Articles in Health Information Videos
From the Balance Beam to the State Bar. UCSF Patient Turns Life-Threatening Condition into Source of Strength. Angelica Galang loves competition. Feisty and determined for as long as she can remember, Galang became interested in gymnastics at the age of four after watching the U.S. women’s team win the team bronze medal at the 1992 [...]
Continue reading "From the Balance Beam to the State Bar." >>
Male and Female Behavior Deconstructed. UCSF Team Uncovers Genes Influenced by Sex Hormones that Control Masculine and Feminine Behaviors in Mice. … How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of collecting pups, and [...]
Continue reading "Male and Female Behavior Deconstructed." >>
Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden … The Toxic Truth About Sugar with Robert Lustig, MD Robert H. Lustig, MD, and a team of UCSF researchers argue that sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health. In a new report, they maintain that sugar is fueling a [...]
Continue reading "Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden." >>
The Economic Cost of Uterine Fibroids … Dr. James Segars, head of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Unit on Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, explains results of the study, “The Economic Annual Cost of Uterine Leiomyomata in the United States.” … Uterine leiomyomas Fifty percent of women in the United States develop [...]
Continue reading "The Economic Cost of Uterine Fibroids." >>
Fantastic voyage: Stanford researcher offers a virtual flight through the brain “A single human brain has more switches than all the computers, routers and Internet connections on Earth,” said Stephen J. Smith, PhD, a Stanford professor of molecular and cellular physiology, as he took a Macworld audience on a breathtaking HD video tour of the most amazing computer of all [...]
Continue reading "Fantastic voyage: Virtual flight through the brain (Video)." >>
New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival Clinical Studies in U.S. and China Show Molecular Test Could More Accurately Guide Treatment for People with Lung Cancer … New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival In the two largest clinical studies ever conducted on the molecular genetics of lung cancer, an international team led by scientists at the [...]
Continue reading "New Lung Cancer Test Predicts Survival." >>
Gladstone Scientists Identify Protein that Contributes to Symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease Research Breakthrough Could Improve Lives of Millions with Neurodegernative Disease … RGS4: A New Target for PD Therapy? Dysregulation of striatal plasticity contributes to the pathology of Parkinson’s disease. Anatol Kreitzer and colleagues identify RGS4 as a key regulator of synaptic plasticity in striatal [...]
UCSF Shares $25-Million Grant To Find Epilepsy Genes UCSF-Led Study to Sequence DNA Rrom 4,000 People with Epilepsy To probe the genetic secrets of one of the most common neurological diseases, more than 4,000 people with various forms of epilepsy will have their DNA decoded over the next five years in a study led by [...]
Continue reading "UCSF Shares $25-Million Grant To Find Epilepsy Genes." >>
Good news for marathoners Underlying heart disease blamed for increased reports of cardiac events “The general consensus — based on intense media coverage of cardiac arrests that happen during these races — has been that the risk was very high. But we found that the risk of cardiac arrest for marathon and half-marathon runners is [...]
American Sign Language (ASL) – Medicare Basics … … This video in American Sign Language (ASL) provides an overview of Medicare, including Medicare Parts A, B, C & D. It also discusses Medicare-covered preventive services and the difference between the Medicare and Medicaid programs. ### * The above information is adapted from materials provided by USA [...]
Continue reading "American Sign Language (ASL) – Medicare Basics" >>
