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Archive: Macular Degeneration: Preserving Eyesight Through Regeneration Science
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.
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Archive: Women sacrifice sleep to "Do It All," survey finds
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.
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Archive: Hot tubs hurt fertility, UCSF study shows
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.
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Archive: UCSF Researchers Seek Volunteers for Study on Connections Between Stress and Sleep
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
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Archive: Smoked Cannabis Reduces Pain Caused by HIV-Associated Neuropathy
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.
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Archive: Early-to-Bed Mice Offer Window into Sleep Disorders, Other Conditions
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.
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Archive: UCSF researchers seek overweight women for study of stress reduction and weight management
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.
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Archive: Brain protein pathway may be a key to Parkinson's 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.
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Archive: New treatments prevent brain injury after stroke in rats
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.
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Archive: Jennifer Puck, Pioneer Researcher in Immunodeficiency and X-SCID
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.
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Archive: Are Most Lung Cancer Deaths Among Long-Term Smokers Preventable with Affordable Screening?
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Archive: Lung cancer: New insights - New Hope
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Archive: New Drugs Target Treatment-Resistant Leukemia
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Archive: Gladstone Researchers Identify Enzyme that May Protect Against Plaque Build Up Causing Alzheimers
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified a potential new avenue for reducing the build up of toxic amyloid (Ab) proteins, which are suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Archive: Cannabis Use Can Improve Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Therapy
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Archive: Obesity & Starvation on KQED Forum
On Tuesday, August 15, <i>KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny </i>assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain.
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Archive: Childhood obesity caused by "toxic environment" of Western diets, study says
A UCSF researcher has determined that a key reason for the epidemic of pediatric obesity, now the most commonly diagnosed childhood ailment, is that high-calorie, low-fiber Western diets promote hormonal imbalances that encourage children to overeat.
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Archive: Viral Genetic Differences are Possible Key to HIV Dementia
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.
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Archive: Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought
Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.
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Archive: UCSF Scientist and Colleagues Find We May Sleep Even Less than We Think
A paper published in the July 1, 2006, issue of American Journal of Epidemiology reports that early-middle-aged people (38-50 years) appear to sleep much less than they should, and even less than they think they do.
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Archive: UCSF Ophthalmologists Help Characterize Fungal Eye Infections
In a recent report published online in <i>Archives of Ophthalmology</i>, Maria Bernal, MD, a clinical fellow at UCSF's Proctor Foundation, and David Hwang, MD, FACS, professor of clinical ophthalmology and director of the Cornea Service at UCSF, along with colleagues in UCSF's Department of Ophthalmology, provide one of the first reports of an outbreak of soft contact lens-associated corneal infections due to <i>Fusarium</i>, an uncommon type of fungus.
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Archive: UCSF's Boxer Comments on Promising Alzheimer's Vaccine Study
A recent Japanese study found that a potential DNA vaccine for Alzheimer's disease cut levels of amyloid proteins in the brain.
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Archive: Sleeping Really Strange Hours? Maybe a Rogue Gene is to Blame
The earliest-rising morning larks and the most extreme night owls may have a reason to blame genes — sometimes just one gene -- for their being out of sync with the rest of us.
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Archive: Closer Scrutiny of Culture Warranted in Latino Pediatric Obesity Research
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, says that researchers should more closely scrutinize the cultural origins of attitudes toward food, weight and body image when studying obesity in Latino children.
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Archive: Potential New Treatment Strategy Identified for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain and Spinal Cord
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
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Archive: UCSF Autism Expert Sees Decline in Hype and Hysteria
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
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Archive: Gladstone Scientists Prove Neurons Produce Alzheimer's-Linked Apolipoprotein E
A question long debated among Alzheimer's disease researchers has been definitively answered by scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco.
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Archive: For Some Insomniacs, "Z Drugs" Bring On More Than Just Sleep
Sleeping pill sales have increased dramatically in the past year — in part due to hundreds of millions of dollars spent on direct advertising to consumers.
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Archive: Light adjustable lens shows promise for improved vision for cataract patients
A new light-adjustable intraocular lens is showing promise for clearer vision for cataract patients, according to results from early clinical trials.