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Bring Lessons From the “AIDS Decade” to the Fight Against the Global Epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases There is a myth that chronic diseases such as cancer and diabetes are only a problem for wealthier countries. But in fact, noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) kill 28 million people annually in low- and middle-income countries. Eight million of these [...]
A Step Forward In Effort to Regenerate Damaged Nerves The carnage evident in disasters like car wrecks or wartime battles is oftentimes mirrored within the bodies of the people involved. A severe wound can leave blood vessels and nerves severed, bones broken, and cellular wreckage strewn throughout the body – a debris field within the [...]
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URMC Primary Care Network Receives Top Medical Home Certification from NCQA All 22 offices in the University of Rochester Medical Center’s primary care network have been nationally certified at the highest level to offer a new model of care that promotes partnership between patients and a personal team of health care providers. The network is certified [...]
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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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Making difficult choices about prostate cancer … 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 the prostate gland. Khalil and his wife, Stacee, turned to Stanford Hospital, where robotic surgery [...]
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A stem cell trial halted, but the pursuit continues Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD When Stanford neurosurgeon Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, injected human stem cells this fall into the damaged spinal cord tissue of specially-selected patients, it was considered a major step forward in moving research discoveries toward clinical application. In November, however, the Menlo Park-based Geron Corp. announced it was ending the [...]
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Gluten: The “new diet villain?” Last week, I treated myself to something sweet on Valentine’s Day: a mini, gluten-free coconut cream cupcake. Do I suffer from celiac disease? No, but for some reason I thought going gluten-free (for the afternoon, anyway) would be a healthier route to take. As it turns out, authors of a newAnnals [...]
For patients with advanced hepatitis C, benefits of new drugs outweigh costs 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. Using a computer model of hepatitis C, Stanford researchers have determined that two new virus-targeting drugs called [...]
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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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How one quantified-self patient is working to transform health care There’s a fascinating profile of Larry Smarr, PhD, a physicist turned quantified-self pioneer in Technology Review today. Over the years, Smarr has scrupulously measured and tracked his own biological data using laboratory analysis services and devices that monitor his sleep, fitness and eating habits. The information not only [...]
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