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Give to UCSFIn 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.
Recently released data from the Centers for Disease Control show childhood autism rates are at their highest level since the CDC began tracking data in 2000.
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.
Black youth who attend racially segregated schools are more likely to have behavior problems and to drink alcohol than Black youth in less segregated schools, according to a UCSF study published in Pediatrics.
Skin diseases both common and rare can be better diagnosed and treated using genetic fingerprinting based on knowledge gained through a new UCSF study, according to researchers who developed new approaches for using the latest techniques to analyze gene activity in cells obtained from affected skin.
A new UCSF-led study showed that people who are vaccinated against COVID-19, and have a history of certain psychiatric conditions, have a heightened risk of infection – a finding that may be related to impaired immune response.
About half of young adults had mental health symptoms during the pandemic and more than a third of those were unable to access mental health therapy, a new UC San Francisco study found.
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London found that psilocybin fosters greater connections between different regions of the brain in depressed people, freeing them up from long-held patterns of rumination and excessive self-focus.
The findings contradict the common notion that Alzheimer’s patients sleep during the day to make up for a bad night of sleep and point toward potential therapies to help these patients feel more awake.
In order to validate surgical decisions for gender-affirming facial srugery pursued by transgender individuals, researchers from the UC San Francisco and the University of Calgary set out to quantify the effect of sex on adult facial size and shape through an analysis of three-dimensional (3D) facial surface images.
For the new study published in the journal Nature on March 30, 2022, researchers at Gladstone Institutes, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Francisco (UCSF) teamed up. Their findings, shed light on how obesity can change the immune system and, potentially, how clinicians might be able to better treat allergies and asthma in obese people.
Follow-up care after an asthma-related visit to the emergency department may help prevent future emergency visits for children, a new study led by UCSF researchers found.
Daytime napping among older people is a normal part of aging – but it may also foreshadow Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep, say UCSF researchers. Some lucky people are “elite sleepers,” packing sleep’s benefits into 4 to 6 hours a night. Their genes may hold clues to how efficient sleep can fend off dementia.
More than twice as many people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco died during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to previous years, with the leading cause of death being drug overdose. No deaths were attributed to the virus itself.
55% of seniors with dementia take more than six medications even though most have good health. However, a UCSF study showed that 87% are willing to cut down if their doctors agree.
UCSF researchers successfully leveraged an FDA-approved drug to halt growth of tumors driven by mutations in the RAS gene, which are famously difficult to treat and account for about one in four cancer deaths.