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UCSF Honors Nancy Pelosi for Her Extraordinary Leadership on HIV/AIDS
U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi was honored at UCSF with the first ever Bay Area Global Health Alliance Leadership Award for championing policies supporting people living with AIDS/HIV throughout her career.
UCSF Professor’s Drive to End Mental Health Stigma Inspired by Father
Stephen Hinshaw, PhD is a distinguished professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at UCSF. It was his own personal mental health journey that Hinshaw knew could be looming once he began to understand the genesis of his dad’s struggles.
Do Combination Therapies Hold Hope for Prostate Cancer Patients?
A phase 1 trial shows promise in treating metastatic prostate cancer with a single priming dose of radioligand therapy and immunotherapy.
When Surgeons See Spine Surgeries in 3D, Patients Benefit
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland used innovative 3D imaging during surgery to help correct a scoliosis patient's curved spine.
Breast Cancer Riddle: Best Ways to Screen and Treat
Laura Esserman discusses breast cancer risk factors, progress in the field and the importance of tailoring treatment for women with low-risk cancer while also identifying women at high risk of invasive cancer.
New Care Model Delivers Hepatitis C Treatment to Most Vulnerable
UCSF researchers developed a new neighborhood-based model of care that brings medicine to people immediately after being diagnosed with hepatitis C.
Homeless People Are 16 Times More Likely to Die Suddenly
A UCSF-led found that people who are experiencing homelessness have a 16-fold higher rate of sudden death from heart attacks, as well as other causes.