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For Patients With Special Needs, Any Dentist Is Hard to Find

Across California, few dental offices are equipped to accommodate patients with special needs, leaving many patients with no option but to allow their dental diseases to go untreated, sometimes leading to serious health complications. The UCSF School of Dentistry is helping to lead an initiative to build the state’s capacity to provide special needs dental care to every Californian who needs it.

UCSF Releases Report on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Testing Protocols

Scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have concluded an independent review of the appropriateness of the radiation testing protocols used by the California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Navy to assess radiation contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard.

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ER Focus on Immediate Medical Issues Can Miss the Bigger Picture

In what is believed to be one of the first analyses of frequent emergency department users to include integrated medical, behavioral and social service data, a new UCSF study comprehensively examined these patients’ use of both medical and nonmedical services.

EMT taking stretchers through emergency room doors.

Mental Health on the Margins

Richard Feng, MD, shares a window into his world as a community psychiatrist in San Francisco.

Photo of Richard Feng, MD, in front of a mural of painted dragons, in Chinatown, San Francisco.