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Worried About Getting a CT Scan? Here’s What to Ask Your Doctor
Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent
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Toddler’s Brain Tumor Symptoms Subside Thanks to New Use of Epilepsy Laser Procedure
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How Serious is Your Brain Injury? New Criteria Will Reveal More
After more than 50 years, the assessment of traumatic brain injuries gets an overhaul. Clinicians say the proposed framework will lead to more accurate diagnoses and treatment, providing more rigorous care for some patients and preventing premature discussions about halting life support in others.
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A New System Aims to Save Injured Brains and Lives
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How Do Middle-Aged Folks Get Dementia? It Could Be These Proteins
UCSF researchers have found clues about how frontotemporal dementia develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more patients into clinical trials.
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22 Top Travel Shoes for Comfort and Support, Backed by a Podiatrist
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3 UCSF Scientists Are Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, developmental geneticist Thomas Kornberg, PhD, and virologist Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, PhD, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors in American science.
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New and Easier Way to Monitor Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Kids
This spring, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Walnut Creek Outpatient Cetner will become one of the only children's hospital on the West Coast to have an intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine for children with IBD, making for a much better patient experience.
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Diabetes Medication May Increase Risk of Perioperative Ketoacidosis
Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), or gliflozins, are medications used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). They are designed to lower high blood glucose levels
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How ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Could Help Parkinson’s Disease Patients
A first-of-its-kind study tested the safety of psilocybin on patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease and found that patients experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and motor function that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.
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Breakthrough Multiple Sclerosis Therapy by UCSF Doctor Transforms Treatment for Millions
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Popular CT Scans Could Account for 5% of All Cancer Cases A Year
CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.
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How the Mediterranean Diet and Exercise Can Protect Bone Health in Older Adults
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Bay Area Patients Among First in U.S. To Receive Life-Changing Parkinson’s Treatment
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Stephen Hauser Wins Breakthrough Prize for Role in Redefining MS
Neuro-immunologist Stephen Hauser, MD, whose maverick thinking transformed the treatment landscape for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), has received the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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How Your Immune System Plays Matchmaker to Find and Kill HIV
Ten UCSF graduate students presented their research in accessible, 3-minute talks at the 2025 Grad Slam event. This year’s first-place talk was by Sophia Miliotis on how our immune system uses matchmaking skills to look for signs of viruses in cells that should be destroyed.
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How Your Brain Manages Cholesterol Could Increase Alzheimer’s Risk
Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by a host of recognizable cognitive symptoms, but many non-cognitive symptoms like changes in sleep, anxiety and depression can be early signs of the disease.
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Is Increased Sleepiness in Our 80s Tied to Higher Dementia Risk?
A study followed the sleep patterns of older female participants to see if specific patterns of change were associated with a higher risk of dementia. The participants, whose average age was 83, were monitored by wrist devices that track movement and time spent asleep.
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What Works for Low Back Pain? Not Much, a New Study Says.
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Lo-Res to Hi-Res, A Better way to Pinpoint Where Seizures Begin
Locating seizure onset zones is a critical requirement for epilepsy surgery. This often relies upon intracranial recordings, but finding the exact zone can still present challenges. An experimental study capturing seizures on grid electrode arrays of varying density found that higher density grid arrays produced more specificity in seizure onset areas.
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UCSF Experts Featured at Orthopaedic Surgery Conference
Orthopedic surgery experts from UCSF Health will present new clinical research findings and cutting-edge surgical techniques at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ (AAOS) annual meeting.
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More Hospital Rehabilitation May Not Mean You’re Home Sooner
To help patients recover more quickly, hospitals may provide physical and occupational therapy – especially for older adults to help them preserve or regain function. How much therapy is best, though, isn’t clear.
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NIH Funding Drives UCSF’s Pursuit of Better Health for All
UCSF received $815 million in awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year for research that will improve the lives of patients in the U.S. and around the world.
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How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm with His Thoughts
A paralyzed man was able to move a robotic arm and fingers simply by imagining himself doing so, with the help of brain signals decoded through a computer.
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The ‘Silent’ X Chromosome Gives the Aging Female Brain a Boost
Why do women's brains fare better in aging than men's? A study found that the second, 'silent' X chromosome turns on in the brain of old female mice and improves learning and memory – opening new paths to slow the decline in men and women.
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How to Build Bold Thinking to Foster Scientific Breakthroughs
Martin Kampmann, PhD, and Anna Victoria Molofsky, MD, PhD, are the 2025 recipients of the Bowes Biomedical Investigator award, which supports scientists who take novel approaches and have the potential to make significant contributions to biomedicine. Recipients receive $1.25 million over five years.
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Aging Women’s Brain Mysteries Are Tested in Trio of Studies
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Napping More as You Get Older? Here’s Why That May Not Be a Good Thing
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Human Chromosomes Evolved at Hyperspeed to Give Us Better Brains
How did humans evolve brains capable of complex language, civilization, and more? Scientists at UC San Francisco recently found that parts of our chromosomes have evolved at breakneck speeds to give us an edge in brain development compared to apes.
