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High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening Video

High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening

Hematologist-oncologist Elham Vosoughi, MD, starts with an update on breast cancer stats, noting that incidence in the United States is increasing by 1% every year – with an even sharper rise for women under 50.

 UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year Video

UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year

UCSF Health and John Muir Health specialists in treatments for numerous cancers – including breast, lung, bladder and colon cancer – unpack last year's influential trials, several of which established new standards of care for specific patient populations.

Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain Video

Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain

This practical presentation from physical and pain medicine specialist Peter I-Kung Wu, MD, PhD, MPH, takes a deep dive into diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), a problem that particularly affects men over 50, bringing stiffness ...

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients Video

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients

The complex and broad-ranging needs of older adults can be difficult to meet in the primary care setting – or by specialists seeing them for a single disorder

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools Video

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools

Having experienced GDM herself while pregnant, perinatologist Jennie Duffy, MD, understands the challenges for both patients and doctors in the quest for better glycemic control.

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This New Treatment Can Adjust to Parkinson's Symptoms in Real Time News

This New Treatment Can Adjust to Parkinson's Symptoms in Real Time

People with Parkinson’s disease have a new treatment option, thanks to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of groundbreaking new technology.

International Stroke Conference Featured UCSF Experts News

International Stroke Conference Featured UCSF Experts

Stroke experts from UCSF Health presented new research and clinical findings at the annual the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference (ISC25).

How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm Using a Brain-Computer Interface News

How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm Using a Brain-Computer Interface

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer.

Cardiology Conference Featured Innovations from UCSF Health Experts News

Cardiology Conference Featured Innovations from UCSF Health Experts

Cardiology experts from UCSF Health presented new research and clinical findings at the American College of Cardiology’s (ACC) 74th Annual Scientific Session and Expo in Chicago.

Enhancing MRI with AI to Improve Diagnosis of Brain Disorders News

Enhancing MRI with AI to Improve Diagnosis of Brain Disorders

At the intersection of AI and medical science, there is growing interest in using machine learning to enhance imaging data captured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology.