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How Your Brain Manages Cholesterol Could Increase Alzheimer’s Risk

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like changes in sleep, anxiety and depression can be early signs of the disease. These symptoms can appear decades prior to the onset of cognitive decline, but the mechanisms underlying degeneration at these stages is unclear.

Aging Women’s Brain Mysteries Are Tested in Trio of Studies

The Unusual Layout of This Clinic Is Designed To Help Children With Chronic Pain

Napping More as You Get Older? Here’s Why That May Not Be a Good Thing

Chad Burns

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Chad Burns, senior public information representative at UCSF, manages media relations for the UCSF School of Dentistry, UCSF Health Hyde and Stanyan Hospitals, and several UCSF Health services, particularly outpatient care.

UCSF’s Fred Chang Is Honored with Election to AAAS

Cell biologist Fred Chang, MD, PhD, has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a highly esteemed lifetime honor within the scientific community.

Jared Marsh

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Liver Disease Patients Dramatically Improve Thanks to New Approach

UCSF’s multidisciplinary clinic for patients with liver disease and alcohol addiction, called HALT – Healing Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Together, is one of only a few in the country that provides medical, addiction and pharmaceutical care for patients as part of its services.

UCSF Fresno Celebrates 50 Years of Training Local Doctors

Since 1975, and for the 50 years since, the UCSF Fresno campus has established deep ties to the Central Valley, and greatly expanded access to critical healthcare in the area.

Meet the Proud UCSF Employees Related by Blood, Marriage and Mission

There is an unusually high occurrence of families that all work at UCSF, be it married couples, siblings, parents and their children, etc. This feature story highlights a few of those families across the enterprise.

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