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UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging
UCSF is launching a new center to accelerate the application of AI technology to radiology.
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Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work
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UCSF Receives 10 NIH Grants to Study Pain and Opioid Addiction
UCSF researchers have received 10 grants from the NIH’s HEAL Initiative, which aims to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.
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E-Cigarettes, Tobacco and Cannabis Products Are Littering High Schools
High schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are being contaminated by plastics and toxic litter from e-cigarettes, cannabis products and combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigarillos.
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Abortion Laws Must Be Based on Science. The Louisiana Law Before the Supreme Court is Not | Opinion
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New Mural Celebrates Diverse Heroes in Nursing
The UCSF School of Nursing has unveiled a new mural that commemorates a diverse set of nurse heroes whose work and advocacy revolutionized health care and paved the way for diversity and inclusion in nursing.
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UCSF Health Again Named ‘Leader in LGBTQ Health Care Equality’
UCSF Health has been named a 2019 “Leader in LGBTQ Health Care Equality.”
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What Adult Vapers Should Do Now
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New Red Meat Study Confuses Consumers, Exposes Flaws in Nutrition Research
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Key to Learning and Forgetting Identified in Sleeping Brain
Distinct patterns of electrical activity in the sleeping brain may influence whether we remember or forget what we learned the previous day.
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Stem Cell Studies Offer Hope for Childhood Neurological Condition
International team of researchers report progress in using stem cells to develop new therapies for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, a rare genetic condition affecting boys that can be fatal before 10 years of age.
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Valley Fever Is On the Rise – But No One Knows How It Picks Its Victims
In 2017, Valley Fever sent some 14,000 Americans to the doctor’s office, half in California. Most show up with flu-like symptoms and fatigue, but a small number of people develop debilitating infections that spread from the lungs to other parts of the body, including the brain. UCSF researchers are trying to figure how the fungus works and what we can do to stop it.
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Back to School 2019
New courses and programs for students, facts about our incoming class, and voices from our first-gen students.
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Phone support tied to better outcomes for dementia patients, caregivers
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AHA News: Make Neighborhoods Green for Heart Health? The Idea Is Taking Root
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Food Insecurity in Young Adults Raises Risk for Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Asthma
Study finds that young adults in the United States who are food insecure are slightly more likely to be obese, and are significantly more likely to suffer from disorders associated with high BMI, as well as obstructive airway diseases like asthma.
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UCSF Incoming Class 2019: By the Numbers
This fall, UCSF welcomes over 900 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
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Back to School 2019-1
New courses and programs for students, facts about our incoming class, and voices from our first-gen students.
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Three UCSF Researchers Win NIH Grants for High-Risk, High-Reward Research
The NIH has awarded grants to Faranak Fattahi, Alexander Pollen, and Vasanth Vedantham to pursue highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical research.
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Amid the Opioid Epidemic, New Course is Teaching Students to Treat Patients for Addiction
UCSF is teaching nursing and medical students state-of-the-art-treatment for opioid use disorder. When they graduate, they will immediately be able to treat patients for addiction.
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Cooking Food Alters the Microbiome
Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters microbiomes, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health and for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human prehistory.
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Paradise Residents Still Can't Drink the Water
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Monthly Phone Check-In May Mean Less Depression for Families of Patients with Dementia
A monthly, 40-minute phone call from a non-clinical professional may suppress or reverse the trajectory of depression so frequently experienced by family members caring for patients with dementia at home.
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UCSF Launches New Clinic to Keep Athletes Heart Healthy
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Cardiovascular and Orthopaedic Screenings to Former NFL Players
UC San Francisco is teaming up with the Heart, Obesity, Prevention & Education (HOPE) Program of the Living Heart Foundation (LHF) to increase awareness and improve the health of former National Football League (NFL) players.
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Child Diagnosed With Rare Blood Cancer Saved by UCSF 'Miracle' Treatment
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Anxiety, depression tied to more ER visits with childhood asthma
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ER Visits Escalate When Kids with Asthma Also Have Depression, Anxiety
Children with asthma have a higher likelihood of also suffering from anxiety and depression, and when all three conditions are present, patients are almost twice as likely as those with asthma alone to seek care in the Emergency Room.
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‘One-Eyed Sheep’ Talk Takes Top Prize at 2019 Postdoc Slam
Ten finalists competed in the live event, hoping to impress the judges with snappy three-minute summaries of their research.
