric pain and palliative care team, which combines traditional pharmaceutical pain care with techniques such as acupuncture and massage. The program is one of just a handful of such teams in the nation.

• Media Coverage
• January 21, 2020
• Ernest Goodson, DDS, Resident Alum: Shining a Light on Dentists

Ernest Goodson, DDS, Resident Alum: Shining a Light on Dentists

• Media Coverage
• January 21, 2020
• Elderhood: Redefining Aging Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Elderhood: Redefining Aging Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

“Society has turned old age into a disease…a condition to be dreaded, disparaged, neglected, and denied,” award-winning author Louise Aronson, MD, told the Bay Area Reporter. In her latest book, Elderhood, Aronson, a UCSF geriatrician, shares stories from her 25 years of caring for patients to weave a different vision – one that, as she puts it, is “full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope.”

• Media Coverage
• January 21, 2020
• Human Nature

Human Nature: How Will CRISPR Change our Relationship with Nature?

How will the gene-editing tool CRISPR change our relationship with nature? Will it affect human evolution? This documentary explores these questions through interviews with the pioneering scientists who discovered CRISPR, the families whose lives are altered by this new technology, and the bioengineers who are testing it. UCSF alumna Sarah Goodwin, who earned her PhD in cell biology, is the leading science adviser on the film, as well as a producer.

• Medical Mystery
• Winter 2020

The Case of the Elusive Infection

For 15 years, nobody could figure out what was making a young woman so sick. Then neurologist Michael Wilson, MD, tried a radical new test.

• Ask the Expert
• Winter 2020

Radical Investment in San Francisco’s Future

UCSF sociologist Howard Pinderhughes, PhD, says insufficient housing, economic opportunity, and educational inequity stand in the way of a healthy San Francisco. Nevertheless, he believes there is room for optimism and the possibility for change.

• Science
• Winter 2020

Ageless Muscles, Lab-Made Organs, and Other “Better” Parts

Scientists at UCSF are exploring how we can improve our bodies – now and in the future – with science that sounds like sci-fi.

• Science
• Winter 2020

The Infectious Diseases on the Rise – and on the Way Out

Infections that plagued the world for centuries (malaria, HIV/AIDS) are on the verge of eradication. Others threaten to disrupt human lives and economies more than ever before.