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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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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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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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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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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 …

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Health UCSF Magazine

WEBHealth; Winter 2024; A Prescription for Loneliness; Health; Winter 2023; The Kids Are Not All Right; Health; Summer 2022; Get Back in the Game; Health; Summer 2022

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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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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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ER: The Hospital’s First Line of Defense UCSF Magazine

WEBIn mid-March, as the novel coronavirus proliferated in California, UCSF Hellen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights erected military-grade shelters where members of the …

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How Can I Support a Friend Facing a Medical Crisis

WEBListen mindfully. There is not a right thing to say but more a right way to be, Perlis says. She recommends mindful listening to better understand who someone is and what they are …

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

WEBKatherine Possin: When it comes to brain health, neuropsychologists like myself consider race or ethnicity to be a crude proxy for lifelong social experience. If you …

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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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A Prescription for Loneliness UCSF Magazine

WEBMeanwhile, social prescribing – recommending community resources or activities that can help address social needs – is burgeoning. A prescription for …

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What You Didn’t Learn in School about Sexual Health

WEBOne theme popped up again and again in UCSF interviews about sexual health: shame. Take, for example, sexual health education. Mara Decker, DrPH, MHS, an assistant …

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