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Obesity & Starvation on KQED Forum
On Tuesday, August 15, <i>KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny </i>assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain.
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Childhood obesity caused by "toxic environment" of Western diets, study says
A UCSF researcher has determined that a key reason for the epidemic of pediatric obesity, now the most commonly diagnosed childhood ailment, is that high-calorie, low-fiber Western diets promote hormonal imbalances that encourage children to overeat.
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Viral Genetic Differences are Possible Key to HIV Dementia
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.
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Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought
Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.
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UCSF Scientist and Colleagues Find We May Sleep Even Less than We Think
A paper published in the July 1, 2006, issue of American Journal of Epidemiology reports that early-middle-aged people (38-50 years) appear to sleep much less than they should, and even less than they think they do.
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UCSF Ophthalmologists Help Characterize Fungal Eye Infections
In a recent report published online in <i>Archives of Ophthalmology</i>, Maria Bernal, MD, a clinical fellow at UCSF's Proctor Foundation, and David Hwang, MD, FACS, professor of clinical ophthalmology and director of the Cornea Service at UCSF, along with colleagues in UCSF's Department of Ophthalmology, provide one of the first reports of an outbreak of soft contact lens-associated corneal infections due to <i>Fusarium</i>, an uncommon type of fungus.
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UCSF's Boxer Comments on Promising Alzheimer's Vaccine Study
A recent Japanese study found that a potential DNA vaccine for Alzheimer's disease cut levels of amyloid proteins in the brain.
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Sleeping Really Strange Hours? Maybe a Rogue Gene is to Blame
The earliest-rising morning larks and the most extreme night owls may have a reason to blame genes — sometimes just one gene -- for their being out of sync with the rest of us.
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Closer Scrutiny of Culture Warranted in Latino Pediatric Obesity Research
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, says that researchers should more closely scrutinize the cultural origins of attitudes toward food, weight and body image when studying obesity in Latino children.
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Potential New Treatment Strategy Identified for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain and Spinal Cord
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
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UCSF Autism Expert Sees Decline in Hype and Hysteria
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
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Gladstone Scientists Prove Neurons Produce Alzheimer's-Linked Apolipoprotein E
A question long debated among Alzheimer's disease researchers has been definitively answered by scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco.
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For Some Insomniacs, "Z Drugs" Bring On More Than Just Sleep
Sleeping pill sales have increased dramatically in the past year — in part due to hundreds of millions of dollars spent on direct advertising to consumers.
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Light adjustable lens shows promise for improved vision for cataract patients
A new light-adjustable intraocular lens is showing promise for clearer vision for cataract patients, according to results from early clinical trials.
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New Findings on Sperm Life Cycle Could Impact Fertility Treatments
A new study suggests a sperm's life cycle is shorter than previously believed.
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Skin Cancer Hidden Risk For Transplant Patients
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Key Heart, Alzheimer's Disease Protein Imaged For First Time In Native State
Using the technique known as X-ray crystallography, scientists have created the highest-resolution of a lipoprotein particle to date.
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Key Heart and Alzheimer's Disease Protein Imaged for First Time in Native State
Researchers for the first time have created a three-dimensional image of apolipoprotein E, a protein long associated with cardiovascular disease and more recently with Alzheimer's disease, as it appears when it is bound to fat-like substances known as lipids.
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New UCSF study finds that obesity is a risk factor for kidney failure
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
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Obesity a Risk Factor for Kidney Failure
Researchers have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
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Key Brain Antioxidant Linked to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
New results "support the idea that oxidative stress contributes to aging" in the brain.
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Key Brain Antioxidant Linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
A study conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has identified a protein found in both mice and humans that appears to play a key role in protecting neurons from oxidative stress, a toxic process linked to neurodegenerative illnesses including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Gladstone Study Links Alzheimer's with Toxic Protein Fragments
New research from the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease details exactly how a mutant form of the protein apolipoprotein E, also known as apoE, is a causative factor for Alzheimer's disease.
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Gladstone Researchers Identify New Drug Target for Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer's disease.
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Gladstone Researchers Identify New Drug Target for Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer's disease.
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Scientists Zero in on Memory-Related Proteins at Core of Alzheimer's Disease
New research sheds light on how the formation of long-term memories may be blocked in Alzheimer's disease.
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Scientists Zero In on Memory-Related Proteins at the Core of Alzheimer's Disease
New research sheds light on how the formation of long-term memories may be blocked in Alzheimer's disease.
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San Francisco VA Looking for Participants for Alzheimer's Study
Researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco VA Medical Center are looking for healthy individuals age 60 and older, with and without memory complaints, for a study on memory and Alzheimer's disease.
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Gene Strongly Linked to Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity
A new finding may open the way to developing drugs to prevent or reverse potentially deadly insulin resistance syndrome.