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Almost Half of Type 2 Diabetes Patients Report Acute and Chronic Pain
Almost half of adults with type 2 diabetes report acute and chronic pain, and close to one quarter report neuropathy, fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance and physical or emotional disability, according to a study of more than 13,000 adults conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, the University of California, San Francisco and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, CA. The researchers also found significant rates of shortness of breath, nausea and constipation.
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Medical Professionals Step into Virtual World for Training
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Web-Enabled Bathroom Scale Could Monitor Heart Failure from Home
<p>Can a retrofitted bathroom scale costing less than $100 save lives and improve the health of millions of Americans living with heart failure while cutting billions of dollars in annual health care spending?</p>
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Epilepsy Drug Reverses Memory Loss in Alzheimer's Mouse Model
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Hospitals See Spike after Chevron Fire
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Kid-Friendly Environment at Visual Center Allows For Better Eye Exam
<p>When new patients are brought to the UCSF Visual Center for the Child, eye examinations begin even before they enter the doctor’s room.</p>
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Children's Cholesterol Improving Slightly
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Marin County's High Breast Cancer Rate May be Tied to Genetics
Marin County, Calif., has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor.
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Minority Patients at Higher Risk of Having Ambulances Diverted
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Emergency Room Overcrowding More Likely to Impact Minorities
Hospitals in areas with large minority populations are more likely to be overcrowded and to divert ambulances, delaying timely emergency care, according to a multi-institutional study focused on California.
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Minorities Hit Hardest by Hospital Overcrowding, Study Finds
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How Digital Culture Is Rewiring Our Brains
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Sleeping Less May Dampen Vaccine Response
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The Journey Home
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Epilepsy Drug Could Help with Alzheimer's-Related Memory Loss
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered that an FDA-approved anti-epileptic drug reverses memory loss and alleviates other Alzheimer’s-related impairments in an animal model of the disease.
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Overcrowded ER Points to Larger Problems
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Cracks in the Test: Doctors Improve Osteoporosis Screens
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Minorities Hit Hardest by Calif. Hospital Overcrowding: Study
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Gladstone Researchers Find Epilepsy Drug That May Work for Alzheimer's Patients
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Brain Might Not Stand in the Way of Free Will
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Researchers Identify Mechanism that Turns White Fat Cells to Brown
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
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Epilepsy Drug Reverses Memory Loss in Animal Model of Alzheimer's Disease
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Half in U.S. Have Poor Health Literacy
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UCSF, Dignity Discuss Linking San Francisco Hospitals
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Summer Internships Encourage High School Students to Pursue Careers in Science
<p>Andrea Lopez knows that she could easily be doomed by her demographic: She is 17, Latina and the mother of a baby boy. But UCSF's Science Education & Health Partnership's internship program has helped her prove otherwise.</p>
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Cradle to College to Career
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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Is it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and also become more savvy consumers of medicine in the long run?
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Not Losing Weight? Here's Why