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“Smarter” Breast Cancer Screening Measures Risk Down to Your DNA
The WISDOM 2.0 study aims to transform breast cancer screening by using a personalized approach and will expand to women as young as 30.
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Do Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Affect Your Stroke Risk?
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or non-binary may have a higher risk for stroke at a younger age, and possibly a higher risk for recurrence than those who identify as straight and cisgender.
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Five Questions for Diane Havlir
Diane Havlir, MD, UCSF’s Weiss Professor, an AIDS pioneer, and an infectious disease leader, is partnering with the local Latinx community to protect vulnerable San Franciscans from COVID-19 and other diseases.
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UCSF Surgeons Standardize Brow Lift and Hairline Surgery Using Photo Analysis
Facial feminization surgery eliminates sources of misgendering for patients through procedures like hairline advancement, brow lift, rhinoplasty, genioplasty and chondrolaryngoplasty.
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Uterine Cancer Cases Are Rising. Here’s What to Know.
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Hackathon Prepares Young Researchers for the Collaborative Science of the Future
On a sunny Friday, teams of aspiring young scientists gathered in the Clinical Sciences building at Parnassus Heights to look for treasure in a trillion data points about cancer.
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Just How Bad for Health Is Homelessness? Ucsf Study Finds Dire Outcomes for Oakland’s Older Population
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Older Homeless People Are At Great Risk of Dying
The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, recruited people who were 50 and older and homeless, and followed them for a median of 4.5 years. By interviewing people every six months about their health and housing status, researchers were able to examine how things like regaining housing, using drugs, and having various chronic conditions, such as diabetes, affected their risk of dying.
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San Francisco, San Mateo Co. Residents Urged to Share Long COVID Stories
UCSF, San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and San Mateo County Health (SMC Health) are partnering with local community groups to learn about long COVID. Their project, Let’s Figure Out Long COVID – Tell Us Your Story, Bay Area, will call local residents of all ethnicities and backgrounds who previously had COVID.
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Elevated Tween Screen Time Linked to Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Tweens who spend more time on screens have a higher likelihood of developing disruptive behavior disorders, with social media having an especially strong influence, a new UCSF-led study found.
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Lack of Diversity in Dermatology
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This Clinical Trial Wanted to End Breast Cancer Disparities. But First It Needed To Enroll Black Women
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UCSF to Return to Golden Gate Park to Raise Funds in AIDS Walk San Francisco
After two years of participating in mostly virtual events due to the pandemic, UCSF is rallying its community to come together in Golden Gate Park for AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 17 to raise funds for programs and services that benefit people of the Bay Area.
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Launch of the UC Center for Climate, Health and Equity
The University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity will officially launch this week with a series of high-level conversations open to the public online.
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Bibbins-Domingo, Jones Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kirsten B. Bibbins-Domingo and Camara Phyllis Jones join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ class of 2022.
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UCSF Surgeons Develop Effective Scarless Adam’s Apple Surgery
UCSF surgeons have developed a novel technique in for Adam’s apple surgeries that leaves patients without a revealing scar.
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Why Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Make It Harder To Get Abortions in Certain Parts of California
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Trailblazing UCSF Professor D’Anne Duncan Delivers 2022 Last Lecture
D’Anne Duncan is the first black woman to deliver the UCSF Last Lecture, which she gave during a live event on April 6, answering the question “If you have but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
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Discovering a Seizure-Free Life with Help from 3-D ‘Heat Map’ Technology
For 29 years, Rashetta Higgins was wracked by epileptic seizures. UCSF neurologists used a pioneering imaging technique to spot what was triggering them and then removed that region from her brain. Now Rashetta is living a seizure-free life.
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Talk on the Secrets of Fruit-Eating Mammals Wins 2022 UCSF Grad Slam
Wei Gordon was among nine finalists in the sixth annual UCSF Grad Slam, held March 31 – after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic – competing to inform and entertain with three-minute talks based on their own research.
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Meet Three of the Women Behind an Indigenous Land Back Effort to Reclaim an SF Peninsula Farm
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VP Harris Visits UCSF to Support Black Maternal Health
Vice President Kamala Harris visited UCSF April 21 to help draw attention to the critical need for addressing disparities nationwide in health care for Black people during pregnancy.
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VP Kamala Harris Decries U.S. Maternal Health Care Crisis in S.F. Visit, Praises UCSF Program
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Gender-affirming Care, a ‘Crucial’ Process for Thousands of Young People in America
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Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation Produces Similar Results as In-Person Treatment
In a recent study, UCSF researchers looked at the efficacy of hybrid and virtual delivery of cardiac rehabilitation (CR). They found that virtual and hybrid CR services produced similar improvements in patient function as in-person CR.
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Cross-Racial Study of 1.87M Vets Shows Wide Disparities in Dementia
This study is believed to be the first to report the rate of dementia in Native Americans using a nationwide sample, the researchers stated in their paper.
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Using AI in Electrocardiogram Analysis Can Improve Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Using AI in ECG analysis improves diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden death in adolescents.
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As Prescribed: Why Cardiologists Are Sounding the Alarm About Maternal Health During Black History Month
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