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Incidental Thyroid Nodules: Benign Bump or Big Deal?
A lump on the thyroid is a common finding in both physical exams and imaging studies, but the significance varies greatly.
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Dry Days Ahead: Effective Strategies for Common Urinary Complaints
While stress incontinence and overactive bladder may not be life-threatening, they can be life-diminishing. Yet, with the stepped care approach presented by urologic surgeon Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, clinicians can find a remedy to help almost any patient.
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Better Terms and Effective Strategies for Primary Care Management
Urogynecologist Caitlyn E. Painter, DO, explains why the anxiety-provoking condition requires sensitivity from providers and how they can help patients understand the problem and find a solution – from Kegels to surgery – that suits them.
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The COPD Blues: A Guide to Optimizing Outpatient Management
For the 30 million adults in the U.S. with COPD, effective care requires providers to have an up-to-date understanding of treatment options as well as the ability to respond to changes in a patient’s status.
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Approaching Endometriosis: Deliver the Right Care for Individual Patients
Gynecologist Jeannette Lager, MD, MPH, associate director of the UCSF Endometriosis Center, offers a thorough update on this painful condition impacting around 10% of U.S. women.
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Keep Diabetic Patients on Their Feet: Keys to Identifying Limb-Threatening Issues
In a country where more than 9% of adults have diabetes, Alexander Reyzelman, DPM, discusses the implications for those who also have peripheral vascular disease.
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Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Guide to Causes and Solutions
In this straightforward talk, Tami Serene Rowen, MD, MS, FACOG clarifies how to distinguish abnormal from normal menses; breaks down the many reasons, both structural and hormonal, for the problem; and provides specifics on medical management – from doses to side effects – as well as surgical options and her favored techniques.
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Lung Transplant Candidates: Shining a Light on UCSF’s Evaluation Process
In this short presentation, pulmonologist Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, describes how the specialists of the UCSF Lung Transplant Program work together to ensure their patients are likely to succeed, with a focus on factors that can make or break survival prospects.
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Focusing on Blurry Vision: Tips and Tools for Making the Right Diagnosis
From simple refractive issues to dry eye to age-related cataracts to emergencies such as retinal detachment, the causes of painless fuzzy vision vary widely in urgency.
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Living Donor Renal Transplant
In this narrated surgical video, Chris Friese, MD, performs a right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
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Lung Cancer Screening: Who, How and When to Refer
†horacic radiologist Brett M. Elicker, MD, and thoracic surgeon Johannes Kratz, MD, present about current lung cancer screening guidelines: who, how, and when to refer.
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Fresh Insight on Cataracts: An Update on Evaluation and Management
Optometrist Emily Eng, OD, MS, FAAO, starts with a refresher on eye anatomy and the factors that make lenses get cloudy, then describes what patients want to know about cataract surgery (the most performed procedure in all of medicine), including pre- and post-op care.
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Pass the Smell Test: How to Assess Olfactory Loss Linked to COVID and Other Conditions
Otolaryngologist Patricia A. Loftus, MD, discusses what’s known about smell loss in COVID patients as well as its general prevalence in our aging population.
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Current Menopause Care: Understanding and Explaining a Patient’s Options
Gynecologist Mindy Goldman, MD, offers keys to individualizing care in menopause and beyond by looking at factors ranging from family history to having undergone hysterectomy.
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: Tried-and-True Versus New Treatments
Justin Ahn, MD, covers evaluation essentials for patients with signs of BPH; what to know about various medical therapies, including side effects; and the bounty of today’s surgical options.
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Will It Pass? Will It Recur? Get Current on Kidney Stone Management
Urologist Justin Ahn, MD, answers crucial questions on preventing and managing kidney stone disease – a condition affecting 10% of the U.S population, with young patients increasingly at risk.
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Handling Hypothyroidism: Management Basics and Pearls
Get more comfortable assessing patients for this common disorder, determining whether treatment is appropriate and initiating levothyroxine therapy. Endocrinologist Chienying Liu, MD, illuminates such issues as when to treat subclinical hypothyroidism.
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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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Primary Care Predicaments: Myopathies, Neuropathies & Neuromuscular Conditions, Oh My!
From ALS to myasthenia gravis to Guillain-Barré syndrome, potentially aggressive neuromuscular disorders can present with a range of nebulous symptoms.
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Slumber Secrets: New Insights into the Complexities of Sleep and Managing Common Issues
Sleep medicine specialist Rochelle Zak, MD, delivers a rousing update on what’s known about sleep’s stages and physiological payoffs, followed by her guide to assessing and treating insomnia – by far the main sleep issue seen in primary care.
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The Evidence on Incidentalomas: When to Investigate, When to Rest Easy
This presentation from radiologist Hailey H. Choi, MD, supplies straightforward criteria to help providers assess lesions ranging from thyroid and adrenal nodules to ovarian cysts to pancreatic and liver lesions.
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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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UCSF500 Cancer Gene Panel Test
The UCSF500 Cancer Gene Panel leverages world-class expertise for advanced cancer cases. Designed by our leading cancer specialists, the UCSF500 offers unparalleled depth and precision in genetic analysis.
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Cardiology Transfer Guide
Cardiology Transfer Guide
