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Easing Complex Medication Management with Computer Tools
<p>For the millions of heart patients taking warfarin, an anticoagulant drug used to prevent dangerous blood clots, dosing is a time-consuming hassle. Too little won’t work; too much can be dangerous.</p>
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What's So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?
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For the Very Old, a Surprise in Blood Pressure Readings
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Helping Multiple Sclerosis Patients Face Dizzying Medication Decisions
<p>There is no cure for multiple sclerosis, but several medications can help slow its devastating effects, and extend healthier years for the roughly 2.5 million people worldwide diagnosed with this chronic neurological disease.</p>
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Inappropriate Heart Procedures Are Expensive and Risky. And Studies Show Thousands Happen Every Year.
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Depression Linked with Increased Risk of Peripheral Artery Disease
Depression was linked with an increased risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD) in a study of more than 1,000 men and women with heart disease conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Robot Prostatectomy Cuts Incontinence, Surgeon Finds
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Revealing the Importance of Culture in Latino Dental Health
<p>Maria Orellana, DDS, PhD, assistant professor in the UCSF School of Dentistry, has long observed that Latino parents are often more resistant to having their children get braces or retainers to straighten teeth than parents of other ethnicities. She found out why.</p>
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Enabling Science Advances at UCSF
<p>UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute is helping UCSF investigators connect with other experts in fields ranging from global health and biostatistics to study design, regulatory knowledge and participant recruitment.</p>
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Helping Kids Describe Cancer Symptoms Through Cartoons and Digital Technology
<p>Preliminary results of a recent study by Christina Baggott, a trained oncology nurse, found that children with cancer were significantly more likely to weigh in on their symptoms when using a kid-friendly touch-screen computer assessment tool, than the standard written checklist.</p>
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Scaffolding Props Up Failing Hearts
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UCSF Study Shows Emergency Rooms in Crisis
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Nanofibers May Quicken Healing After Heart Attacks
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Study Finds Minorities Most Affected by ED Overcrowding
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A Molecule Central to Diabetes Is Uncovered
At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress — microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone.
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Web-Enabled Bathroom Scale Could Monitor Heart Failure from Home
<p>Can a retrofitted bathroom scale costing less than $100 save lives and improve the health of millions of Americans living with heart failure while cutting billions of dollars in annual health care spending?</p>
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CA Hospital Overcrowding Disproportionately Affects Minority Patients, Study Says
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Almost Half of Type 2 Diabetes Patients Report Acute and Chronic Pain
Almost half of adults with type 2 diabetes report acute and chronic pain, and close to one quarter report neuropathy, fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance and physical or emotional disability, according to a study of more than 13,000 adults conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, the University of California, San Francisco and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, CA. The researchers also found significant rates of shortness of breath, nausea and constipation.
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Medical Professionals Step into Virtual World for Training
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Kid-Friendly Environment at Visual Center Allows For Better Eye Exam
<p>When new patients are brought to the UCSF Visual Center for the Child, eye examinations begin even before they enter the doctor’s room.</p>
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Epilepsy Drug Reverses Memory Loss in Alzheimer's Mouse Model
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Hospitals See Spike after Chevron Fire
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Children's Cholesterol Improving Slightly
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Marin County's High Breast Cancer Rate May be Tied to Genetics
Marin County, Calif., has one of the highest rates of breast cancer in the world, a fact that scientists know has nothing to do with the land itself but with some other, unknown factor.
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Minority Patients at Higher Risk of Having Ambulances Diverted
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Posture Tips for Deskbound Workers
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How Digital Culture Is Rewiring Our Brains
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Sleeping Less May Dampen Vaccine Response
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Epilepsy Drug Could Help with Alzheimer's-Related Memory Loss
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered that an FDA-approved anti-epileptic drug reverses memory loss and alleviates other Alzheimer’s-related impairments in an animal model of the disease.
