On The Week, the weekly news podcast from The Scientist, feature contributor Gail Dutton talks with Steven Deeks, MD, associate clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, about "elite controllers," HIV-infected patients who are resistant to the onset of the disease.
Cynthia Kim, MD, a pediatrician at UCSF Children's Hospital, talks to KPIX -TV's Dr. Kim Mulvihill about the FDA warning that users of the flu medication Tamiflu should be monitored for reported bizarre side effects.
When Titus Chang was an infant, he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a life-threatening condition which stopped his body from producing enough blood cells.
A study of almost 600,000 men aged 70 and older reveals that 56 percent had a routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, a blood test for prostate cancer, even though no treatment guidelines recommend PSA screening for men of that age.
UCSF medical school Professor and Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Paul D. Blanc, MD, reveals how commonplace products have poisoned significant sectors of the human population in his first book, How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (University of California Press).
Malcolm John, MD, MPH, director of PositiveHealth Practice at UCSF (PHP-UCSF) and the Men of Color Program, and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Infectious Disease, is interviewed in the KGO studio about why minority and impoverished communities have a higher rate of HIV infection than other groups, and discusses a UCSF program aimed at turning around this trend.
There are two types of diabetes that affect children. Do you know the factors that can put a child at risk? Steve Rosenthal, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics at UCSF, talks about pediatric obesity.