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Archive: ‘Super-Hero’ Stem Cells Survive Radiation to Regrow Muscles
Muscle damage is a common side effect of radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and is made worse because the very stem cells responsible for repairing injured muscles typically bear the brunt of
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Archive: Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC San Francisco cancer biologist Alan Ashworth, PhD, structural biologist Yifan Cheng, PhD, and molecular physiologist Holly Ingraham, PhD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and
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Archive: Gene Therapy Advances To Better Treat 'Bubble Boy' Disease
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Archive: Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
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Archive: Treating Excess of One Hormone Shows Promise for Decreasing the Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Two UCSF surgeons set out to study the role a hormone plays in obesity and stumbled on a surprising finding.
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Archive: Medical Student Named 2019 PD Soros Fellow
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Archive: Study: School-Based Health Centers Effective in Changing Eating Habits, Fighting Obesity
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Archive: After a Hip Fracture, Reducing the Risk of a Recurrence
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Archive: Making Better Pediatric Chemo Treatments, and Delivering Them to More Children
Janel Long-Boyle, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy's Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has spent her career advancing lifesaving drugs.
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Archive: ‘Lovely,’ ‘Pleasant’ and ‘Scientific’ – Medical School Evaluations Differ by Gender and Minority Status
In the largest analysis to date of narrative medical school evaluations, researchers at UC San Francisco and Brown University have found significant differences in how female and underrepresented
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Archive: UCSF Study Aims to Increase Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials
UC San Francisco is collaborating with the nonprofit Lazarex Cancer Foundation on a three-year study to identify ways to improve cancer clinical trial participation among medically underserved populations, including low-income individuals and racial and ethnic minorities.
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Archive: UCSF Unveils Two New Portraits of Former Chancellors
The portraits of J. Michael Bishop and Susan Desmond-Hellmann joined the paintings of other previous chancellors in the Medical Sciences Building.
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Archive: UCSF Website Launches Redesigned Experience
UCSF’s digital front door has a new look and feel. We’re unveiling the first complete overhaul of UCSF.edu since 2015.
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Archive: A New Rx for Diabetes: Lighten Up
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Archive: Study sings the praises of choir membership for lonely older adults
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Archive: Is artificial intelligence intelligent? How machine learning has developed.
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Archive: Corinne Woods, Tireless Community Advocate, Dies at 72
Corinne Woods, a longtime advocate for San Francisco’s waterfront community who served on UC San Francisco’s Community Advisory Group for more than two decades, died on April 1. She was 72. She died
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Archive: Medicaid Could Save $2.6 Billion Within a Year if Just 1 Percent of Recipients Quit Smoking
Reducing smoking, and its associated health effects, among Medicaid recipients in each state by just 1 percent would result in $2.6 billion in total Medicaid savings the following year, according to
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Archive: Living Transplant Donors Need Long-Term Monitoring, Too
While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and
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Archive: Many Nurse Practitioners Cannot Provide Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction
At least six states with high opioid abuse rates also have strong work restrictions that hinder nurse practitioners in prescribing medication that can help treat the problem.
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Archive: Cancer-Killing Combination Therapies Unveiled with New Drug-Screening Tool
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when used alone. Using this
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Archive: Nurse Practitioners Often Restricted From Prescribing Opioid Treatments
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Archive: UC Campuses Prepare for One-Day Labor Strike in April
The University of California is preparing for a one-day unfair labor practice strike across the UC system on April 10.
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Archive: UCSF staff puts on prom for pediatric patients
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Archive: Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System
Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that until recently would have been considered untreatable are experiencing
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Archive: Cancer’s Trick for Dodging the Immune System
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Archive: New Grant Program Supports Innovators at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals has announced the recipients of the inaugural President’s Innovation Fund (PIF) awards. The fund, launched earlier this year, is a new grant-awarding program
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Archive: Brain Scans Spot, Track Alzheimer's
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Archive: Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Management Improved by Brain Scans
A first-of-its-kind national study has found that a form of brain imaging that detects Alzheimer’s-related “plaques” significantly influenced clinical management of patients with mild cognitive
