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Fall’s Virus Harvest: What to Know About COVID, RSV, Flu, and the New Vaccines Video

Fall’s Virus Harvest: What to Know About COVID, RSV, Flu, and the New Vaccines

This talk provides answers to the questions clinicians are starting to hear every day, including how worried to be about current COVID cases, when the latest COVID vaccines will be available, and whether they’ll work better against upcoming variants.

Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization Video

Advanced Care of Subdural Hematoma in the Elderly: A Look at Embolization

Neurosurgeon Luis Savastano, MD, PhD, discusses middle meningeal artery embolization, a cutting-edge, outpatient procedure for subdural hematoma.

Everyday Heart Disease Prevention: An Update on Risk Assessment and Clinical Strategies Video

Everyday Heart Disease Prevention: An Update on Risk Assessment and Clinical Strategies

With heart disease deaths on the upswing since 2010, primary care providers must routinely develop individualized plans to protect their patients from atherosclerosis.

Advances in Obesity Medicine: Better Bariatric Surgery Options and Outcomes Video

Advances in Obesity Medicine: Better Bariatric Surgery Options and Outcomes

With obesity affecting 40% of the U.S. population, bariatric surgeon Jonathan Carter, MD, reviews the devastating health effects of excess body fat and contends that clinicians can no longer sidestep difficult conversations about weight management.

The Intriguing Truth About Orthobiologics: Current Uses, Future Possibilities Video

The Intriguing Truth About Orthobiologics: Current Uses, Future Possibilities

For healing diseased or damaged tissues, therapies that use the body's native cellular components may have long-term advantages over go-to treatments, such as steroid injections.

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Millions of Long-Term Smokers Have Lung Disease that Defies Diagnosis News

Millions of Long-Term Smokers Have Lung Disease that Defies Diagnosis

Millions of Americans with tobacco-related lung disease have symptoms that do not fit any existing tobacco-related disease criteria – including the most common of those, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Deadly Dust: Engineered Stone Is Making California Workers Sick News

Deadly Dust: Engineered Stone Is Making California Workers Sick

Workers making artificial-stone slabs for the most popular type of countertops sold in the United States are developing a potentially deadly, irreversible lung disease from tiny particles of toxic dust, researchers from UC San Francisco and UCLA found...

Novel Intraoperative Prostate Cancer Imaging Method Reveals Previously Undetectable Disease News

Novel Intraoperative Prostate Cancer Imaging Method Reveals Previously Undetectable Disease

UCSF researchers led the first-in-human study of a novel near-infrared fluorescence imaging agent that targets prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA).

Neuroendovascular Surgery Document

Neuroendovascular Surgery

The newly formed Neuroendovascular Surgery program at UCSF offers accessible, coordinated care for even the most complex vascular disorders of the central nervous system.

UCSF Health Cancer Services Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons News

UCSF Health Cancer Services Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

The UCSF cancer program has been continuously accredited by the CoC since 1933, demonstrating its commitment to the best outcomes possible for its cancer patients.

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