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Specialized Twin Center to Open at Mission Bay Medical Center UCSF to Serve Growing Number of Twin Births in U.S. Adam Degregorio and Megan Taylor with their almost 6-week-old twin girls, Aza June Degregorio, left, and Dillon Taylor Degregorio, who is 6 minutes younger than Aza./ Photos by Susan Merrell With advances in infertility treatments [...]
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Infected Leg Saved, Triathlete Now Looks Forward to His Next Race Clifford Barnes heard the news in April: He might lose his left leg below the knee. The prospect was almost too much to bear for the 57-year-old triathlete, whose passion is competing in endurance races. “It hit me really hard,” he said. Doctors at [...]
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Anticipation of Stressful Situations Accelerates Cellular Aging Short Telomeres Associated with Increased Risk for Chronic Diseases Elissa Epel, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, examines the psychological process of how people respond to a stressful event and how that impacts their neurobiology and cellular health. The ability to anticipate future [...]
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Wilmot Cancer Center Recognized as One of Top 70 in Nation Becker’s Hospital Review analyzes data from independent sources to identify top Oncology programs The James P. Wilmot Cancer Center has been named as one of the Top 70 Oncology programs in the United States by Becker’s Hospital Review, one of the nation’s foremost publications on up-to-date [...]
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Q&A With Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD & Chair, Department of Neurosurgery Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD Stanford’s Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, has an international reputation as a neurosurgeon. For more than 16 years, he has chaired the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford and pioneered life-saving surgical procedures for several complex brain conditions. People with Moyamoya, a [...]
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Babies’ Colic Linked to Mothers’ Migraines UCSF Study Reveals Possible Cause of Excessive Crying in Babies A study of mothers and their young babies by neurologists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that mothers who suffer migraine headaches are more than twice as likely to have babies with colic than mothers [...]
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One in Ten Children Face Elevated Risk of Abuse, Future PTSD, Due to Gender Nonconformity Boston, MA — Children in the U.S. whose activity choices, interests, and pretend play before age 11 fall outside those typically expressed by their biological sex face increased risk of being physically, psychologically, and sexually abused, and of suffering from [...]
Benefits of hepatitis C treatment outweigh costs for patients with advanced disease, study shows Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert and his colleagues used a computer model to determine that giving new types of medication to patients with advanced cases of hepatitis C is cost-effective. A towering $60,000 bill, a year of fierce, flu-like symptoms and a running risk [...]
Partnering Robotics and Humans to Perfect Prostate Cancer Care … Using Robotic Surgery to Remove Prostate Cancer at Stanford: Gil Khalil’s story Gilbert Khalil’s fitness and bright eyes make it hard to believe he is 65. All that calm and confidence, however, took a big hit a year ago when his physician discovered trouble in [...]
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Teaching science to the religious? Focus on how theories develop Brown biology Professor Ken Miller understands that most students are religious. He is too. The way to teach science to religious students is to show how scientific ideas come to be, he says. Students can learn that religious people engage in scientific explorations of nature, [...]
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