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Archive: To Stop COVID-19 Spread in Schools, Start with Local Data and Do the Math
A new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals shows that public data and a simple equation may be all that is required to estimate the number of students infected with COVID-19 who might be in a classroom.
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Archive: Does Racism Make Us Sick? Amid a National Reckoning, the Question Gains New Importance
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Archive: How to Reopen Schools Safely During COVID-19, According to Pediatricians
We talked to UC San Francisco pediatricians about what we know about COVID-19 in children, the safety precautions schools need to take, and their perspective on how to balance the risks and benefits of reopening schools.
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Archive: Free Genome Sequencing Now Available to all UCSF Patients
The program will be one of the most comprehensive of its kind in the nation.
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Archive: What to Know About Wildfire Smoke and COVID-19
In a perfect storm of smoke, heat, and viral pandemic, the worry this year is that air pollution from wildfires could increase the severity of COVID-19 symptoms. UCSF physicians explain the risks and how to protect yourself.
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Archive: What Happens When A Wildfire Meets A Pandemic
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Archive: Philanthropy Helps UCSF Faculty and Staff Cope With COVID-19
Recognizing that helping support the wellness of care providers was a unique and meaningful way they could contribute to the pandemic response, donors recently made a $1 million gift to create a COVID-19 Faculty and Staff Morale Support Fund.
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Archive: Keeping Trouble Out of WNBA's 'Wubble' Was the Goal for Bay Area Doctor
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Archive: Smartphones May Help Detect Diabetes
Researchers at UCSF have developed a “digital biomarker” that would use a smartphone’s built-in camera to detect diabetes.
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Archive: A Guide to Sun Protection for People With Darker Skin
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Archive: Which Type of Face Mask Should I Buy?
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Archive: Kids Aren't Big COVID-19 Spreaders. Really.
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Archive: ‘AeroNabs’ Promise Powerful, Inhalable Protection Against COVID-19
UCSF scientists have devised a novel approach to halting the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
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Archive: How COVID Sends Some Bodies to War With Themselves
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Archive: Genomic Sequencing as a Standalone Newborn Screening Tool Falls Short, But May Help Diagnose Uncertain Cases
Researchers found that, when used alone, sequencing comes up short, missing some sick babies, while flagging many healthy ones for unnecessary follow-up testing. But sequencing can still be useful in cases that look suspicious but were not clearly identified by older screening technology.
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Archive: UCSF’s Global Health Institute Fights COVID-19 Around the World
UC San Francisco has spearheaded campaigns across the globe to stop the spread of deadly diseases such as malaria, measles and AIDS in developing countries. Now UCSF’s Institute for Global Health
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Archive: UC Issues New Flu Vaccination Requirement for Students, Faculty and Staff
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Archive: Lindsey Criswell Named Director of National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
Lindsey A. Criswell has been selected as the next director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
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Archive: Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulation Boosts Learning of Foreign Language Sounds
New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and UC San Francisco revealed that a simple, earbud-like device developed at UCSF that imperceptibly stimulates a key nerve leading to the brain could significantly improve the wearer’s ability to learn the sounds of a new language.
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Archive: Drug Prevents Multiple Sclerosis Relapses in Phase 3 Trial
A newly completed phase 3, multicenter clinical trial has found that an immune-modulating drug can silence inflammatory disease activity in a large majority of patients with relapsing multiple sclerosis (RMS) – the most common form of the illness, in which symptoms wax and wane.
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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Health Serves as 2020 PGA Championship Medical Team
As the official medical provider of the 2020 PGA Championship in San Francisco, UCSF Sports Medicine staff will be on-site to provide general first aid and immediate medical assistance.
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Archive: COVID-19 Pandemic Drives Telehealth Boom, But Older Adults Can’t Connect
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in video visits between patients and their doctors, but for many older adults, the shift has cut them off from care, rather than connecting them.
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Archive: One More Reason to Wear a Mask: You’ll Get Less Sick From COVID-19
It’s likely that face masks, by blocking even some of the coronavirus-carrying droplets you inhale, can reduce your risk of falling seriously ill from COVID-19, according to Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease specialist at UCSF.
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Archive: Statement on Vendor Security Incident
A vendor that UCSF uses for trend analysis of donations to the university informed us it had experienced an IT security incident in May 2020 that exposed some UCSF information.
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Archive: San Francisco’s Lonely War Against COVID-19
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When Telehealth Came to the Tenderloin
Can people who are struggling with serious mental illness and poverty benefit from telehealth? The pandemic forces a UCSF team to find out.
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Archive: Transit-Based COVID-19 Monitoring Pilot Launched in Mission District
In San Francisco’s Mission District, UCSF infectious disease specialists and community partners are launching what is believed to be a first-in-the-nation pilot program to provide low-barrier COVID-19 testing — free, simple, and convenient — at a central transit hub.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Ranks Among Nation’s 10 Best Hospitals for 2020-21
UCSF Medical Center has been recognized as one of the nation’s finest hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report 2020-2021 Best Hospitals survey, ranking among the top 10 hospitals nationwide for the 22nd year.
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Archive: COVID-19 Risk in Schools: What You Should Know