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Better Cancer Care: Pearls From the Best Studies of 2022
Focusing on blood, breast and lung cancers, our specialists deliver exciting findings from the latest phase III trials.
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Cutting-Edge Approaches to Prostate and Breast Cancers: Reach the Right Decision for Each Patient
In this grand rounds presentation, you’ll learn the best risk assessment tools for prostate cancer patients, the latest surgical techniques, such as fluorescence imaging and high-intensity focused ultrasound, and tests that allow for matching patients with appropriate options.
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Louder for the Patients in the Back: Making the Most of New Hearing Aid Options
Hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline, so finding solutions that help patients stay socially connected is crucial.
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Assessing Cognitive Decline in Primary Care: New Tools and Algorithms for Everyday Practice
Although timely diagnosis can significantly improve a patient’s future, dementia is underdiagnosed and often detected late.
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UCSF Launches Initiative to Address Disparities in Pulse Oximetry Performance
This project seeks to improve accuracy for patients with darker skin pigmentation.
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Vestibular Migraine (and Conditions That Look Like It): Paths to Diagnosis and Care
In this guide to efficient diagnosis and effective therapeutics, otolaryngologic surgeon Caroline Schlocker, MD, walks providers through her rule-out process and clarifies criteria for vestibular migraine.
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Urinary Misery: How to Help Female Patients With Persistent Dysuria
In this resource-packed talk, urogynecologist Caitlyn E. Painter, DO, explains how to categorize causes, what to understand about urine cultures and other tests, and the latest evidence on which treatments help patients.
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Common Vascular Conditions: Simple Screening Rules and Better Treatment Tactics
Vascular surgeon Shant Vartanian, MD, presents an update on understanding and managing abdominal aortic aneurysms and peripheral artery disease – prevalent age-linked disorders with significant morbidity and mortality.
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Learning and Lowering Cardiovascular Risk: Effective, Efficient Strategies
This data-driven presentation from cardiologist Eveline Stock, MD, will give you a better grasp on how to identify an at-risk patient.
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Monkeypox Update: Cases, Risks, Treatments and Vaccination
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, delivers the latest on monkeypox (or MPX).
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Surgery for Epilepsy: Advanced Techniques and Appropriate Candidates
Many patients with uncontrolled seizures are unaware that they can be helped – and providers have an opportunity to start them toward a better quality of life simply by explaining the latest options.
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A Weight Off Your Shoulders: Better Ways to Identify Common Shoulder Conditions
In this video, orthopedic surgeon Justin Krogue, MD, helps PCPs efficiently assess the complaint, with tips on how patients typically describe specific injuries, valuable questions for history-taking, and simple hands-on tests to perform in the exam room.
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Better Terms and Effective Strategies for Primary Care Management
Urogynecologist Caitlyn E. Painter, DO, explains why the anxiety-provoking condition requires sensitivity from providers and how they can help patients understand the problem and find a solution – from Kegels to surgery – that suits them.
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Artificial Intelligence and Wearable Sensors Put the Gait Lab in the Patient’s Pocket
UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Stefano Bini, MD, in collaboration with Google’s Advanced Technologies and Products (ATAP) division, is developing technology that will revolutionize how providers measure joint function and quantify joint disease. This groundbreaking approach uses cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms and data collected from inexpensive, wearable inertial sensors to accurately replicate gait lab outputs for a fraction of the cost of traditional methods, and in any context.
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Lung Transplant Candidates: Shining a Light on UCSF’s Evaluation Process
In this short presentation, pulmonologist Jeffrey A. Golden, MD, describes how the specialists of the UCSF Lung Transplant Program work together to ensure their patients are likely to succeed, with a focus on factors that can make or break survival prospects.
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Focusing on Blurry Vision: Tips and Tools for Making the Right Diagnosis
From simple refractive issues to dry eye to age-related cataracts to emergencies such as retinal detachment, the causes of painless fuzzy vision vary widely in urgency.
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Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: A Guide to Causes and Solutions
In this straightforward talk, Tami Serene Rowen, MD, MS, FACOG clarifies how to distinguish abnormal from normal menses; breaks down the many reasons, both structural and hormonal, for the problem; and provides specifics on medical management – from doses to side effects – as well as surgical options and her favored techniques.
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Dry Days Ahead: Effective Strategies for Common Urinary Complaints
While stress incontinence and overactive bladder may not be life-threatening, they can be life-diminishing. Yet, with the stepped care approach presented by urologic surgeon Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS, FACS, clinicians can find a remedy to help almost any patient.
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Living Donor Renal Transplant
In this narrated surgical video, Chris Friese, MD, performs a right laparoscopic donor nephrectomy.
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The COPD Blues: A Guide to Optimizing Outpatient Management
For the 30 million adults in the U.S. with COPD, effective care requires providers to have an up-to-date understanding of treatment options as well as the ability to respond to changes in a patient’s status.
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The Evidence on Incidentalomas: When to Investigate, When to Rest Easy
This presentation from radiologist Hailey H. Choi, MD, supplies straightforward criteria to help providers assess lesions ranging from thyroid and adrenal nodules to ovarian cysts to pancreatic and liver lesions.
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Approaching Endometriosis: Deliver the Right Care for Individual Patients
Gynecologist Jeannette Lager, MD, MPH, associate director of the UCSF Endometriosis Center, offers a thorough update on this painful condition impacting around 10% of U.S. women.
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Slumber Secrets: New Insights into the Complexities of Sleep and Managing Common Issues
Sleep medicine specialist Rochelle Zak, MD, delivers a rousing update on what’s known about sleep’s stages and physiological payoffs, followed by her guide to assessing and treating insomnia – by far the main sleep issue seen in primary care.
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Keep Diabetic Patients on Their Feet: Keys to Identifying Limb-Threatening Issues
In a country where more than 9% of adults have diabetes, Alexander Reyzelman, DPM, discusses the implications for those who also have peripheral vascular disease.
