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Severe Infections During Pregnancy Associated With Complications Around Childbirth
UCSF Researchers Recommend Increased Prenatal Surveillance for Patients With Sepsis and Other Serious Infections By Elizabeth Fernandez Individuals who are hospitalized during pregnancy due to sepsis have higher odds of complications...
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California Faces Short-Term Nursing Shortage from COVID-19 Retirements
Report Calls Upon Employers, Policymakers to Develop Career Paths for New Graduates and Engage Late-Career RNs By Rebecca Wolfson A nurse walks into a temporary emergency department structure at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at...
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UCSF Study Shows Emergency Visits and Hospitalizations Made by Patients with Addictions Increased 30 Percent from 2014-2018
By Elizabeth Fernandez An increasing percentage of emergency visits and hospitalizations in the United States before the pandemic involved patients with alcohol and other substance use disorders, according to a study by UC San Francisco...
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Social Scientists File Brief Urging US Supreme Court to Find Mississippi Abortion Ban Unconstitutional
Research Shows the Long-term Physical, Mental and Economic Harm of Abortion Denial on Women and Their Families By Laura Kurtzman More than 100 social science experts filed an amicus brief led by experts at UC San Francisco and the...
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Community-Based Strategy Succeeds in Vaccinating Latinx San Franciscans
Newly Vaccinated People Become Ambassadors to Overcome Hesitancy of Friends and Family By Laura Kurtzman Susan Dang of BayPLS, contracted by UCSF, prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine during Unidos En Salud vaccination event in January...
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An Estrogen Receptor that Promotes Cancer also Causes Drug Resistance
UCSF Researchers Discover New Role for Erα as an RNA-Binding Protein By Laura Kurtzman Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and a protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. Image by NIH...
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New Kidney Function Test Takes Race Out of the Equation
By Sue Rochman Researchers have identified an approach to remove race from equations used to estimate a person’s kidney function. These equations have been criticized for potentially perpetuating racial health disparities. The findings,...
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Study Links Air Pollution to Nearly 6 Million Preterm Births Around the World
Data on Indoor and Outdoor Pollution Comes from All Inhabited Continents By Cameron Scott Air pollution likely contributed to almost 6 million premature births and almost 3 million underweight babies in 2019, according to a UC San...
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Happiness in Early Adulthood May Protect Against Dementia
UCSF-Led Study Shows Depressive Symptoms Increase Risk for Cognitive Impairment By Suzanne Leigh While research has shown that poor cardiovascular health can damage blood flow to the brain increasing the risk for dementia, a new study led...
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UCSF to Survey Entire Community About Climate for Inclusion
By Dan Fost It’s time to make your voice heard. UC San Francisco is encouraging its 33,000 faculty, staff and learners to participate in a confidential survey designed to help the University better understand people’s perceptions and...