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Updates in Stroke Prevention: What Every PCP Needs to Know Video

Updates in Stroke Prevention: What Every PCP Needs to Know

Anirudh Sreekrishnan, MD, presents on the diagnostic criteria and etiologies of storke as well as medication management for stroke preventions. 

Wrist and Hand Injuries in Primary Care: Evaluation and Management Video

Wrist and Hand Injuries in Primary Care: Evaluation and Management

Lauren Shapiro, MD discusses hand and wrist injuries.

Colon Cancer Screening Beyond Colonoscopy Video

Colon Cancer Screening Beyond Colonoscopy

Aparajita Singh, MD, discusses colon cancer screening.

The Cancer Diagnostics Service: Improving Cancer Care Access Video

The Cancer Diagnostics Service: Improving Cancer Care Access

In this video, Margaret Tempero, MD, director of the UCSF Pancreas Center, discusses the new UCSF Health Cancer Diagnostics Service (CDS).

Prenatal Genome Screening: Understanding Options, Interpreting Results Video

Prenatal Genome Screening: Understanding Options, Interpreting Results

With California's embrace of cell-free DNA screening and the increasing use of gene sequencing, pregnant patients have questions about what they can learn from these tests and what to make of the findings

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Treating a Deadly Brain Tumor Before It Recurs? AI Tool May Help News

Treating a Deadly Brain Tumor Before It Recurs? AI Tool May Help

A new AI-based model can predict where the most common malignant brain cancer, glioblastoma, is most likely to return after initial surgery, potentially giving doctors a chance to treat it before it becomes visible on MRI.

Can Mini Organs Help Predict Breast Tumors’ Response to Therapy? News

Can Mini Organs Help Predict Breast Tumors’ Response to Therapy?

UCSF-led study shows patient-derived organoids can reproduce biomarker-associated treatment responses in breast cancer and could lead to more effective strategies for personalized therapy.

New App Helps Congenital Heart Disease Patients Continue Specialty Care News

New App Helps Congenital Heart Disease Patients Continue Specialty Care

Congenital heart disease is a condition primarily associated with infants and children, but that is changing.

Novel Telehealth Treatment Effectively Reduces Alcohol Use in Patients with Liver Disease News

Novel Telehealth Treatment Effectively Reduces Alcohol Use in Patients with Liver Disease

Alcohol use disorder is a major cause of disease and premature death worldwide.

UCSF Health to Launch New Neurodiagnostic Technologist Program News

UCSF Health to Launch New Neurodiagnostic Technologist Program

UCSF Health today announced a $170,000 investment in start-up funding to partner with Foothill College to develop a new two-year Neurodiagnostic Technologist (NDT) program