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Archive: UCSF Wins 2020 CASE Circle of Excellence Award for Website Redesign
UCSF won a Silver award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in this year’s international competition recognizing exceptional communications and outreach from educational institutions.
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Archive: Some ‘Inert’ Drug Ingredients May Be Biologically Active
Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study by researchers from the UCSF and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research.
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Archive: The Kidney Project Wins KidneyX Award to Enable Simpler, Safer At-Home Dialysis
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Archive: ‘COVID-Phobia’ Harming Skittish Patients Needing Care, Health Care Industry As a Whole
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Archive: ‘Wasabi Receptor’ Reveals Its Eye-Watering Secrets
UCSF researchers have now determined how the TRPA1 molecule manages to sense such a diverse variety of dangerous chemicals – and do so with enough sensitivity to let you flee before suffering too much tissue damage.
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Tweeting a Pandemic
How I learned to use social media to advance the public’s understanding of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Helping People Die from 3,000 Miles Away
Palliative care expert Alex Smith, MD, guides the families of COVID patients through the hardest decisions of their lives.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: A Tremendous Responsibility
Kelly Timothy cares for some of the Bay Area’s sickest patients – and their families.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: ER, the Hospital’s First Line of Defense
As Emergency Medicine Chief, Maria Raven, MD, takes charge of the hospital’s first line of defense.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Stem Cell Biologist
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Child Life Specialist
Child life specialist Katie Craft helps young patients grapple with new fears.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Hospitalist
Hospitalist Sajan Patel, MD, remembers anxieties and revelations while caring for the Bay Area's first coronavirus patients.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Physician-Storyteller
Between shifts at San Francisco’s public hospital, physician and podcast host Emily Silverman, MD, collects audio diaries from health workers across the nation.
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We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Medical Student
With campuses closed, Joseph Kidane serves with hundreds of his fellow medical students in a volunteer crisis workforce.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Searching for the Silver Bullet
Clinical trial leader Annie Luetkemeyer, MD, tests promising therapies for COVID-19 – and soon a vaccine.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Answering the Coronavirus Hotline
Call navigator Monique Posey fields questions about the pandemic. She shares her story – and some of her strategies for coping with stress.
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How I Survived COVID-19
Exceptional care was crucial, but I’m painfully aware that privilege also pulled me through.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: the Respiratory Therapist
A skilled ventilator operator, respiratory therapist Max Rausch helps keep the sickest patients breathing.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Order Out of Chaos
Custodian Abie Stillman shares his reflections on essential work and what he would like instead of another thank-you.
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Seeking Immunity Against COVID-19
Joel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
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Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19
Homelessness expert Margot Kushel, MD, delves into what the COVID-19 crisis reveals about housing and health.
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How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days
As the United States’ testing regime floundered early in the pandemic, scientists at UCSF and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub created from scratch a diagnostic lab that became a model for the nation.
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We Must Learn from Our Past
A look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
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Five Big Lessons from the Pandemic
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
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UCSF Alumni Confront COVID-19
We asked on social media for alumni to share their pandemic stories. Here’s a selection of submissions that came in from across the country.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: A Race for Lifesaving Treatment
Pharmacist Katherine Yang, PharmD, raced to get a new, lifesaving drug approved for emergency treatment of COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Frontliners: Confronting a Lethal Disease Unlike Any Before We’d Seen Before
What’s it like – as a clinician, researcher, student, or hospital staffer – to confront a lethal disease unlike any you’ve seen before? In this special series, professionals across UCSF share first-person accounts of COVID-19 that reveal grit, ingenuity, and resolve in the face of fear.
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Anti-Asian Racism Escalates During COVID-19
The pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
