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What to Know About Menopause: Latest Guidance to Empower Women
UCSF experts explain menopause symptoms, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), benefits, risks, and new guidelines to help women make informed treatment decisions.
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Why it Might Be Time to Reassess Your Long-term Prostate Medication
Researchers found that one in three men had minimal symptomatic benefits from tamsulosin, the most commonly prescribed medication for older men with a form of urinary tract infections, and suggest that they should be deprescribed of this medication.
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Could These Tiny Organs Save Millions of Lives?
UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They are also addressing the limitations holding the field back: giving organoids a vascular system and making organoids reproducible.
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New Program at UCSF and UC Berkeley Will Drive Advances in Medicine
UCSF and UC Berkeley have launched a joint program to develop the frontier of AI in biomedicine and accelerate advances in clinical care.
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FDA Clears Zyn: Will Nicotine Pouches Hook a New Generation?
UCSF’s Dr. Pamela Ling explains why the FDA’s Zyn ruling risks a new generation of nicotine addiction, despite being marketed as a safer cigarette alternative.
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Genetic Test Ranks Risk for Black People Hoping to Donate a Kidney
A UCSF study followed Black kidney donors to see if they faced elevated risks for low kidney function, and found that many had a gene that meant it may be less safe in a small percentage.
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Yes, Telemedicine Can Reduce Alcohol Use for Liver Disease Patients
Alcohol use disorder is a major cause of disease and premature death worldwide. For people with chronic liver disease (CLD), there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Yet many patients with this
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A Single Molecular Change May Help Viruses Jump from Bat to Human
UCSF scientists discovered that a small change to a SARS-CoV-2 protein dictates whether the virus lives quietly in bats or causes disease in people. Understanding these changes could help scientists predict or prevent future pandemics.
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This New App Helps Congenital Heart Patients with Specialty Care
Congenital heart disease is a condition primarily associated with infants and children, but that is changing. More adults than children now live with congenital heart disease (ACHD) in the U.S., an
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I’m a Neurologist. Here’s How to Protect Your Aging Brain
UCSF expert Kristine Yaffe, MD, explores how targeting modifiable risk factors—like sleep and exercise—can actively protect your aging brain.
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Can We Convince the Body’s “Big Eater” Cells to Devour Tumors?
Roarke Kamber earns funding for research that directs the immune system’s “big eaters,” macrophages, to eat tumor cells.
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Brain Stimulation That Adapts to Parkinson’s Patients’ Every Step
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a new form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that adjusts in real time as a person walks, helping to improve gait and reduce falls in people with Parkinson’s
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Can Diet and Lifestyle Help Prevent Cancer and Improve Survival?
See three examples of how food and lifestyle choices — from plant-based eating to ketogenic diets — help slow cancer progression, improve survival, and make some existing cancer treatments more effective.
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How a New AI Framework Can Help Doctors Build Better Tools
Researchers at UCSF developed a new way to build clinical prediction tools that combines the speed of artificial intelligence with the judgment of human experts.
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Women with HIV Are More Likely to Die from Trauma than the Virus
A new UCSF study looks at the real reasons women with HIV are dying earlier than people without HIV, and finds these leading causes are largely missing from official death records.
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This is How to Beat the Tumor Cells That Survive Cancer Therapy
A UCSF team developed an automated system for seeing and understanding persister cells, the tumor cells that survive cancer treatment and regrow tumors.
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Understanding How Brain Aneurysms Form May Help Predict Ruptures
Ethan Winkler, who studies aneurysms, discovered a dynamic between cells in the brain's blood vessels that explains why aneurysms burst. The findings describe a "life cycle" of an aneurysm and will likely change how physicians assess the risk for rupture and opportunities for personalizing treatment.
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Abortion Hotline Use Soared Even Before Supreme Court Decision
A new study of more than 16,000 people who sought help from a nationwide abortion and miscarriage hotline found demand for confidential clinical support surged both before and after the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned federal abortion protections.
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Women Are Over-Apologizing. It’s More Complex Than You Might Think
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How Big Tobacco Helped Shape the Design of Ultra-Processed Foods
A study looked at how ultraprocessed foods (UPFs), like Lunchables, are designed—and why they may lead to overeating and weight gain. Using internal company documents, the study showed that Lunchables were influenced by strategies from the tobacco industry, specifically Philip Morris, which once owned Kraft.
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Environment June 2, 2026 Nike’s Recycled World Cup Uniforms Sound Groovy, But the Reality Is Complicated
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How New AI Cuts Breast Cancer Screening Time for High-Risk Women
Using AI on mammograms can identify patients at highest risk for breast cancer and get them same-day follow up care, eliminating stressful waiting times.
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Doctor Provides Insight on UCSF Alzheimer’s Blood Test Study
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New Research Helps Explain How Human Brains Are Able Decode Speech So Quickly
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Global Rules Could Cut Costs and Speed Access to GLP-1 Drugs
UCSF research shows that international rules for biosimilars, mimics of biologic drugs like Ozempic and insulin, need to improve and match each another to encourage biosimilar development, testing, and approval. This would dramatically improve drug affordability just like generics has done.
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Do Red Light Therapy Masks Actually Work? Here’s What Dermatologists Say
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Can an Alzheimer’s Blood Test Detect Early, Subtle Cognitive Decline?
About 6% of asymptomatic adults have a biomarker for Alzheimer's disease and are already showing very subtle signs of the disease that would not come to light in a standard cognitive test.
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Innovative Diabetes Researcher Joins National Academy of Sciences
Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, a pioneer in diabetes research and professor of medicine at UCSF, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences — one of the highest honors in American science.
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Improving Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease with AI
A team at UCSF developed a multitask deep learning framework that can effectively predict Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, cognitive scores, and future cognitive decline using only baseline MRI and demographics.