Combining genetic risk with cardiovascular disease risk factors — such as high LDL cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension — ...

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In a post-truth world, this false belief researcher offers a simple three-step recipe for building trust and finding common ground. Hint: It starts by recognizing you might be wrong. America has a ...

UC San Francisco and SF VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS) researcher Kristine Yaffe, MD, was one of a select group of global leaders in dementia and cognitive aging research invited to participate in ...

Psilocybin, a natural compound found in certain mushrooms, has shown promise in treating depression and anxiety. UC San Francisco researchers wanted to know if it could be used to help Parkinson’s ...

UC San Francisco Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor Carrie Cunningham, MD, MPH, has been selected as the new director for the Division of Citywide Case Management Programs in the Department ...

Weekday mornings used to be exhausting for San Francisco mom Lissette as she tried to shepherd her young son Andrew out the door to school. “He would need constant reminders to get dressed, brush his ...

Maybe a sense of calm comes with a walk in the woods surrounded by birdsong or during the quiet of your morning meditation or evening prayer. Maybe the rhythm of knitting or the earthy smell of ...

About 1 in 5 Americans experience at least one microaggression daily. While not usually overt, microaggressions are subtle acts of racism. And, despite their name, there’s nothing small about their ...

Nancy E. Adler, PhD, the visionary who co-authored the foundational textbook of health psychology in 1979 and dedicated her life to understanding the profound link between social factors and health, ...

Four UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences researchers—Joshua L. Cohen, MD, PhD; Sasha Gorrell, PhD; Alexandra Klein, PhD; and Nicky Mehtani, MD, MPH—have been awarded 2023 Young ...