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1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection
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A decade-long effort has resulted in a new, rapid genomic test to diagnose rare infectious diseases in the brain and lungs.
on Wed, 11PM
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New Parkinson’s Treatment Helps Former Pro Keep Skateboarding
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An experimental adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) device had tremendous success in a trial that helped a Parkinson’s patient, who is a former skateboarding professional, resume skating and mentoring San Francisco youth.
on Sep 5
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Poor Sleep in Midlife Is Linked to Faster Brain Atrophy
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Poor sleep in midlife, like difficulty falling asleep or waking early, may accelerate brain atrophy linked to dementia, a UCSF study finds.
on Nov 4
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Could a Drug Prevent Hearing Loss from Loud Music and Aging?
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A newly-discovered gene may explain how humans go deaf both as they age, and in response to loud noise.
on Oct 18
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Physicians are Patients Too: A Medical Student’s Exploration of Physician Identity
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The refrain “In a healthy individual like you or me” is one I commonly hear as a medical student from residents and attendings on the wards.
on Oct 18
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When It Comes to Emergency Care, ChatGPT Overprescribes
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AI models can't beat humans when it comes to triaging emergency medical care.
on Oct 9
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The Douglas Lab at University of California San Francisco aims to use the same building blocks as life to create novel tools and devices that perform useful tasks on the nanometer scale.
on Sep 26
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Scientists Get to the Bottom of COVID’s Worst Pediatric Complication
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Scientists at UCSF discovered how kids were developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a mysterious, life-threatening condition following a COVID infection.
on Aug 8
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What to Know About Long COVID and How to Reduce Your Risk
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Researchers Micheal Peluso and Valerie Flaherman answer questions about what we know about one of COVID’s most enduring mysteries, including how to potentially reduce your risk and who is most likely to develop long COVID.
on Jul 28
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UCSF COVID-19 Trial: REVERSE-Long COVID-19 With Baricitinib Study
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This COVID-19 and Alzheimer's Disease study at UCSF ends December 2029.
on Jul 22
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I’m Visually Impaired. Apple Vision Pro Is An Amazing Assistive Device.
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I’m albino. My eyes are … different. In many ways, the world is not built for me. Every time I open Outlook on my iPhone and FaceID pops up, I have to pull the phone far away from its usual position — an inch and a half from my face — because the LIDAR sensors on the front that identify me were...
on Jul 20
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Scientists Discover a New Hormone that Can Build Strong Bones
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A newly discovered hormone explains why females can maintain bone density during lactation, when calcium is stripped away to make milk. This discovery could one day have applications to treating fractures, osteoporosis, and other bone diseases.
on Jul 11
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The University of California Must Divest from Israel Now
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When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its racist, immoral and illegal treatment of Black South Africans, the global community deployed the boycott, divest, and sanction (BDS) movement to pressure the South African...
on May 15
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Two of San Francisco’s Longest-Serving Hospitals Join UCSF Health
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UCSF Health has signed a definitive agreement with Dignity Health to acquire Saint Francis Memorial Hospital (Saint Francis) and St. Mary’s Medical Center (St. Mary’s), along with associated outpatient clinics in San Francisco. The organization hopes to close the transaction in spring 2024.
on May 1
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Welcome Sean Purcell, Digital Health Humanities Program Coordinator - UCSF Library
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Sean Purcell has been appointed to the digital health humanities coordinator position.
on Apr 9
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Decision Lab at UCSF (Chiong lab) | hiring
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Neuroethics + Decision Neuroscience. Research group headed by Winston Chiong, MD PhD in the University of California, San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Memory and Aging Center.
on Mar 26
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2024 Archives and Special Collections Summer Fellowship - UCSF Library
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UCSF Archives and Special Collections is seeking undergraduate applicants for the eight-week 2024 summer fellowship.
on Mar 25
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COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year after Infection
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The COVID-19 virus can persist in the blood and tissue of patients for more than a year after the acute phase of the illness has ended.
on Mar 24
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First Tissue Bank May Help Solve Mystery of Long COVID Misery
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UCSF will launch the world’s first tissue bank with samples donated by patients with long COVID.
on Mar 8
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To Appreciate Music, the Human Brain Listens and Learns to Predict
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Rather than simply hearing a string of notes, the brain is assessing them for patterns and predicting which notes will be next.
on Mar 1
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Are Body Temperature and Depression Linked? Science Says, Yes.
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People with depression have higher body temperatures, suggesting there could be a mental health benefit to lowering the temperatures of those with depression.
on Feb 6
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Remembering Dr Adele Clarke | Sociology Doctoral Program
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Adele E. Clarke Dies at 78; Leader in Sociology and Women’s Health by Monica J. Casper Dr. Adele E. Clarke, an internationally known sociologist and women’s health scholar, died on January 19, 2024 in San Francisco. She was 78. Throughout her long, refreshingly nonlinear career, Clarke made...
on Feb 1
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Could Bizarre Visual Symptoms Be a Telltale Sign of Alzheimer’s?
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Early identification of posterior cortical atrophy (PCA) may have important implications for Alzheimer’s treatment. PCA patients struggle with visual impairments like judging distances, distinguishing between moving and stationary objects and completing tasks like writing and retrieving a dropped item.
on Jan 25
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Alzheimer’s Disease is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows
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Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – spreading through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape.
on Jan 23
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Call for Proposals for the Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives - UCSF Library
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The Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives on June 5 - 6, 2024 is now accepting proposals through January 5, 2024.
on Jan 20
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Study Finds Paxlovid Treatment Does Not Reduce Risk of Long COVID
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A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection. They also found that a higher proportion of individuals than previously reported experience...
on Jan 4
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Timeline for Reopening Spaces and In-Person Services - UCSF Library
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To support the phased return to campus of UCSF’s education mission, and multiple construction projects currently underway in our main library building, the library is following the below timeline to reopen our spaces and in-person services. All services currently remain available and continue to...
on Dec 3
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From the First Bite, Our Sense of Taste Helps Pace Our Eating
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A previously unknown signaling cycle stemming from our sense of taste helps suppress our appetites.
on Nov 27
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Industry Documents Library Project Archivist
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University of California, San Francisco is hiring. Apply now!
on Oct 10, 2023