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‘Patient-Led Revolution’: With Menopause Medicine Booming, Here’s How to Find a Specialist
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Tinted Sunscreen Does Something Regular Sun Protection Can’t
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Some Breast Tumors Tunnel Into Fat to Fuel Up. Can We Stop Them?
A UCSF team discover how breast cancer tumors tunnel into neighboring fat cells to trigger fat breakdown in order to feed on fat and grow.
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From Chronic Pain to Parkinson’s, 4 Ways DBS is Changing Care
UCSF looks back on four ways it pioneered deep brain stimulation with the help of federal funding, helping patients with Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, depression, and more.
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What Causes Shoulder Osteoarthritis? This Study Hopes to Find Out
The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and the Arthritis Foundation have awarded a $500,000 multicenter research grant to UCSF Health’s Michael Davies, MD, and co-principal
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This Protein Slows the Aging Brain, and We Know How to Counter It
Scientists discover a protein that gets concentrated in the brain during aging, leading brain connections to wither and cognitive decline to accelerate - and a way to counter its effects.
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Treating Chronic Pain is Hard. An Experimental Approach Shows Promise.
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Two UCSF Researchers Are Named Pew Latin American Fellows
Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 annual stipend for two years to support their work at the crossroads of immunology and neuroscience.
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New Device Reduces Heart Failure Symptoms
The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in
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This Chemical Trick Could Turn Losing Malaria Drug Into a Winner
A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.
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10 Red Flags That #SkinnyTok Is Infecting Your Brain
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Composer Reimagines His Harvey Milk Opera While Rebuilding Life After Traumatic Injury
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2 of UCSF’s Best Mentors Reveal the Keys to Successful Mentoring
Award-winning UCSF mentors Judith Hellman and Tor Neilands share their keys to success: deep commitment, individualized support, empathy, and responsiveness. They emphasize listening, tailoring guidance, and utilizing UCSF’s robust mentoring resources to foster future generations.
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Big Data Begins to Crack the Case of Endometriosis
Records from millions of patients at University of California health centers found correlations between endometriosis, one of the most common diseases in women, and a bounty of other diseases.
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Pandemic Aged Our Brains Faster, Whether or Not We Got COVID, Study Says
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How UCSF Is Helping African Infectious Disease Researchers Take the Lead
UC San Francisco’s Paul Farmer African Initiative for Research (PFAIR) supports African scientists in infectious disease research via mentorship, international collaboration, and sustainable funding.
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Meet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind
Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences. The information could help people who have had strokes and lost the ability to create sentences.
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Why Smart People Fall for False Information and What to do About It
UCSF’s Joseph Pierre, MD, unveils why even bright minds embrace false information. His new book, "False," dissects cognitive biases and our digital world’s role, offering a powerful three-step approach to navigate the post-truth era and rediscover common ground.
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UCSF Health Named Among Nation’s Best for 2025-2026
UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s best hospitals in adult care in U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals survey.
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How Aging Quiets Lupus and Brings Relief to Some Older Patients
Chaz Langelier and team discover a partial explanation for why lupus gets better as patients age. It's because inflammation-related genes get muffled - the opposite of what usually happens in healthy aging - and inflammation is tempered.
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These Immune Cells Eat Molecular Trash to Keep Alzheimer’s at Bay
Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates during Alzheimer's disease.
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Why This Video Producer Says ‘Teamwork Makes the Dream Work’
This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a day in their work life. Here we meet Isaac Conway-Stenzel, an ETS senior video producer/director.
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This is How to Cut Hospital Visits for Kids with Eating Disorders
A study finds that getting any amount of outpatient therapy after being hospitalized with eating disorders lowers the risk for re-hospitalization for youth on Medi-Cal.
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Gift Launches $200M Initiative for the Weill Cancer Hub West
A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the Weill Cancer Hub West — an innovative collaboration among some of the nation’s most talented scientists that aims to transform cancer research and care in the next decade.
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UCSF Health Services Continue During One-Day Strike
UCSF Health will continue regular operations during a one-day strike that is planned for July 25.
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Many Lung Cancers Are Now in Nonsmokers. Scientists Want to Know Why.
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UCSF Experts Featured at National Endocrinology Meeting
Endocrine disruption during pregnancy and genetic drivers of bone disease were among the topics experts from UC San Francisco presented at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society — ENDO 2025 — in
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Do These Two Cancer Drugs Have What It Takes to Beat Alzheimer’s?
Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its symptoms.
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Tailored Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Walking in Parkinson’s
For patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in their ability to walk can be dramatic. “Parkinson’s gait,” as it is often called, can include changes in step length and asymmetry between legs. This