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By surveying over 100 people in academic medicine, a researcher found that women are consistently excluded from important networking activities like watching sports, drinking at bars and playing golf.
L’augmentation de la durée des siestes prolongées fait partie du processus normal du vieillissement. Cependant, des siestes trop longues pourraient être signe de déclin cognitif.
When designing neuroprosthetic devices for users to control with their thoughts, engineers must take into account the sensory information brains collect from the environment and how it gets processed.
While longer naps are a normal part of aging, excessively long dozes could be a warning signal for cognitive decline.
During the pandemic, health care providers began prescribing abortion pills without requiring in-person exams. This practice could help people access the care they need when abortion rights are in limbo.
Disruptions to the lung microbiome are linked to a number of respiratory conditions in both children and adults.
Understanding when and how neurons die is an important part of research on neurodegenerative diseases like Lou Gehrig’s, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Communication breakdowns between doctors and their patients have real-life consequences and can result in poorer health outcomes and sicker patients.
The molecule C1q has both protective and detrimental effects after traumatic brain injury. Blocking it after injury in mice restored normal brain rhythms during sleep and prevented epileptic spikes.
How the immune system learns not to attack a developing fetus and placenta is important to understanding pregnancy and its common complications, like miscarriage.
What kind of evidence does it require to get a widely used chemical banned? A professor of medicine and former state regulator explains how the case for chlorpyrifos as a threat to public health developed.
Frente al aumento de los casos de COVID-19 con la variante delta, las autoridades sanitarias norteamericanas buscan detener la transmisión del virus.
The CDC guidance applies to areas with high coronavirus transmission rates – which on the day of the announcement covered 63% of US counties.
As Los Angeles County again mandates masking indoors – even for the fully vaccinated – local health officials in the U.S. are closely eyeing their own COVID-19 vaccination and infection rates.
Vaccines have successfully curtailed viral diseases for decades. But as COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy shows, mistrust and misinformation continue to put lives at risk.
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.
A new study suggests exposure to police violence may affect the outcome of a pregnancy.
The coronavirus pandemic has driven a lot of scientific progress in the past year. But just as some of the social changes are likely here to stay, so are some medical innovations.
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Scientific Program Leader at Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; Director, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
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Researcher, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Physiology, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
