Archive: Childhood Adversity Linked with Shorter Telomeres
Major childhood psychological and social stressors, increase the odds of shorter telomere length in adulthood, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
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Archive: Pediatric oncologist says Swim Across America keeps program afloat
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Archive: ‘Video Game’ More Accurate than Standard Tests at ID’ing Kids with Attention Deficits, Study Shows
A digital assessment platform designed to look and feel like a video game may successfully flag children with attention disorders.
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Archive: Mothers of Children with Autism May Face Higher Risks for Heart Disease
Mothers who were raising children with autism and reported chronic stress were more likely to have high levels of “bad” cholesterol and lower levels of protective progenitor cells.
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Archive: Endocrine Society Awards Walter L. Miller Its Lifetime Achievement Award
Walter L. Miller, distinguished professor emeritus and former chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCSF, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the Endocrine Society.
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Archive: San Francisco, Oakland Join Forces to Support Children with Cancer
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are bringing together the cities of San Francisco and Oakland this week, as well as each city’s baseball team, to raise awareness of pediatric cancer.
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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: Buster Posey to Visit UCSF Patients in Honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
San Francisco Giants’ catcher Buster Posey will be meeting with patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco this week, in honor of National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.
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Archive: Childhood Adversity Looms Large for Older Homeless Adults
A new UCSF report on an understudied population – older homeless adults – reveals that adverse childhood experiences have long-lasting effects.
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Archive: Concussion Rates Rising Significantly in Adolescents
The number of Americans diagnosed with concussions is growing, most significantly in adolescents. UCSF researchers recommend that adolescents be prioritized for ongoing work in concussion education, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
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Archive: When Children Are Diagnosed With a Sensory Disorder
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Archive: Breast-Fed Babies May Have Longer Telomeres, Tied to Longevity
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Archive: Early Exclusive Breastfeeding Associated with Longer Telomeres in Latino Preschoolers
Infants who are exclusively breastfed early in life are more likely by age 4 or 5 to have longer telomeres, the protective bits of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes in cells.
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Archive: Childhood Cancer Hijacks Cellular Quality Control System to Fuel Growth
A serious childhood cancer takes advantage of a quality control mechanism that usually protects cells from stress-induced damage to propel tumor growth, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and the University of Pittsburgh.
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Archive: Cutting Sugar Causes Drop in Heart Disease Risk Factors Among Obese Children
Reducing sugar consumption in obese children, rather than cutting calories or starch, or losing weight, leads to a sharp decline in triglycerides and a key protein called ApoC-III – two features that are associated with heart disease in adulthood.
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Archive: Water Dispensers, Cups Encourage School Children to Drink More, Study Shows
School children drink more water if the traditional water fountain is replaced by a dispenser with cups, according to findings of a study led by researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: Assessing Risk Helps Dentists Tailor Preventive Treatments for Young Children
Taking patients’ risk of developing dental caries (“cavities”) into account can help dentists effectively tailor individual prevention and treatment efforts, according to a recent study led by researchers from the UCSF School of Dentistry.
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Archive: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Excel in Pediatric Specialties
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have placed among the nation’s premier children’s hospitals in all 10 pediatric specialties.
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Archive: St. Joseph Health and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Sign Joint Venture Agreement
St. Joseph Health, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals announced a joint venture to enhance and expand neonatal and pediatric services.
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Free To Be He, She, They
There is an increasing demand to address gender dysphoria early in childhood, prior to the onset of puberty. Under the guidance of Stephen Rosenthal, MD, UCSF’s Gender Center is helping parents and their children navigate this difficult terrain.
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Archive: White House, Gates Foundation Summit Explores Applying Precision Medicine to Public Health
About 150 of the nation’s foremost thought leaders in academia, child and public health, policy, technology and data science gathered at UCSF to kick-start the conversation about what can be accomplished in precision public health.
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Archive: Study Indicates Benefits to Treating Young Adults with High Cholesterol
Treating young adults with high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels may reduce risk of future heart attacks and heart disease, according to a study published recently in PLOS One.
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Archive: White House and Gates Foundation to Convene Precision Public Health Summit at UCSF
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are convening a precision public health summit at UCSF to explore how precision approaches can be successfully applied to improve population health and address health disparities.
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Archive: UCSF PlaySafe Screening Could be Lifesaver for San Francisco Teen
Since its inception in 2009, UCSF's PlaySafe program has screened more than 2,450 student-athletes from nearly 20 public and private high schools in San Francisco, the East Bay and the Peninsula.
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Archive: Sporadic Steroids May Be as Effective as Daily Dose for Some Preschoolers with Wheezing
Children aged 6 and under with intermittent wheezing triggered by colds may not need to take inhaled steroids on a daily basis to limit the flare-ups that can result in emergency treatment.
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Archive: A Slight Increase in Pediatric Cancer Risk Seen with Infant Phototherapy
Phototherapy, increasingly used to treat jaundiced infants, could very slightly raise the risk of pediatric cancers, particularly myeloid leukemia, according to epidemiological research published, online Monday, May 23, in Pediatrics.
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Archive: UCSF Researchers Reappraise Treatment for Belly Birth Defect
UC San Francisco researchers have shed light on how the immune system of a fetus can run amok, triggering inflammation in the developing intestines that protrude outside of the body through a hole beside the belly button.
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Archive: Most Asthma Research May Not Apply to African-American Children
Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African-American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population, raising concerns for clinicians and scientists working to stem the asthma epidemic among African-Americans.
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Archive: UCSF and City Extend Support for New Generation Health Center
UCSFand the San Francisco Department of Public Health have committed to continue supporting New Generation Health Center for an additional year, enabling the center to provide reproductive health care in the community through June 2017.
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Archive: ‘Inexpensive Old Drug’ May Prevent Brain Damage in High-Risk Newborns, Study Shows
A 27-year-old drug for anemia may protect newborns at high risk for brain damage, according to the results of a multisite trial led by researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: Scientists ID Gene Behind Rare Childhood Syndrome
In a study of 10 children published online in the American Journal of Human Genetics on April 14, the researchers linked a constellation of birth defects affecting the brain, eye, ear, heart and kidney to mutations in a single gene, called RERE.