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UCSF to Host Wellness Expo on January 18 The UCSF community is invited to attend “Living Well at UCSF” during the Second Annual Wellness Expo on Wednesday, Jan. 18 in the Millberry Union on the Parnassus campus. The day is dedicated to promoting health and wellness of faculty, staff and students by offering them an […]
Flatworm Flouts Fundamental Rule of Biology Discovery at UCSF and Stowers Institute Shows Worm Regenerates Without Centrosome, a Structure Long Thought Necessary for Cell Division A tiny, freshwater flatworm found in ponds and rivers around the world that has long intrigued scientists for its remarkable ability to regenerate has now added a new wrinkle to […]
UN agency voices deep concern over continued ethnic violence in South Sudan These orphaned children received food from WFP after a humanitarian mission arrived in the town of Pibor in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on 3 January 2012. Photo: WFP/Rehan Zahid The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expressed deep concern today about the deadly […]
UN relief chief visits Sudan to discuss food insecurity in two states WFP food assistance being offloaded from a truck at a distribution site in the South Kordofan capital Kadugli. Photo: WFP/Mohamed Abdalla Reports from people fleeing two troubled Sudanese states indicate food insecurity and rising levels of malnutrition, the United Nations humanitarian chief warned […]
Pakistan: UNICEF hands over 35 new schools in flood-affected Punjab Children cook their daily meal in one of the 5,900 camps that sprung up across Pakistan in 2010 when the country was hit by the worst floods in its history. Thirty-five new schools constructed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with donor funding in […]
New Leadership Offerings Give HSPH Students Hands-on Practice It’s one thing to understand the public health implications of scientific evidence. It’s quite another to use that information to successfully implement real public health improvements. HSPH student Shaniece Criss participated in the group dynamics workshop The challenge of leaping from theory to practice has prompted the […]
Technology Becoming Key to Personalized Patient Care at UCSF Future UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay to Showcase Advances A mock up of an acute pediatrics room at the future UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay shows a multimedia wall. A man with a rare form of cancer sits in his longtime doctor’s office, […]
Fatuma Elmi in Geneva’s Palais des Nations during last month’s UNHCR ministerial conference Fatuma Elmi in Geneva’s Palais des Nations during last month’s UNHCR ministerial conference Washington D.C., January 4 (UNHCR) – Fatuma Elmi, a resettled refugee from Somalia, recently attended an international conference on the world’s forcibly displaced and stateless organized the UN refugee agency.The meeting […]
Conwell Named to National Health Care Innovations Program Yeates Conwell, M.D., professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been selected for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program. Yeates Conwell, M.D. The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October, will help health professionals enhance skills that […]
Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance Sophisticated “targeted” drug therapies are improving cancer care by selectively shutting down abnormal growth switches in tumor cells while avoiding toxicity to normal tissues. In some cases, though, tumors that are initially sensitive to these drugs first regress but then activate different, “backup” genetic signals that enable them to […]
Medications can be effective when they are used properly, but some can be addictive and dangerous when abused. This chart provides a brief look at some prescribed medications that—when used in ways or by people other than prescribed—have the potential for adverse medical consequences, including addiction. In 2010, approximately 16 million Americans reported using a […]
Saw palmetto Treatments
In men: used to treat and relieve symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH); shrinks the prostate and releases the squeeze of the urethra, so that, urine flows normally; increases urine volume, decreases frequent urination, and more ease of urination.
In women: helps relieve painful periods and regulates the menstrual cycle; stimulates the production of prolactin, a female hormone that promotes breast enlargement. Used to treat urinary tract and bladder infections; has an aphrodisiac effect by enhancing sexual functioning and sexual desire.
Actually, there is no reason to be embarrassed. Enlarged breasts are common among teenage boys and men, and breast reduction surgery is increasingly popular among guys. In fact, in the US it’s the fourth most popular cosmetic surgical procedure among males, with nearly 17,000 of them performed in 2009 alone.
Great news for all those women (and men) who have wanted to try the beautifying effects of snail slime but could never get past the “ick” factor. 20yrsyounger.com promises to get rid of the Ewww… while still letting women reap the anti-aging and rejuvenating benefits of snail slime cream. The process itself is called lyophilisation […]
The specific type of birth defect depends on the systems in the fetus developing at the time of alcohol exposure. Organ systems are most vulnerable to damage by alcohol during the period of most dynamic development. The damage seen in animal models roughly corresponds to weeks 3 to 8 in human pregnancy. However, if a woman drinks any time throughout her pregnancy, damage may occur.
