Brain Tumor Surgery that Pushes Boundaries Boosts Patients Survival
Survival may more than double for adults with glioblastoma, if neurosurgeons remove the surrounding tissue as aggressively as they remove the cancerous core of the tumor.
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UCSF Health Response on Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
UCSF, which specializes in the care of patients with complex illnesses, including infectious diseases like the novel coronavirus, also treated patients during past epidemics, such as SARS in 2003.
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Tailoring Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Chronic Pain
UCSF researchers are working on deep-brain stimulation technology that can be customized to the patient’s brain make up and their own brain’s feedback.
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Resource Allocation Program is Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2020 Cycle
Serving the UCSF research community, RAP is a campus-wide program that facilitates intramural research funding opportunities offering basic, clinical and translational science research types of grant mechanisms.
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Training Nurse Practitioners to Fill the Gap in Mental Health Care
To address a shortage in mental health providers, UCSF, in close collaboration with UC Davis and UCLA, is preparing to launch an online training program for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners, which aims to train 300 new mental health providers throughout the state by 2025.
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Distinctive Alzheimer’s Symptoms Linked to Damaged Glial Cells
Understanding the biological differences that drive distinct symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease could lead to more personalized patient care and potentially therapies targeted to patients’ individual needs.
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Dementia Leaders Gather for Launch of Latin American Research Initiative
Leaders in dementia from Latin America joined community members from the Global Brain Health Institute, Alzheimer’s Association, the Tau Consortium, the National Institute of Health (NIH) and more at UCSF Mission Bay for the US-Latin American Networking on Dementia Symposium. Cohosted by GBHI and the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
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Brain’s ‘GPS System’ Toggles Between Present and Possible Future Paths in Real Time
In a study of rats navigating a simple maze, neuroscientists at UCSF have discovered how the brain may generate such imagined future scenarios. The work provides a new grounding for understanding not only how the brain makes decisions but also how imagination works more broadly, the researchers say.
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UCSF Dentistry Alumnus Donates $10M to School
The anonymous contribution will establish an endowment, providing a steady and lasting source of income to sustain the long-term vision of the current and future deans of the school and the future of oral health.
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Can Dentistry Be A New Nexus for Precision Medicine?
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Coronavirus: UCSF expert working on quicker diagnostic test to stop spread
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Not ‘Brains in a Dish’: Cerebral Organoids Flunk Comparison to Developing Nervous System
Widely used organoid models fail to replicate even basic features of brain development and organization, much less the complex circuitry needed to model complex brain diseases or normal cognition.
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UCSF Health Opens New Clinics on Peninsula
The clinics enable patients to receive UCSF primary, specialty and cancer care in convenient locations close to home.
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UCSF Health Affiliates with Circle Medical for Primary Care
The affiliation will launch with two clinics, on Divisadero Street and in downtown San Francisco, and is expected to expand quickly into a network throughout the Bay Area.
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Simple Test Identifies Patients at High Risk for Future Dialysis or Transplant
A low-cost test that screens for excess protein in the urine has been shown to accurately identify patients at higher risk for progressive kidney disease after being hospitalized for acute kidney
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As Mysterious Coronavirus Spreads, An Infectious Disease Expert Explains What You Should Know
Just weeks since the viral illness was first reported in Wuhan, China, health experts globally are working on containing and treating it.To put the latest news in context, we asked UCSF infectious disease expert Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, about the origins of the Wuhan virus and public health risks going forward.
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The simple design change that could help doctors prevent opioid addiction
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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.
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Ernest Goodson, DDS, Resident Alum: Shining a Light on Dentists
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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Opioid Prescriptions Affected by Computer Settings
Researchers found that when default settings, showing a preset number of opioid pills, were modified downward, physicians prescribed fewer pills. Fewer pills could improve prescription practices and protect patients from developing opioid addictions.
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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.
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UCSF Wins 8 Regional CASE Awards in 2020 for Communications Excellence
The awards include a Grand Gold award for the UCSF.edu redesign, three Gold awards, three Silver awards and a Bronze award for work from across the Office of Communications, Community and Government Relations, and University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR).
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UCSF Releases Report on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Testing Protocols
Scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have concluded an independent review of the appropriateness of the radiation testing protocols used by the California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Navy to assess radiation contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard.
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6 Questions for Keith Yamamoto on Preciscion Medicine at UCSF
In this interview, Keith Yamamoto, PhD, Director of UCSF Precision Medicine, explains why UCSF is considered a leader in the field and describes the "machine" created to fuel new insights and innovation.
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UCSF Experts to Share Latest at 2020 Precision Medicine World Conference
The 31 UCSF speakers are among the foremost leaders who will share the latest in innovative technologies, research initiatives and clinical care developments that enable the translation of precision medicine into direct improvements in patient care.
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‘Living Fossil’ May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory
UCSF–led research team has discovered the first conclusive evidence that natural selection may also occur at the level of the epigenome and has done so for tens of millions of years.
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Death Rate Escalates for Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients in ‘Growth Failure Gap’
Children waiting for new livers who are much smaller than their peers have a heightened risk of dying. Despite this, 40 percent of these undersized waitlisted children may lose vital points required to expedite transplantation, due to a ranking system that does not account for their growth failure.
