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To Prevent Delirium, Increase Mobility, Connection and Sleep
UCSF researchers wanted to see if simple tweaks, like avoiding nighttime interruptions to promote sleep, nixing certain prescription drugs, and promoting exercise and social engagement, could decrease delirium in hospitalized older adults.
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Space Travel Weakens Our Immune Systems – Now Scientists May Know Why
Scientists now have shown that the weakening of an astronaut’s immune system during space travel is likely due in part to abnormal activation of immune cells called T regulator cells.
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For Newborns with Seizures, Stopping Treatment Sooner May Be Safer
Continuing medication for newborns with seizures for months after they are discharged from the hospital does not prevent epilepsy and may cause neurotoxic side effects. In a study led by UCSF
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AIDS at 40: Parallels of Living Through AIDS, Surviving COVID-19
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: HIV Prepared Oral Health Settings for COVID-19 Safety Measures
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: From HIV to COVID-19, History of Racism Hits Communities of Color Hardest
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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40 Years of AIDS in SF
In 1981, a mysterious illness began overwhelming the San Francisco community. Since those early days of the epidemic, UCSF has steadfastly been at the forefront of patient care, research and community partnerships in the battle against HIV and AIDS.
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AIDS at 40: Sexism, Structural Racism and Discrimination Continues for HIV and COVID-19
This is one of the first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19.
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AIDS at 40: Co-Discoverer of HIV on Being Ready for the Next Pandemic
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: How HIV and COVID-19 Are Informing Our Responses to Both Pandemics
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: ‘Those Our Nation Values Least, Suffer Most’
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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AIDS at 40: Forty Years of One Pandemic and Then Another
This story is one in a series of first-person perspectives from those who are working on the frontlines to better understand, treat and prevent transmission of HIV and AIDS as well as COVID-19. You
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40 Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic
Over the past four decades, UCSF has led the way in its heroic response to the AIDS epidemic, both locally and globally. This timeline covers some of the highlights at UCSF, in the nation and around the world after a mysterious disease affecting gay men was first reported on June 5, 1981.
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Everything to Know About Catching a Cold After Not Being Sick for a Year
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The Disease Detective
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$12M Hellman Foundation Gift Endows, Expands Critical Research Support
The Hellman Foundation has given a $12 million endowment to support the Hellman Fellows Fund in perpetuity.
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UCSF Joins National Collaborative to Study COVID-19 Outcomes for LGBTQ People
Researchers from the UCSF School of Nursing have joined a newly launched national collaborative to study the impacts of COVID-19 on members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities.
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Scientists Profile California’s ‘Homegrown’ COVID-19 Variant
A multifaceted collaboration between researchers at UCSF, Gladstone Institutes, and other organizations across California provides a comprehensive portrait of the variant—including its interaction with the immune system and its potential to spread.
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Fetal Heart Defect Detection Improved by Using Machine Learning
UCSF researchers have found a way to double doctors’ accuracy in detecting the vast majority of complex fetal heart defects in utero.
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Virtual Conference Highlights Precision Medicine Approach to Pandemic Recovery and Beyond
UCSF experts will showcase how taking a precision medicine approach helped to combat the COVID-19 pandemic during the Precision Medicine World Conference on June 14-18.
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Sophie Dumont Delivers 2021 Byers Award Lecture: ‘Who Conducts the Symphony of Cell Division?’
Sophie Dumont, winner of the 2021 Byers Award for Basic Science, focuses on finding out how, as well whether therapeutic targets exist to ensure equal – and healthy – division of chromosomes.
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UCSF Joins Forces with Philips to Enhance the Digital Patient Experience
The partnership will allow the company and the University to develop technology that will enable a modern, more streamlined experience for patients and set a new standard for health care delivery.
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What’s Wrong (and Right) With Race in Medicine
Six health care experts grapple with how to address race without being racist.
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Feeling Re-Entry Anxiety? Expert Advice on Navigating COVID-19 Reopenings
As COVID-19 vaccinations continue, and cities and states move toward full re-opening, many people are feeling re-entry anxiety.
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Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID
Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, founded Umoja Health Partners to unite about 30 community organizations combating COVID-19 in the Bay Area’s Black communities. She shares why the Umoja approach is working.
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Full-Genome CRISPR Screen Reveals Surprising Ways Neurons Survive Oxidative Stress
UCSF researchers have created a CRISPR technique to study how turning on or off single genes affects the function of different cell types and how these changes play a role in disease.
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2021 Founders Day Awards Celebrate Commitment to Public, University Service
Fifteen faculty, staff and students were honored for their public service, excellence in nursing and exceptional service to UC San Francisco at this year’s UCSF Founders Day Awards event.
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13th Annual Chancellor’s Diversity Forum Highlights Steps Toward Transformational Change
This year’s Chancellor’s Diversity Forum provided updates on a wide array of ongoing diversity and anti-racism efforts at UC San Francisco and a chance for the University community to ask questions.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific and UCSF to Open Cell Therapy cGMP Manufacturing and Collaboration Center
Under the agreement, Thermo Fisher will build and operate a 45,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art cell therapy development, manufacturing and collaboration center in leased space on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.
