Archive: 2019’s Highlights from Across UCSF
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
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Archive: UCSF’s 11 Most Popular Health and Science Stories of 2019
Browse the stories that most engaged our readers in 2019.
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Archive: New Personal Fundraising Platform Brings UCSF Community ‘Together’ in 2019
The Together at UCSF platform makes it easy for anyone to create a personal fundraising page to honor a friend, remember a loved one, or campaign for a cause.
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Archive: In Childhood Cancer, Private Insurance Means Better Survival
Children and young adults with pediatric cancer are less likely to be alive five and 10 years following diagnosis if their health insurance is public, compared to those with private insurance.
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Archive: Fixing nature’s genetic mistakes in the womb. Will this alternative to abortion or chronic care work?
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Archive: California Selects UCSF Trauma Screening Tool for Statewide Initiative to Combat Adverse Childhood Experiences
The California Department of Health Care Services has approved the use of a screening tool for Medi-Cal patients that helps pediatricians identify Adverse Childhood Experiences that can lead to increased health risks in patients. It is the only tool of its kind to qualify for pediatric Medi-Cal payments.
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Archive: Sidelined: Youth Sports Injuries
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Archive: Many Patients with Anorexia Nervosa Get Better, But Complete Recovery Elusive to Most
Three in four patients with anorexia nervosa make a partial recovery. But just 21 percent make a full recovery, a milestone that is most likely to signal permanent remission.
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Archive: Amid vape epidemic, Marin researcher sheds light on e-cigarette waste
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Archive: Pregnant people are being offered an unproven treatment to “reverse” abortions
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Archive: Minds Scarred by Wildfire: How Disasters Linger
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Archive: The Sudafed Solution to the Vaping Problem
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Archive: Anorexia Nervosa Comes in All Sizes, Including Plus Size
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa whose weight is in the healthy, overweight or obese ranges face similar cardiovascular and other health complications as their counterparts with low BMI.
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Archive: How to survive the daylight saving switch when you have little kids
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Archive: Rare Mutations Drive Cystic Fibrosis in Caribbean
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic is dominated by unusual gene mutations not often observed in previously studied CF populations. Majority of Dominican patients had no detectable mutations at all in the gene that is thought to drive 95 percent of CF cases.
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Archive: New Center to Improve Emergency Response for Children Across Five Western States
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is leading a consortium of more than 60 agencies across five states to establish a West Coast Center of Excellence in Pediatric Disaster Care, aimed at improving emergency pediatric disaster-response capabilities throughout the region.
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Archive: UCSF finds major clue to the cause of sudden-onset paralysis in children
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Archive: ‘Missing’ Virus Detected in Dozens of Children Paralyzed by Polio-Like Illness
Research team has detected the immunological remnants of a common seasonal virus in spinal fluid from dozens of patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The findings provide the clearest evidence to date that AFM is caused by an enterovirus (EV) that invades and impairs the central nervous system.
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Archive: Virtual Reality View of Mutations Can Reveal Better Ways to Treat Cancer
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Archive: UCSF researchers sift through garbage in parking lots to find out what kids are smoking
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Archive: E-Cigarettes, Tobacco and Cannabis Products Are Littering High Schools
High schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are being contaminated by plastics and toxic litter from e-cigarettes, cannabis products and combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigarillos.
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Archive: Abortion Laws Must Be Based on Science. The Louisiana Law Before the Supreme Court is Not | Opinion
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Archive: Stem Cell Studies Offer Hope for Childhood Neurological Condition
International team of researchers report progress in using stem cells to develop new therapies for Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, a rare genetic condition affecting boys that can be fatal before 10 years of age.
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Archive: Child Diagnosed With Rare Blood Cancer Saved by UCSF 'Miracle' Treatment
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Archive: Anxiety, depression tied to more ER visits with childhood asthma
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Archive: ER Visits Escalate When Kids with Asthma Also Have Depression, Anxiety
Children with asthma have a higher likelihood of also suffering from anxiety and depression, and when all three conditions are present, patients are almost twice as likely as those with asthma alone to seek care in the Emergency Room.
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Archive: Bay Area family's journey from cancer to hospital music programs around the world
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Archive: Health Experts Weigh in on Mysterious Vaping-Related Lung Illnesses
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Archive: How a Powerful Genetic Test Found a Life-Saving Therapy for an Infant’s Rare Cancer
A new genetic test found that Quincy's aggressive blood cancer had an unusual mutation on the FLT3 gene. That gave Quincy’s doctors a life-saving idea.
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Archive: Infant with Deadly Leukemia Saved by Drug for Adult Liver Cancer
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have successfully treated a months-old infant with a rare childhood leukemia using a targeted therapy approved for adults with inoperable liver cancer and advanced kidney cancer.