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Periods May Trigger Pain for Many Who Have Sickle Cell Disease

UCSF researchers found that 64.4% of female patients report sickle cell disease (SCD) pain during menstruation. However, ...
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Scientists Find a Mechanism for How Exercise Protects the Brain

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing ...
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AI Bots Accurately Analyze Big Data Set to Predict Preterm Birth

A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's ...
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The Brain May Learn More from Rare Events than from Repetition

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...
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Active v. Latent TB: What to Know About the San Francisco Outbreak

In the wake of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB cases at a local San Francisco high school, IGHS's Priya ...
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For Global Health Care Providers, the Stakes Have Never Been Higher

A Q&A with the executive director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, Payam Nahid, that checks in on the state ...
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For Dementia Patients, Easy Access to Experts May Help the Most

A UCSF study found that a "collaborative care" model for dementia patients improved quality of life, reduced costs, alleviated caregiver burden, and extended the time that patients remained in the ...
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Immune Cells Linked to Epstein-Barr Virus May Play a Role in MS

A study from UCSF shows a previously unknown connection between the Epstein-Barr virus, known to play a role in MS, and an understudied type of immune cell.