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Memory and Cognitive Disorders: The Latest Prevention, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies Video

Memory and Cognitive Disorders: The Latest Prevention, Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies

In this webinar, behavioral neurologist Bruce Miller, MD, director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, discusses Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy body disease (DLB).

Breast Cancer: The Latest Evidence-Based Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Options Video

Breast Cancer: The Latest Evidence-Based Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment Options

In this informative webinar, UCSF breast surgeon Shoko Emily Abe, MD, reviews current evidence informing breast cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment

Hematuria and Other Common Urinary Concerns: A Guide for PCPs Video

Hematuria and Other Common Urinary Concerns: A Guide for PCPs

Blood in urine is common – and stressful for patients, who want an immediate diagnosis.

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.

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 UCSF-led Clinical Trial of Patients with Juvenile Arthritis-associated Uveitis Validates Continued Treatment with Adalimumab News

UCSF-led Clinical Trial of Patients with Juvenile Arthritis-associated Uveitis Validates Continued Treatment with Adalimumab

In a study published last January in The Lancet, UCSF researchers sought to assess efficacy and safety of discontinuing treatment in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis by conducting a multicenter, randomized-controlled ...

Could This Precision Medicine Approach Help Patients Delay Dementia? News

Could This Precision Medicine Approach Help Patients Delay Dementia?

Combining genetic risk with cardiovascular disease risk factors — such as high LDL cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension — may predict who is more likely to develop dementia, according to a new study led by UC San Francisco.

New Treatment Framework for Anti-Amyloid Therapies Developed by UCSF-led Alzheimer’s Association Consortium News

New Treatment Framework for Anti-Amyloid Therapies Developed by UCSF-led Alzheimer’s Association Consortium

A breakthrough treatment in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease is a class of therapies called anti-amyloid antibodies (anti-A?). These monoclonal antibodies – proteins made in a laboratory intended to stimulate the immune system – have ...

UCSF Study Finds a Better Way to Screen for Breast Cancer News

UCSF Study Finds a Better Way to Screen for Breast Cancer

A pioneering study has found that an individualized approach to breast cancer screening that assesses patients’ risk, rather than automatically giving annual mammograms, can lower the chance of more advanced cancers, while still safely ...

UCSF Urology Clinicians Present Research Findings at SurgeWest News

UCSF Urology Clinicians Present Research Findings at SurgeWest

This year’s program featured innovative research and discussions by experts from the UCSF Department of Urology.