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A Novel Approach to Aching Knees: How Specialists Are Using Artery Embolization for Osteoarthritis

Many providers have grown weary of offering the same old treatments – physical therapy, steroid injections – to their patients with knee OA, an increasingly prevalent condition that accounts for more than 80% of OA-related chronic pain ...

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Radiofrequency Ablation: A New Option for Benign Thyroid Nodules

Learn about a minimally invasive way to address an exceedingly common condition in this short presentation by interventional radiologist Alexander Lam, MD.

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A Handy Guide: How to Identify and Manage Common Upper Extremity Conditions

When patients present with pain, weakness or numbness in fingers, wrists or elbows, providers need efficient paths to diagnosis and initiating care.

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Catching More (and Better) Z's: An Expert on Common Sleep Concerns

In this talk for both clinicians and patients, sleep medicine specialist Kin M. Yuen, MD, MS, DABSM, answers the questions on everyone's yawning lips, including “How much sleep do I need?” and “What constitutes chronic insomnia?”

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Skin in the Game: How to Optimize Skin Cancer Detection in Primary Care

While PCPs understand the need to survey patients for suspicious lesions, they may have trouble incorporating skin checks into routine physical exams or lack confidence in distinguishing benign growths from concerning ones.

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How Race-Concordant Care Improves Outcomes and Experiences for Black Patients

At the UCSF Black Wellness Clinic, Black sexual and reproductive health providers care for Black individuals within a reproductive justice framework.

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Algorithm Improves Blood Sugar Control in Hospitalized Patients

Controlling blood sugar in the hospital setting is challenging for a variety of reasons including inconsistent caloric intake, changes in kidney and liver function, surgery, infections, and limitations in labor-intensive glucose monitoring ...

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How AI Can Help Streamline Patient Referrals and Expedite Cancer Treatment

UCSF investigators recently partnered with IIAM Corporation to determine whether a supervised machine learning (ML) model accurately predicts whether patients with head and neck cancer should be recommended for surgery based on the medical ...

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Interdisciplinary Vasculopathy Care

The UCSF Vasculopathy Clinic provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary care for patients with moyamoya disease, atherosclerosis and other conditions that cause intracranial vasculopathy.

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Signs of Multiple Sclerosis Show Up in Blood Years Before Symptoms

In a discovery that could hasten treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), UC San Francisco scientists have discovered a harbinger in the blood of some people who later went on to develop the disease.