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Yes, Social Media Might Be Making Kids Depressed
Researchers found that as preteens used more social media, their depressive symptoms increased. Yet the reverse wasn’t true — ...
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Can Gut Microbes Save Patients from Chemotherapy Side Effects?
Researchers have discovered that some gut bacteria can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy, and that one family of cancer ...
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How Serious is Your Brain Injury? New Criteria Will Reveal More
After more than 50 years, the assessment of traumatic brain injuries gets an overhaul. Clinicians say the proposed framework ...
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Why UCSF’s Binh An Phan Believes ‘No One is Traveling Their Journey Alone’
As a motivating teacher with an eye for uplifting students, Phan has helped many in his own support network find their place ...
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A Step Forward in Treating Serious Genetic Disorders Before Birth
Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic ...
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How Do Middle-Aged Folks Get Dementia? It Could Be These Proteins
UCSF researchers have found clues about how frontotemporal dementia develops that could lead to new diagnostics and get more ...
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3 UCSF Scientists Are Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Neurosurgeon Edward Chang, MD, developmental geneticist Thomas Kornberg, PhD, and virologist Raul Andino-Pavlovsky, PhD, have ...
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AI in Cancer Care, Targeted Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks
Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapies, cancer genomics, using AI to personalize cancer treatment, improving diagnosis of hard-to-treat ...