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What Will Health and Medicine Look Like in 2050

WEBWhat Will Health and Medicine Look Like in 2050? No one can see the future, but that won’t stop us from trying. We asked UCSF faculty and alumni to score these predictions for …

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Who Will Benefit From Precision Medicine

WEBA future in which precision medicine benefits everyone is not guaranteed. For that to happen, UCSF experts argue, the health care industry must first tackle today’s health …

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Probiotics: Health Hack or Hype

WEBMyth #1 All probiotics are created equal. They contain similar bacteria that will benefit anybody’s microbiome. If only! The microbiome is incredibly complex, …

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The UCSF Guide to Healthy and Happy Eating UCSF Magazine

WEBFor instance, studies link regular family meals to lower rates of depression and eating disorders, higher self-esteem, and better academic performance among kids and …

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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis UCSF Magazine

WEB“The climate crisis creates so many more human health impacts than we typically think of,” says Wendy Max, PhD, a health economist in the UC San Francisco …

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What’s Wrong (and Right) With Race in Medicine UCSF Magazine

WEBIn law, decades of so-called color-blind policies have clearly failed to achieve racial equity. It’s the same in medicine: If we simply ignore race, we will fail to call out inequities in our …

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What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure

WEBIt refers to unexplained symptoms that are new or worse since someone had acute COVID and that are not attributable to other causes. They persist for at least three …

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Building the Brains of Precision Medicine UCSF Magazine

WEBBy Ariel Bleicher UCSF Magazine Winter 2022. Keith Yamamoto, PhD, has been a tireless advocate for precision medicine across public and private sectors. Photo: Christopher …

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What Is COVID Doing to Our Hearts

WEBThere are many ways COVID-19 can affect the heart during the initial period when someone gets the infection, particularly in the first few weeks. These effects can include new or worsened problems pumping blood effectively, inflammation of the heart muscle, and inflammation of the membrane around the heart. It should be noted that …

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Artificial Intelligence: A Revolution for Health Care

WEBBy Elizabeth Daube UCSF Magazine Winter 2024. Electronic health records promised big improvements in health care but ended up making extra work for physicians and nurses. …

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An Epidemic of Inequality UCSF Magazine

WEBThe initiative relies on the support of community organizations, according to Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD ’94, MD ’99, MAS ’04, vice dean for population health and health equity …

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Tech Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes

WEBIn the past couple of decades, surgeons have installed them in hundreds of thousands of patients with epilepsy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and movement disorders, …

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The Cancer Breakthrough Boom UCSF Magazine

WEBFor example, cancers in the lining of the abdomen can be difficult to treat with typical chemotherapy, which circulates throughout the body. The latest approach, offered by UC San Francisco’s Mohamed Adam, MD, goes like this: Surgeons take out obvious tumors, pump chemotherapy right into the abdomen, then drain it back out.The …

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How Do We Achieve Excellence

WEBMonitor your thinking process. Doing this is not natural, and it takes great effort and vigilance. “In medicine, thinking is our most important procedure,” says Dhaliwal. …

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Greener Health Care Can Combat Climate Change UCSF Magazine

WEBDive into the future of health in this special issue of UCSF Magazine. The health care sector accounts for as much as 10% of the U.S. carbon footprint and 5% …

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AI Will Give Your Doctor Superpowers UCSF Magazine

WEBBy Ariel Bleicher UCSF Magazine Winter 2020. Illustration: Abigail Goh. Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates our lives. It manages our phones and homes, helps us …

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Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID UCSF Magazine

WEBPhoto: Anastasiia Sapon. Health-services researcher Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, founded Umoja Health Partners to unite about 30 community organizations combating COVID-19 …

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Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

WEBAnother is the insidious effect that racism has on health. COVID-19 is exacting a devastating toll on Black Americans, on Indigenous Americans, and on Latinx …

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