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A Novel Approach to Aching Knees: How Specialists Are Using Artery Embolization for Osteoarthritis

Many providers have grown weary of offering the same old treatments – physical therapy, steroid injections – to their patients with knee OA, an increasingly prevalent condition that accounts for more than 80% of OA-related chronic pain ...

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Radiofrequency Ablation: A New Option for Benign Thyroid Nodules

Learn about a minimally invasive way to address an exceedingly common condition in this short presentation by interventional radiologist Alexander Lam, MD.

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A Handy Guide: How to Identify and Manage Common Upper Extremity Conditions

When patients present with pain, weakness or numbness in fingers, wrists or elbows, providers need efficient paths to diagnosis and initiating care.

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Catching More (and Better) Z's: An Expert on Common Sleep Concerns

In this talk for both clinicians and patients, sleep medicine specialist Kin M. Yuen, MD, MS, DABSM, answers the questions on everyone's yawning lips, including “How much sleep do I need?” and “What constitutes chronic insomnia?”

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Skin in the Game: How to Optimize Skin Cancer Detection in Primary Care

While PCPs understand the need to survey patients for suspicious lesions, they may have trouble incorporating skin checks into routine physical exams or lack confidence in distinguishing benign growths from concerning ones.

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Interdisciplinary Vasculopathy Care

The UCSF Vasculopathy Clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for patients with moyamoya disease, atherosclerosis and other conditions that cause intracranial vasculopathy.

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Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms

In a discovery that could hasten treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a harbinger in the blood of some people who later went on to develop the disease. 

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Targeted Therapy, Treatment Disparity Featured at Cancer Meeting

Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapy, cancer genomics, eliminating treatment disparities and other cancer research topics at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association ...

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Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer?

UC San Francisco researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition.

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New Predictive MS Blood Test May Help Prevent Disability Worsening

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) whose blood tests reveal elevated neurofilament light chain (NfL), a biomarker of nerve damage, are at risk of experiencing disability worsening one to two years later, according to a new study spearheaded ...