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Brain Aneurysms: What Primary Care Providers Need to Know
This presentation from neurosurgeon Ethan A. Winkler, MD, PhD, offers data-driven guidelines on assessing a patient's risk, covering factors that range from alcohol consumption and family history to the location, size and shape of the aneurysm.
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UCSF Thoracic Surgery Leaders Discuss Diagnostic and Surgical Innovations to Treat Lung Cancer and Lung Diseases
Robotic-assisted surgery at UCSF allows thoracic surgeons to perform intricate procedures with a high level of precision and dexterity, providing optimal patient outcomes.
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Patient Receives Cancer Treatment While Pregnant
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Wrist and Hand Injuries in Primary Care: Evaluation and Management
Lauren Shapiro, MD discusses hand and wrist injuries.
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Colon Cancer Screening Beyond Colonoscopy
Aparajita Singh, MD, discusses colon cancer screening.
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Obesity Options in the Ozempic Era: An Expert’s Insights on BMI, GLP-1s and Surgery
Treating obesity is among the PCP's everyday duties, but when does a patient's body composition put them at risk and which treatments are appropriate?
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Aortic Valve Replacement: Ross Procedure
Learn more on the Aortic Valve Replacement: Ross Procedure.
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UCSF Health to Launch New Neurodiagnostic Technologist Program
UCSF Health today announced a $170,000 investment in start-up funding to partner with Foothill College to develop a new two-year Neurodiagnostic Technologist (NDT) program
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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.
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Delayed REM Sleep Could Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer’s
Scientists have recently shown that both the quality and the amount of sleep we get may influence our risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
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Sneaky Senescent Cells That Resist Cancer Treatment Can Provide Druggable Lung Cancer Target
Senescent fibroblasts are aging cells that no longer divide and protect against tumor development.
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Why Has Progress in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease Taken 30 Years?
UCSF expert examines the past and future of clinical trials for Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Tailored Deep Brain Stimulation Improves Walking in Parkinson’s Disease
UCSF researchers develop first-of-its-kind measure of gait performance, allowing researchers to fine tune electrical pulses to the neural network.
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First-of-its-Kind Amputation Prevention Center Offers Hope for the Toughest Cases
Rogelio Jacinto had five days until doctors planned to amputate his leg. It was an emotionally wrenching end to five months of unsuccessful visits to specialists to treat a diabetic foot ulcer.
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UCSF Surgical Oncologists Providing New Treatment Options for Patients with Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancers
UCSF Health’s surgical oncology team is a Bay Area leader in an innovative chemotherapy infusion pump used to treat patients with widely metastatic colorectal and bile duct cancers that have spread to the liver and are no longer considered operable.
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Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s?
UCSF researchers create "Google Maps” for how tau moves in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients.
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Breast Cancer Risk Calculator Can Assess Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer
Upcoming Conference to Focus on Breast Density and Prediction of Advanced and Interval Breast Cancer Risk
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Tiny, Focused Shocks Help Many Patients Overcome Heart Arrhythmia
Pulsed field ablation uses a series of tiny electrical pulses to destroy the tissue causing the arrhythmia. The procedure takes an hour or less, compared to three or four hours for conventional treatment.
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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.
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Inclusion of New Risk Factors Can Improve Prediction of Invasive Breast Cancer
UCSF researchers update Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium model to account for BMI and other familial risk factors.
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UCSF Cancer Researcher Thomas Martin Receives $4.6 million CIRM Grant
UC San Francisco’s Thomas G. Martin, MD, a leading expert in blood cancers, has received a grant of nearly $4.6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to produce a CAR T cell therapy for multiple myeloma, the second most common malignancy among blood cancers.
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Nationally Recognized Health Equity Leader Appointed as Chair of UCSF Obstetrics and Gynecology Program
Andrea V. Jackson, MD, MAS, a highly regarded obstetrician, gynecologist and diversity champion, will draw on her experience in women’s reproductive health, training the next generation of caregivers and addressing systemic racism in her role as chair of UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences.
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New Discovery Reveals Pathway to Modulate Scarring in Spinal Cord Injury
After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it
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UCSF Stroke Clinic
The stroke clinic provides expert consultations and outpatient care to patients who are at risk of a stroke or have had a stroke due to neurovascular conditions.
