Latinos, Blacks Might Survive Longer with Alzheimer's, Study Suggests
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In the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, people experience mild memory loss and confusion. These challenges are significant, but people often maintain much of their normal capability and spirit. Now, a specialized support group program is being formed at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center ...
As America struggles under the growing weight of Alzheimer's and obesity, two UCSF scientists at the affiliated Gladstone Institutes demonstrate why basic science might be our best hope...
From the A-bomb to XP, James Cleaver has become an expert on DNA repair and the "fundamental derangement" we know as cancer...
Two new large-scale genomic studies have honed in on the main genetic pathway associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), while also uncovering new genetic variations in the disease and suggesting a possible link between MS and other autoimmune diseases.
Women who experienced cognitive decline over a 13 to 15 year period after age 65 were more likely to sleep poorly than women whose cognition did not decline, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center is offering a new support group for people in the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease and their family members.
A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person's risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same level of active therapeutic chemical and produces the same biological effect as smoking cannabis, but without the harmful toxins, according to UCSF researchers.
Sleep disorder expert Tom Neylan explains what you lose if you don't snooze...
March 12 seminar educates transplant recipients on skin cancer riskA special seminar at UCSF on Monday, March 12, will focus on educating transplant patients about the potential risk of skin cancer.
Macular degeneration is the major cause of vision loss in the United States. The disease, which kills photoreceptors that convey visual signals from the eye to the brain, often strikes the elderly. Its defining symptom is blurriness in the central visual field, a blurriness that robs many people of their ability to drive or read.
American women are struggling to "do it all" and are sacrificing sleep to juggle their family and work responsibilities, according to a new survey led by a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.
Exposure to hot baths or hot tubs can lead to male infertility, but the effects can sometimes be reversible, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco urologist.
A study underway at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and UCSF is probing the connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbances and stress hormones. Investigators hope the study will reveal a new potential method for treating PTSD, as well as shed light on the biology of sleep
The study also incorporated a pain model developed at UCSF that provided a standardized reference point. This model allowed researchers to compare relief of chronic HIV-associated neuropathic pain simultaneously with patient response to pain and skin sensitivity.
UCSF neuroscientists Louis Ptáček, MD, Ying-Hui Fu, PhD, and colleagues are exploring the body's biological rhythms. Sometimes these are referred to as "clocks," and at other times as circadian rhythms.
Scientists have shown in the past that psychological stress is linked to weight gain and fat storage -- especially added fat around the waistline, where it raises the risk of heart disease.
A protein called HIPK2 is essential for the survival of dopamine neurons, the cells lost in Parkinson's disease, according to a study in mice. The results suggest that the molecular pathway in which the protein functions could be a possible new target for therapy, the study authors say.
Two novel treatments -- a basic compound found in every cell in the body and an extract of green tea -- may prevent brain damage caused from stroke, according to two studies in rats led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The second edition of the only comprehensive textbook on inherited disorders of the immune system, co-edited by UCSF Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics Jennifer Puck, MD, will soon be published in the United States. The new version has mushroomed in size from 35 to 48 chapters, reflecting the increase in the number of primary immune deficiency diseases that have been identified, as well as new information on their causes and treatments.
A long-term study of the most widely used osteoporosis drug has found that many women can discontinue the drug after five years without increasing their fracture risk for as long as five more years.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics and epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, has been named editor of the "Perspectives" section of the journal <i>Ambulatory Pediatrics</i>, which focuses on reviews of important pediatric topics, with an emphasis on research findings in the previous five years and on identifying areas for future study.
UCSF faculty and lung cancer survivors met recently to discuss new developments with the disease.