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WEBAug 21, 2024 · Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine. Smoking and Tobacco. Stem Cells. Wellness. Events. View all events. Spanning the Bay. With more than 20 locations throughout San Francisco and beyond, UC San Francisco is an industry of its own, contributing greatly to the intellectual vigor and economic vitality of …
COVID-19 Masks: Expert Tips for What You Should (and Shouldn’t) …
WEBAug 13, 2024 · Chin-Hong: Medical N95, KN95 and KF94 masks all filter out lots of particles from the air and are the best at protecting against COVID-19. Avoid masks with valves, which allow a wearer’s breath to pass out unfiltered, spreading germs. Disposable surgical masks are less effective but still reduce your COVID-19 risk especially if well fitting.
I’m a Microplastics Researcher. Here’s How To Limit Their Dangers
WEBFeb 27, 2024 · An invisible invasion by land, air and sea: Microscopic plastic pieces are in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink – bottled or not. For more than three decades, UC San Francisco Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, has researched how the toxic chemicals that ...
What is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)? | UC San Francisco
WEBNov 8, 2022 · RSV is highly infectious and spreads by close contact through droplets containing the virus when someone coughs or sneezes. It is also spread by touching items and surfaces (like doorknobs and toys) contaminated with droplets, and then touching the nose and eyes. Direct contact with the virus, like kissing the face of a child with RSV, also ...
A Cure for Multiple Sclerosis? Scientists Say Within Our Lifetime
WEBJun 12, 2024 · A generation ago, most people with multiple sclerosis could expect to rely on walkers and wheelchairs or be limited to their bed within 15 years of diagnosis. Today, UC San Francisco’s discoveries are keeping millions with MS healthier for longer – many disability-free. Now, the university is paving the way for an MS cure in our lifetimes.
Long-Term Prognosis for Some Patients With Severe Brain Injury …
WEBJul 21, 2021 · New research adds to a body of evidence indicating decisions about withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) should not be made in the early days following injury.
Expert: Here’s What to Know About the MPox Outbreak Emergency
WEBAug 21, 2024 · The World Health Organization last week declared mpox (previously monkeypox) to be a global health emergency. The disease experienced a global outbreak in 2022, which subsided in Europe, Asia and the Americas but continued to increase in parts of Africa. New cases in Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and, most recently, a case in Sweden, prompted ...
Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer?
WEBMar 5, 2024 · UC San Francisco researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition. The new drug candidate permanently modifies a wily cancer-causing mutation, called K-Ras G12D, that is responsible for nearly half of …
40 Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic | UC San Francisco
WEBJun 4, 2021 · By Lisa Cisneros. Over the past four decades, UCSF has led the way in its heroic and committed response to the AIDS epidemic, both locally and globally. This timeline covers some of the highlights over the past 40 years at UCSF, in the nation and around the world after a mysterious outbreak affecting …
Neurosciences | UC San Francisco
WEBAug 19, 2024 · Neurosciences. Researchers and clinicians at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences are working together to find better ways of monitoring, maintaining, and even enhancing brain health across the lifespan. From autism to anxiety to Alzheimer’s, neurological and psychiatric disorders are among the …