Anti-Asian Racism Escalates During COVID-19
The pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
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University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFThe pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
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Amid the COVID-19 chaos in many hospitals, emergency medicine physicians in seven cities around the country experienced rising levels of anxiety and emotional exhaustion, regardless of the intensity of the local surge, according to a new analysis led by UCSF.
Seniors who can identify smells like roses, turpentine, paint-thinner and lemons, and have retained their senses of hearing, vision and touch, may have half the risk of developing dementia as their peers with marked sensory decline, according to a new UCSF study.
Two innovative UCSF projects in hydrogel therapies to develop new salivary glands and restore muscle loss after facial injuries have received critical funding to move closer to clinical trials.
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None of the individual tumor genetic differences that were identified are likely to explain significant differences in health outcomes or to prevent Black Americans from benefiting from a new generation of precision prostate cancer therapies, researchers say, as long as the therapies are applied equitably.
A little-studied liver protein may be responsible for the well-known benefits of exercise on the aging brain.
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A new model of the causes of breast cancer, created by a team led by researchers at UCSF, Genentech and Stanford University, is designed to capture the complex interrelationships between dozens of primary and secondary breast cancer causes and stimulate further research.
A new study by UCSF researchers identified a surprising way that the brain’s immune cells help to form new memories.
The declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic in March resulted in a rapid decrease in step counts worldwide.
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LGBTQ+ communities have experienced increased anxiety and depression since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who haven’t struggled with these conditions before.
The nationwide clinical trial will assess whether the common antibiotic azithromycin can reduce hospitalization stays and death caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Older adults with chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract may develop dementia more than seven years earlier than those without the condition.
Under a new agreement, Celgene will further invest in the RAN’s state-of-the-art antibody engineering program to expand target discovery from oncology and immunology to include neurology.
The finding could offer additional insights into other immune conditions, including a type of childhood leukemia and the severe inflammation response in some children with COVID-19.
Older men who have a weak or irregular circadian rhythm guiding their daily cycles of rest and activity are more likely to later develop Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study by scientists at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences who analyzed 11 years of data for nearly 3,000 independently living older men.
Pregnant women with the metabolic condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have more than four times the risk of serious adverse maternal-fetal outcomes.
Scientists have developed a prototype tool based on 3D facial imaging that could shorten years undergoing medical tests and waiting for a diagnosis for rare genetic diseases.
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