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UCSF Leads Statewide Efforts to Improve Dementia Care, Diagnosis

A critical step in meeting the needs of the growing aging population is early recognition of cognitive decline. In California, women who live to be 65 or older have a one in four chance of developing any type of dementia and men have a one in six chance. Early detection may help slow progression of cognitive decline and improve quality of life for people living with the condition and their care partners.

COVID ‘Razor Blade Throat’ Rises as New Subvariant Spreads in California

Marijuana Use Dramatically Increases Risk of Dying From Heart Attacks and Stroke, Large Study Finds

What Is Gender-Affirming Care? Your Questions, Answered

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds

What Are The Best Practices For Prostate Cancer Screening?

How State Bans Increase Costs and Delay Abortion Care

People in states that have banned abortion were more than twice as likely to receive them later in pregnancy, according to a new study.

This is How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The breakthrough opens the door to developing entirely new proteins that could, one day, produce medicines to stop diseases like cancer.

Novel Therapy Saves Patient with Severe Heart Inflammation

A new class of drugs that target inflammation can treat acute fulminant myocarditis patients.

UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55

Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and clinical bioinformatics — died on June 13 at the age of 55.

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