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UCSF Osher Center Overview: Integrative Medicine’s Value for Providers and Patients
Sanford C. Newmark, MD, medical director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains what integrative medicine is (hint: it’s neither “alternative medicine” nor homeopathy) and how referred patients can benefit from its proven techniques.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Physical Activity May Still Not Match Pre-Covid 19 Pandemic Levels
Step counts—a measure of physical activity—were markedly lower early in the COVID-19 pandemic than pre-pandemic and remained lower, on average, in the two years following the onset of the global pandemic.
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Complex Drugs, Complex Patients: Navigating New Options for Diabetes Management
Robert J. Rushakoff, MD, helps providers get up to speed on the latest drugs, explaining benefits, crucial caveats, and factors ranging from expense to nonadherence.
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Brain Wave Recordings Reveal Potential for Individualized Parkinson’s Treatments
Pioneering neural recordings in patients with Parkinson’s disease by UC San Francisco scientists are providing the groundwork for personalized brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s and other neurological disorders.
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Cervical and Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity Treatment Strategies, Part III: Case Examples
Lee Tan, MD discusses three recent cervical spine and thoracolumbar spinal deformity cases and the surgical interventions used to treat these diverse conditions.
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Optimize Spinal Surgery Outcomes Through Teamwork
Vascular surgeon Dr. Charles Eichler discusses UCSF’s success with including vascular surgeons in lumbar fusion procedures and finding the least invasive approach for each patient.
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Minimally-Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery
Tobias Deuse, MD, discusses the advantages of minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of mitral valve insufficiency.
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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.
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Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Bones
A newly discovered hormone that keeps the bones of breastfeeding women strong could also help bone fractures heal and treat osteoporosis in the broader population.
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Regenerative Medicine Could Soon Transform Treatment of Musculoskeletal Conditions
UCSF’s Brian Feeley, MD, and Xuhui Liu, MD, in collaboration with Kevin Healy, PhD, received a $1.2 million grant for their lab from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine to continue pursuing their translational research in regenerative medicine.
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Knee and Hip Replacements: Tips and Tools to Optimize Your Referrals
Noting the prevalence of osteoarthritis and a general lack of consistency in which patients are referred, orthopedic surgeon Claudio Diaz Ledezma, MD, lays out efficient evaluation strategies for primary care providers.
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There’s a More Humane Way to Monitor Crohn's and Colitis Patients
IBD, which comprises Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, affects 1.3% of the U.S. population and accounts for 3 million new diagnoses every year.
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The UCSF Hip Preservation Center: Where Hurting Hips Go to Become Happy Hips
See how our specialists work together and use advanced techniques to address all types of hip injuries in all types of patients, including infants and athletes.
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First “Neuroprosthesis” Restores Words and Mobility to Man with Paralysis
Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed the first “neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen. Aided by this technology, the man is also able to move a robotic arm to manipulate objects.
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Saras Ramanathan, MD, Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Academic Ophthalmology
Saras Ramanathan, MD, has been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Academic Ophthalmology (JAO)
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Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: What's All the HYPE?
Theodore Abraham, MD, discusses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) a genetic heart disease in which the myocardium becomes abnormally thick.
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UCSF Internal Medicine Specialist Celebrated for Diabetes Epidemiology Research
Alka M. Kanaya, MD, UC San Francisco primary care physician and researcher, has been honored with the 2023 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
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UCSF Offers Growing Options for Focal Therapy in Prostate Cancer
In its commitment to tailoring prostate cancer treatment to the needs of each patient, UC San Francisco’s Department of Urology uses focal therapy as an important option for men with clinically significant cancers that are located in one region of the prostate.
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Evaluation & Common Presentation of Fibroids
Dr. Jeannette Lager examines the presentation of fibroids in ultrasound, MRI and CT imaging.
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Sorting Cancers by “Immune Archetypes” Represents Potential New Approach to Developing Precision Immunotherapies
Using data from over 300 patient tumors, UCSF researchers have described 12 classes of “immune archetypes” to classify cancer tumors. Their findings, published today in CELL, reveal that cancers from different parts of the body are immunologically similar to one another. These classifications provide unique strategies for enhancing each patient’s choice of cancer immunotherapies.
