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Are Tau PET Scans “Lighting Up” Too Much of the Brain?

Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.
University of California, San Francisco

GE HealthCare and UCSF Health Announce 10-year Care Alliance

UCSF Health formed a collaboration with a large radiology equipment provider to enable expanded radiologic technologist (rad tech) education, magnetic resonance (MR) excellence, and remote imaging ...
University of California, San Francisco

As Health Care Goes Digital, Patients Are Being Left Behind

An NIH-funded survey by UCSF researchers found that despite the fact that digital health will continue to be core in health ...
University of California, San Francisco

Can a Med School’s Pathway to Residency Cure the Pediatrician Shortage?

Peds-START (Pediatric Specialized Training and Admission to Residency Track) is one of the only programs of its kind in the country that provides medical students interested in pediatrics early ...
University of California, San Francisco

Can a Pathway to Residency Cure the Pediatrician Shortage?

Peds-START (Pediatric Specialized Training and Admission to Residency Track) is one of the only programs of its kind in the country that provides medical students interested in pediatrics early ...
University of California, San Francisco

The Brain May Learn More from Rare Events than from Repetition

How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much ...
University of California, San Francisco

Periods May Trigger Pain for Many Who Have Sickle Cell Disease

UCSF researchers found that 64.4% of female patients report sickle cell disease (SCD) pain during menstruation. However, ...
University of California, San Francisco

AI Bots Accurately Analyze Big Data Set to Predict Preterm Birth

A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's ...
University of California, San Francisco

Scientists Find a Mechanism for How Exercise Protects the Brain

A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing ...
University of California, San Francisco

Can a Med School’s Residency Pathway Cure the Pediatrician Shortage?

Peds-START (Pediatric Specialized Training and Admission to Residency Track) is one of the only programs of its kind in the country that provides medical students interested in pediatrics early ...