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UCSF Commentary: Pediatricians’ Breastfeeding Advice Should Rely on Evidence, Not Social Advocacy
According to a new commentary, it’s important for pediatricians to balance their roles as social advocates with the need to provide the most accurate medical information when counseling women on the benefits of breastfeeding.
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ER closures raise deaths at nearby hospitals
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Dementia risk in old age hinges on factors throughout life
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When former prisoners don't get health care, there are consequences
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Higher Chance of Hospital Death Found in Areas Where Emergency Departments Have Closed
In the first analysis of its kind, UCSF research shows that emergency department closures can have a ripple effect on patient outcomes at nearby hospitals.
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Festival To Celebrate Opening of New Mission Bay Medical Center
To mark the near-completion of the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, UCSF is holding a celebratory Hard Hat Walk followed by the Lights On Festival, featuring food, music and a spectacular light show on Sept. 6.
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Toward Personalized Medicine for Kidney Transplant Recipients
UCSF is the lead institution on a new seven-year, $17 million multicenter study to determine if certain immune system cells and/or a drug can be effective in improving and maintaining the long-term health of kidney transplant recipients.
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Study Finds ER Closures Affect Mortality Risks At Nearby Hospitals
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Study: Emergency room closures can be deadly for area's residents
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Commentary: It’s Time to Address the Health of Men Around the World
All over the world, men die younger than women and do worse on a host of health indicators, yet policy makers rarely focus on this “men’s health gap” or adopt programs aimed at addressing it, according to an international group of researchers and health charity workers.
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Gene Behind Rare Birth Abnormality Is a Window on Evolution
A UCSF physician who treats birth defects affecting the face has teamed up with a European expert on animal evolution to create rodent teeth that harken back in evolutionary time.
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Key to Aging Immune System Is Discovered
The immune system ages and weakens with time, making the elderly prone to life-threatening infection and other maladies, and a UCSF research team now has discovered a reason why.
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The Mysterious Tree of a Newborn’s Life
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Kids with Autism, Sensory Processing Disorders Show Brain Wiring Differences
Researchers at UCSF have found that children with sensory processing disorders have decreased structural brain connections in specific sensory regions different than those in autism, further establishing SPD as a clinically important neurodevelopmental disorder.
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UCSF Medical Center, John Muir Health Collaborating to Develop New Company and Regional Health Care Network
UCSF Medical Center and John Muir Health have signed a letter of intent to develop a company that will serve as the cornerstone of a Bay Area health care network intended to provide patients with high quality care and an exceptional experience at an affordable price.
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Caring for Donors
To make follow-up care more accessible, UC San Francisco and Walgreens are collaborating to launch the first program in the country that provides blood pressure testing at no charge to living kidney donors.
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Healthy Lifestyle May Buffer Against Stress-Related Cell Aging, Study Says
A new study is the first to show that while the impact of life’s stressors accumulate over time and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleeping well.
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Stem Cell Advance May Increase Efficiency of Tissue Regeneration
A new stem-cell discovery might one day lead to a more streamlined process for obtaining stem cells, which in turn could be used in the development of replacement tissue for failing body parts.
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New Clinics in California Seek to Stop Schizophrenia Before it Starts
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Study links veterans' traumatic brain injuries to Alzheimer's
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Stress is contagious, but it's not all bad for larger society
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Wallhagen Named Chairperson of HLAA Board of Trustees
Margaret Wallhagen, professor of gerontological nursing in the UCSF School of Nursing and a geriatric nurse practitioner, has been named chair of the Board of Trustees of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the nation’s leading organization for people with hearing loss.
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Schapiro Receives Grant to Support East Bay Children with Chronic Conditions
Naomi Schapiro was awarded a three-year Advanced Nursing Education Grant to fund interprofessional training of students and graduate trainees in the collaborative care of children with mental health conditions and obesity in Alameda County.
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Viewing Dentistry in a New Light
A new technology uses near-infrared light to better detect cavities without the radiation of X-rays. It's one of several innovations that could soon change your dental chair experience.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Has Strong Presence in Second-Ever Meeting of World Transplant Congress in San Francisco
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Skin Cancer Prevention Tips that Doctors Swear By
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Talk and read to your baby, Hillary Clinton and local groups advise
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Prusiner Appointed to Board of Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research
Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner, MD, has been appointed as a member of the board of directors for the Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR).
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UCSF, The University of Toledo Create Research Center for Musculoskeletal Innovation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has tapped UCSF as the lead institution in a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC).