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The Fetal Treatment Center in Oakland: Expanded Services, Informed Strategies - Intro Video

The Fetal Treatment Center in Oakland: Expanded Services, Informed Strategies - Intro

Learn which patients may benefit from referral and what to expect from the process in this update from perinatologist Annalisa Post, MD.

Preeclampsia Update: How to Identify and Manage a Perilous Pregnancy Complication Video

Preeclampsia Update: How to Identify and Manage a Perilous Pregnancy Complication

This important talk from Annalisa Post, MD, a perinatologist with the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, clarifies the definition of preeclampsia, lays out risk factors, and elucidates the tricky business of recognizing worsening hypertension in pregnancy.

Halt the UTI Cycle: Tips and Techniques for Treating a Common Urinary Woe Video

Halt the UTI Cycle: Tips and Techniques for Treating a Common Urinary Woe

Urogynecologist Abigail Shatkin-Margolis, MD, offers an update to help PCPs efficiently assess and treat patients prone to urinary tract infections, with a focus on both young and elderly adults.

Keys to the Knees: How to Approach a Variety of Meniscus Tears Video

Keys to the Knees: How to Approach a Variety of Meniscus Tears

Historically misunderstood even by sports medicine specialists, meniscus tears are a range of conditions best managed by considering specifics of both the injury and the patient.

The Reflux “Cycle of Hell”: An ENT Perspective on Setting Patients Free Video

The Reflux “Cycle of Hell”: An ENT Perspective on Setting Patients Free

When different doctors – PCPs, gastroenterologists and otolaryngologists – take different approaches to the common problem of acid reflux, patients often continue to suffer.

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First-line Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy May Benefit Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers News

First-line Pembrolizumab Plus Chemotherapy May Benefit Patients with Advanced Biliary Tract Cancers

The addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to gemcitabine and cisplatin improved overall survival in patients with untreated metastatic or unresectable biliary tract cancer, according to results from the phase III KEYNOTE-966 clinical trial.

Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at Walnut Creek Document

Advanced Heart Failure Clinic at Walnut Creek

Through a collaboration between John Muir Health and UCSF Health, patients with advanced heart failure have access to specialized care in Walnut Creek.

Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Program Document

Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Program

UCSF HEPATOLOGY AND LIVER TRANSPLANT SERVICES have established the Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease Program, expanding access to hepatology care and liver transplantation for a broader range of patients.

Interventional Cardiology Program Document

Interventional Cardiology Program

The UCSF Interventional Cardiology Program offers the latest minimally invasive catheter-based procedures to diagnose and treat the full spectrum of cardiovascular conditions.

Cardio-Oncology & Immunology: Specialized Cardiovascular Care for Cancer Patients Document

Cardio-Oncology & Immunology: Specialized Cardiovascular Care for Cancer Patients

Led by a multidisciplinary team of specialists and researchers, our program optimizes the cardiovascular health of cancer patients and cancer survivors.

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