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Survey Shows Physicians Don’t Understand FDA’s Approval Process
Many physicians are unfamiliar with how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulates new drugs and medical devices, and they may be under the impression that the data supporting these approvals
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The Surprising True Story Behind the ‘Unofficial’ Bear Mascot of UCSF
UCSF does not have an official mascot, but you’re bound to run into at least a few that agree the University’s “unofficial” mascot is a bear.
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For Dementia Prevention, Sleep Quality in Midlife Matters More
Quality of sleep, not quantity, may play a part in the development of dementia decades before symptoms start.
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Cancer Researcher Thomas Martin Receives $4.6 million CIRM Grant
UC San Francisco’s Thomas G. Martin, MD, a leading expert in blood cancers, has received a grant of nearly $4.6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to produce a CAR T
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Study Finds Paxlovid Treatment Does Not Reduce Risk of Long COVID
A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection.
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‘This Is Not Rocket Science’: A Doctor’s Mission to Overcome Children’s Fear of Needles
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Remembering Robert Langridge, Molecular Computer Graphics Pioneer
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Prominent Surgeon and Researcher Picked to Lead UCSF Orthopaedics
C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on Jan
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COVID-19 Variant JN.1 is on the Rise. Here’s What to Know.
The new JN.1 COVID-19 variant is now estimated to make up about 20% of cases in the United States. Three UCSF experts offer advice on vaccines, masking, and other ways to protect yourself.
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Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest
This award-winning podcast series draws on the personal stories of more than 200 health care workers to explore how shame manifests in medicine. UCSF hospitalist and resident alum Emily Silverman, MD – who calls shame “the elephant in the room” – hosts the series, which is a collaboration between her Nocturnists podcast and the University of Exeter’s Shame in Medicine project.
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Meet UCSF’s Black Student Change-Makers
“You are here because you are a genius in every right,” says Sydney Williams in this video about the graduate student organization BE-STEM (Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and the exceptional leadership of Williams, Jaysón Davidson, and Christina Stephens. Find it on UCSF’s YouTube channel.
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North Woods
The Washington Post calls this novel “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic.” Written by Daniel Mason, MD ’04, it’s the tale of a house in the New England woods, told through the lives of its inhabitants across the centuries.
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Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM: Returning an Age-Old Vocation to its Roots
Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM, is helping UCSF “do the hard work of re-diversifying the midwifery profession.”
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The Light and Shadow of Life
The saying “Todo tiene solución, menos la muerte” (“Everything has a solution, except death”) was instilled in every fiber of my being by my courageous parents.
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Five Questions for Ryan Hernandez
Ryan Hernandez, PhD, is helping propel a new era for science at UCSF by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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12 Ways UCSF Is Exploring the Lungs
A world of science is examining the centerpiece of our respiratory system.
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What’s the Truth Behind Popular Online Dental Myths?
Get the real story instead of social media’s oral health hype.
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How to Grieve – and How to Help Others Through Times of Loss
A grief facilitator and UCSF chaplain shares some advice on processing loss.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Revolution for Health Care?
Could AI make nurses’ jobs – and our health care – better? Kay Burke, MBA, RN, who helps UCSF Health improve its digital tools, weighs in.
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Dangerous Beauty
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
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Corporate Strategy, National Tragedy
UCSF’s industry archives expose the marketing tactics that fueled the opioid epidemic.
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The Wonderful World of 3D+
How a suite of advanced 3D technologies is ushering in surgery’s most sophisticated era yet.
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A Prescription for Loneliness
What a tiny grassroots program in the Tenderloin is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.
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The Road to Rejuvenation
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
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Food Pharmacy Expanding to All UCSF Primary Care Clinics in San Francisco
The UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine’s food pharmacy gives out bags of fresh produce and a protein item twice a month and offers a cooking class and hot meals once a month for patients who experience food insecurity.
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UCSF Health’s Eric J. Small, MD, Elected ASCO President for 2025-26 Term
Image Eric J. Small, MD, UCSF professor of Medicine and Urology Credit: UCSF The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has elected Eric J.
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How Proteins Interact May Hold Key to Future Autism Treatments
A new collaborative approach has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 autism spectrum disorder genes may lead to serious developmental problems. The technique involves looking beyond genes and their mutations, to the proteins they code for.
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UCSF Entering 2024 ‘Amazingly Positioned’ to Lead in Health Care AI Revolution
It is clear the next year will be a pivotal one for UCSF’s place in the growth and application of artificial intelligence in health care. Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, spent a significant
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Morning Person? You Might Have Neanderthal Genes to Thank.