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网页2024年9月11日 · Precision Medicine and Personalized Medicine. Smoking and Tobacco. Stem Cells. Wellness. Events. View all events. Spanning the Bay. With more than 20 locations throughout San Francisco and beyond, UC San Francisco is an industry of its own, contributing greatly to the intellectual vigor and economic vitality of the Bay Area. View …
COVID-19 Masks: Expert Tips for What You Should (and Shouldn’t) …
网页2024年8月13日 · Chin-Hong: Medical N95, KN95 and KF94 masks all filter out lots of particles from the air and are the best at protecting against COVID-19. Avoid masks with valves, which allow a wearer’s breath to pass out unfiltered, spreading germs. Disposable surgical masks are less effective but still reduce your COVID-19 risk especially if well fitting.
Long-Term Prognosis for Some Patients With Severe Brain Injury …
网页2021年7月20日 · New research adds to a body of evidence indicating decisions about withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) should not be made in the early days following injury.
Working at UCSF | UC San Francisco
网页Working at UCSF. UC San Francisco is virtually an industry of its own. As a growing organization comprised of the university campus, UCSF Health, and UCSF-affiliated hospitals, we are one of the largest employers in the region. We invite you to explore one of the many employment opportunities that support our mission of advancing health worldwide.
Can a New Drug Candidate Cure Pancreatic Cancer?
网页2024年3月5日 · UC San Francisco researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition. The new drug candidate permanently modifies a wily cancer-causing mutation, called K-Ras G12D, that is responsible for nearly half of all pancreatic cancer …
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网页Locations. With more than 20 locations throughout San Francisco and beyond, UC San Francisco is an industry of its own, contributing greatly to the intellectual vigor and economic vitality of the City by the Bay. If you’re traveling to one of UCSF’s main campuses, affiliated hospitals or independent sites, there are site-specific maps below.
What is Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)? | UC San Francisco
网页RSV is highly infectious and spreads by close contact through droplets containing the virus when someone coughs or sneezes. It is also spread by touching items and surfaces (like doorknobs and toys) contaminated with droplets, and then touching the nose and eyes. Direct contact with the virus, like kissing the face of a child with RSV, also ...
I’m a Microplastics Researcher. Here’s How To Limit Their Dangers
网页2024年2月27日 · An invisible invasion by land, air and sea: Microscopic plastic pieces are in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink – bottled or not. For more than three decades, UC San Francisco Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, has researched how the toxic …
40 Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic | UC San Francisco
网页2021年6月4日 · By Lisa Cisneros. Over the past four decades, UCSF has led the way in its heroic and committed response to the AIDS epidemic, both locally and globally. This timeline covers some of the highlights over the past 40 years at UCSF, in the nation and around the world after a mysterious outbreak affecting gay men was first reported on June 5, 1981.
Expert: Here’s What to Know About the MPox Outbreak Emergency
网页2024年8月21日 · The World Health Organization last week declared mpox (previously monkeypox) to be a global health emergency. The disease experienced a global outbreak in 2022, which subsided in Europe, Asia and the Americas but continued to increase in parts of Africa. New cases in Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and, most recently, a case in …