Can Health, Lifestyle Changes Protect Elders from Alzheimer’s?
Personalized health and lifestyle changes such as increased exercise and socializtion can delay or even prevent memory loss for higher-risk older adults.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFPersonalized health and lifestyle changes such as increased exercise and socializtion can delay or even prevent memory loss for higher-risk older adults.
A gene expression test can accurately predict the best treatment for meningioma patients by measuring the aggressiveness of their tumors and adjusting treatment accordingly.
Two sisters are receiving a breakthrough, FDA-approved treatment for beta thalassemia at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland. This is the first real therapy other than monthly transfusions for a devastating disease that destines people to shorter lives.
UCSF researchers are working across disease specialties. Diabetes researchers are looking at how oncologists use CAR T-cell therapy to reprogram a person’s immune system to attack cancer cells, for example. They hope to similarly reprogram the immune system to fight diabetes.
Looking at a baby’s entire DNA sequence through rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) allows doctors to diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases earlier, sometimes even in utero.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first hospital in the West to administer a newly approved gene therapy to treat beta thalassemia with gene therapy, reducing the need for lifelong blood transfusions.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland’s craniofacial clinic treats more than 400 children each year for head shape conditions with helmet therapy.
A common mutation can help people infected with the COVID-19 virus avoid developing any symptoms.
A new study shows that newborn screening for SCID is the only factor that actually boosts survival rates.
As part of its miniseries on Black excellence in STEM, Carry the One Radio interviewed UCSF’s Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD. The assistant professor of clinical pharmacy shares how he’s improving cardiovascular care for everyone and how he inspires confidence in himself and his students. Find it on your favorite podcast forum.
In a breakthrough, “HT” became the first person in the world to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID.
Quantitative Biosciences Institute’s Nevan Krogan reflects back on the COVID-19 pandemic and how internal and external communications, funding and international partnerships all contributed to a speedy COVID-19 response.