Archive: Simple Blood Test Unmasks Concussions Absent on CT Scans
Blood test that is currently under development may flag concussion in CT-negative patients, enabling them to be evaluated for long-term complications.
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Archive: Chemical Exposure Web Tool Defines Risks Faced by Millions of California Women
A new web tool spells out for the first time the exposures that more than 6.5 million working women in California face that could increase their risk for breast cancer, including industrial solvents, antimicrobials and phthalates.
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Archive: Tobacco Vs. E-Cigarette Use Differs Among SF Public Schools
Eighty-eight percent of the e-cigarette waste collected was found at schools serving predominantly upper-income families with mostly white student populations. None were found at schools serving predominantly low- and middle-income families with large Latinx and African American populations.
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Archive: Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire
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Archive: Scorpion Toxin That Targets ‘Wasabi Receptor’ May Help Solve Mystery of Chronic Pain
Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor,” which they think it can be used as a tool for studying chronic pain and inflammation, and may eventually lead to the development of new kinds of non-opioid pain relievers.
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Archive: Increasing Blood Pressure Medications at Hospital Discharge May Pose Serious Risk
Increasing medications for blood pressure when discharging older patients from the hospital may pose a greater risk of falls, fainting and acute kidney injury that outweighs the potential benefits.
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Archive: Upping Seniors' Blood Pressure Meds After Hospital Can Sometimes Bring Danger
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Archive: New Clues on Stem Cell Transplant Rejection Revealed in Study
Study shows that the adult-to-iPSC conversion process can mutate DNA found in mitochondria, causing mice and humans to reject iPSCs, and stem cell transplants more generally.
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Archive: Moisturizers May Be Turning Your Skin Into ‘Swiss Cheese’
Researchers want to learn how to repair certain types of skin rather than providing short-term relief.
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Archive: Tweaked CRISPR in Neurons Gives Scientists New Power to Probe Brain Diseases
In a paper researchers describe a technique that uses a special version of CRISPR developed at UCSF to systematically alter the activity of genes in human neurons generated from stem cells, the first successful merger of stem cell-derived cell types and CRISPR screening technologies.
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Archive: Molecular Recycling in the Brain May Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
Scientists identify faulty molecular recycling as potential driver of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Archive: The Morning-est Morning People
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Archive: Pregnant moms who breathe dirty air have children with lower IQs, study finds
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Archive: Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
UCSF scientists show that Alzheimer’s disease directly attacks brain regions responsible for wakefulness during the day.
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Archive: Is Your Sleep Cycle Out of Sync? It May Be Genetic
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Archive: Genome Study Reveals Clues to Komodo Dragon’s Unique Abilities
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Archive: Half of San Francisco’s homeless population is 50-years-old or older, UCSF initiative shows
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Archive: Most Seniors with Dementia Live at Home, Despite Pain, Anxiety, Poor Health
Study has revealed that seniors with dementia living at home may endure more pain and have more complex or unaddressed medical needs than their counterparts in nursing homes.
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Extreme Early Birds Are More Common Than Previously Believed
Advanced sleep phase that lures people to sleep at 8 p.m., enabling them to wake up as early as 4 a.m — previously believed to be very rare — may affect at least one in 300 adults.
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Archive: Confused About Sunscreen Ingredients? Here's What We've Learned
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Archive: Team IDs Spoken Words and Phrases in Real Time from Brain’s Speech Signals
UCSF scientists have for the first time decoded spoken words and phrases in real time from the brain signals that control speech.
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Archive: Unraveling the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies
Since 2017, UCSF researchers Winston Chiong and Eddie Chang have led a collaborative neuroethics research project funded by the NIH.
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Archive: The keto moment
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Archive: Scientists Can Finally Build Feedback Circuits in Cells
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Archive: ‘Limitless Potential’ of Artificial Protein Ushers in New Era of ‘Smart’ Cell Therapies
Researchers devised “smart” cells that behave like tiny autonomous robots which may be used to detect damage and disease, and deliver help at just the right time and in just the right amount.
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Archive: Worrisome Increase in Some Medical Scans During Pregnancy
Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, with nearly a four-fold rise over the last two decades in the number of women undergoing CT scans.
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Archive: Allergy, Asthma Risk Are Increased by Microbial Compound in Infant Gut
A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.
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Archive: Radical Reform Needed to Address Dental Decay Worldwide
Oral diseases, such as tooth decay, gum disease and oral cancers, are a major health burden affecting 3.5 billion people worldwide, but are largely ignored by the global health community, according to
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Archive: Multiple Sclerosis Attacks Brain’s ‘Projection Neurons’
Brain damage associated with MS specifically targets a common class of brain cells called projection neurons
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Archive: LGBTQ Americans Could Be At Higher Risk For Dementia, Study Finds