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For Struggling Older Adults, Support from Paid Peers May Alleviate Loneliness, Depression
An initiative that paired paid visitors with racially diverse older adults, many of whom lived alone and struggled with taking care of their basic needs, resulted in reduced loneliness and plunging rates of depression.
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UCSF to Offer Grants to Improve Community Wellbeing
To support the wellbeing of the UCSF community, the University is now offering grants for projects that promote various forms of wellness.
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California Faces Short-Term Nursing Shortage from COVID-19 Retirements
California will face a significant shortfall of registered nurses over the next five years due to long-term trends that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic
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Severe Infections During Pregnancy Associated With Complications Around Childbirth
Individuals who are hospitalized during pregnancy due to sepsis have higher odds of complications surrounding childbirth, according to a study led by researchers at UCSF. The study found that pregnancies complicated by sepsis were associated with an increased risk of cesarean delivery, postpartum hemorrhage and preterm delivery, highlighting the risk of any severe infection during pregnancy.
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Data-Driven Drug Dosing Speeds Tuberculosis Treatment to 4 Months
A clinical trial of new treatment regimens, led in part by researchers at UCSF, recently demonstrated that a more potent combination of antibiotics could shorten the duration of treatment for TB.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Produce Immune Responses in Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Most patients on immunosuppressive drugs for chronic inflammatory conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and inflammatory bowel disease, can still produce antibodies after receiving the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, researchers at UCSF and Washington University have concluded.
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Alcohol Can Cause Immediate Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
A single glass of wine can quickly raise the drinker’s risk for atrial fibrillation, according to new research by UCSF.
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Struggling to Learn a New Language? Blame It on Your Stable Brain
A study in patients with epilepsy is helping researchers understand how the brain manages the task of learning a new language while retaining our mother tongue.
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AI Algorithm Matches Cardiologists’ Expertise, While Explaining Its Decisions
In a new study, an artificial intelligence algorithm exceeded the performance of a widely available commercial system in nearly all examined diagnoses.
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For Newborns with Fever, New Guideline Offers Clarity to Pediatricians, Parents
A new guideline from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers dome clarity around diagnosing and treating newborns with a fever.
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Sequencing the Condor Genome for Insights into Human Diversity
A team of researchers at UCSF have recently sequenced the condor genome, shining light on the species’ history and opening the door to a better understanding of genomics in small populations, for the benefit of both condors and humans.
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COVID-19 During Pregnancy Associated with Preterm Birth
Individuals who contract COVID-19 while pregnant face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any preterm birth.
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Here’s Why Poisonous Animals Don’t Poison Themselves
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Should the Delta Variant Change Your Decisions About Covid-19? Here’s What Doctors Are Doing
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Q&A: Building a Speech Prosthetic for a Paralyzed Man
Following groundbreaking work on a “speech neuroprosthesis” that enabled a paralyzed man to communicate using his brain signals, the lab team answered public questions about brain-computer interfaces and the limitations of translating brain signals into code.
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How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant? Here’s What the Science Says
We spoke to UCSF virologist Nadia Roan, PhD, about the latest developments in our knowledge of the Delta variant, including how the new variant spreads so efficiently, whether it causes more serious illness, and why she thinks vaccines will hold the line.
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Poison Frogs, Birds, Hold Clues to Antidotes for Deadly Toxins
A team of researchers at have uncovered some intriguing clues in the mystery of how some poison birds and frogs evade their own toxins.
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UCSF Responds to Surge in COVID-19 Cases Among Employees, Learners
UCSF is responding to an increase in the number of community-acquired COVID-19 cases among its employees and learners.
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3-D ‘Heat Map’ Animation Shows How Seizures Spread in the Brains of Patients with Epilepsy
UCSF researchers developed a program that translates the hundreds of EEG traces into a 3-D movie showing activity in all recorded locations in the brain. The result is a multicolored 3-D heat map that looks very much like a meteorologist’s hurricane weather map.
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Dual-Drug Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Alcohol Use Disorder
UCSF researchers have leveraged two new molecules, one of which is currently in clinical oncology trials, to devise a dual-drug therapy for alcohol use disorder (AUD), without the side effects or complications associated with current treatment regimens.
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UCSF to House COVID Tracking Project, a National Database Donated by The Atlantic
UCSF and The Atlantic have announced that the crowdsourced digital archive documenting the face of the pandemic in the United States will become part of the University’s permanent library collection and is accessible to researchers and the public.
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UCSF Co-led Study Demonstrates Safety and Efficacy of 4-Month Tuberculosis Treatment Regimen
UCSF researchers in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group published a landmark study that demonstrated a new four-month treatment regimen for tuberculosis was safe and as efficacious as the standard six-month therapy.
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UCSF Medical Center Ranks 1st Nationwide in Neuro, Among Top 10 Hospitals for 2021-22
UCSF Medical Center has been recognized as the nation’s best hospital for neurology and neurosurgery, and among the country’s premier medical centers overall, in the 2021-22 Best Hospitals survey by U.S. News & World Report.
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Over 65 and Lonely? Don’t Talk to Your Doctor About Another Prescription
The proportion of seniors who had prescriptions for opioids and anti-anxiety medications and sedatives correlated with their degree of loneliness, according to the study.
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Faster Test Results Mean Better Outcomes For HIV Patients
Scientists at UCSF and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda have developed an intervention that makes use of a portable laboratory testing technology to help HIV providers order, process, and receive HIV viral load results quickly, and shorten the time it takes for patients to get their results.
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Long-Term Prognosis for Some Patients With Severe Brain Injury Better Than Expected, Study Shows
Researchers found that among the patients in a vegetative state, 1 in 4 “regained orientation” – meaning they knew who they were, their location and the date – within 12 months of their injury.
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UCSF Task Force to Identify a New Location for Zakheim Murals
A UCSF task force has been formed to recommend a publicly accessible, permanent site for New Deal-era murals that will be carefully removed from a seismically vulnerable building on its Parnassus Heights campus.
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Coffee Doesn’t Raise Your Risk for Heart Rhythm Problems
In the largest study of its kind, an investigation by UCSF researchers has found no evidence that moderate coffee consumption can cause cardiac arrhythmia.
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For Concussion Patients, CTs Offer Window into Recovery
CT scans for patients with concussion provide critical information about their risk for long-term impairment and potential to make a complete recovery – findings that underscore the need for physician follow-up.
