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Two demonstration projects that aim to yield quick results for patients have been selected by the new California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, a public-private effort launched by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
According to a study of California medical centers, not-for-profit hospitals do not always provide as much subsidized care for patients living in poverty as their for-profit counterparts.
As physicians push back against new requirements for maintaining medical board certifications, a study by UCSF and Stanford University finds the costs of implementation will be an estimated $5.7 billion over the next 10 years.
Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UCSF researchers and collaborators.
In a project spearheaded by investigators at UCSF, scientists have devised a new strategy to precisely modify human T cells using the genome-editing system known as CRISPR/Cas9.
After decades of overtreatment for low-risk prostate cancer and inadequate management of its more aggressive forms, patients are now more likely to receive medical care matched to level of risk, according to a UCSF study.
Older adults with dementia who live at home are at high risk of having pain, according to UC San Francisco researchers, and creative interventions and programs such as home-based palliative care are needed to manage their pain adequately.
Smokers who successfully lowered their nicotine intake when they were switched to low-nicotine cigarettes were unable to curb their smoking habits in the long term, according to a study by UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
How too much sugar can make you sick.
Women who use feminine care products called douches may increase their exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates.
Special efforts should be made to identify and treat depression and urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women with vaginal symptoms, according to UC San Francisco researchers.
A new analysis estimates that $22 billion was spent on global health aid in 2013, yet only a fifth of this went toward such global imperatives as research on diseases that disproportionally affect the poor, outbreak preparedness and global health leadership.
Despite a modest upswing in the number of hospitals equipped to perform angioplasty, a life-saving procedure for heart disease that should be carried out promptly, nearly 50 million residents of the continental United States face travel times of more than one hour to reach them, according to a new study.
A blood-borne molecule that increases in abundance as we age blocks regeneration of brain cells and promotes cognitive decline, suggests a new study.
Common extra heartbeats known as premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) may be a modifiable risk factor for congestive heart failure and death.
