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High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening Video

High Risk for Breast Cancer: Methods and Schedules to Ensure Optimal Screening

Hematologist-oncologist Elham Vosoughi, MD, starts with an update on breast cancer stats, noting that incidence in the United States is increasing by 1% every year – with an even sharper rise for women under 50.

 UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year Video

UCSF Cancer Grand Round Series: 2024 Best of the Year

UCSF Health and John Muir Health specialists in treatments for numerous cancers – including breast, lung, bladder and colon cancer – unpack last year's influential trials, several of which established new standards of care for specific patient populations.

Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain Video

Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis: A Common Cause of Spinal Pain

This practical presentation from physical and pain medicine specialist Peter I-Kung Wu, MD, PhD, MPH, takes a deep dive into diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), a problem that particularly affects men over 50, bringing stiffness ...

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients Video

Keeping a Luster in the Golden Years: What Geriatricians Bring to Aging Patients

The complex and broad-ranging needs of older adults can be difficult to meet in the primary care setting – or by specialists seeing them for a single disorder

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools Video

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM): A Fresh Look at Health Impacts, Screening Tests & Management Tools

Having experienced GDM herself while pregnant, perinatologist Jennie Duffy, MD, understands the challenges for both patients and doctors in the quest for better glycemic control.

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Mandibulectomy and Reconstruction Restores Quality of Life for Patient With Rare Disorder: UCSF Case Study News

Mandibulectomy and Reconstruction Restores Quality of Life for Patient With Rare Disorder: UCSF Case Study

34-year-old woman with Fanconi anemia (FA) and oral dysplasia presented to the UCSF Head and Neck Surgery Cancer Program with mucosal changes involving the tongue and mandibular gingiva.

First Global Guidelines for Pregnancy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Developed News

First Global Guidelines for Pregnancy and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Developed

For women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), pregnancy can be an uncertain time due to limited clinical data about how IBD medications impact pregnancy outcomes and infants who have been exposed to IBD medications in utero.

UCSF Researchers Awarded Landmark Grant to Support Shoulder Osteoarthritis Research News

UCSF Researchers Awarded Landmark Grant to Support Shoulder Osteoarthritis Research

The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the Arthritis Foundation have awarded a $500,000 multicenter research grant to UCSF Health’s Michael Davies, MD, and co-principal investigators Brian Feeley, MD, of UCSF and Robert ...

Electronic Alerts Improve Treatment Rates of Valvular Heart Disease News

Electronic Alerts Improve Treatment Rates of Valvular Heart Disease

A new method of alerting clinical care providers holds promise for increasing treatment and improving survival for patients with severe aortic stenosis

Diabetes Medication May Increase Risk of Perioperative Ketoacidosis News

Diabetes Medication May Increase Risk of Perioperative Ketoacidosis

UCSF study finds sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors also lower risk of post-operative acute kidney injury.