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Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood causes poorer cardiovascular health

If an expert were to point to a down-at-heels neighborhood and declare that people who live there have worse health than people who live in a more prosperous neighborhood nearby, few of us would be surprised. But does the neighborhood introduce health risks, or does it simply group together people...

Eastmont Mall Site of Mass COVID-19 Testing Event on Aug. 22-23 Led by Dr. Kim Rhoads

Oakland residents are invited to Eastmont Mall August 22-23, 2020, to attend the largest COVID-19 testing event ever staged in the East Bay. Umoja Health, a network of doctors in San Francisco, and Oakland Frontline Healers anticipate that more than 1,000 people per day will be tested via drive-...

Op-Ed: How the pandemic divided California in two

California marked a grim milestone this week, surpassing 11,000 COVID-19 deaths and 600,000 cases. With the coronavirus outbreak still raging in many parts of the state, Gov. Gavin Newsom is toggling between tightening restrictions in some places and rolling them back in others.

California Coronavirus Map and Case Count

At least 101 new coronavirus deaths and 6,414 new cases were were reported in California on July 30. Over the past week, there have been an average of 8,728 cases per day, about the same as the average two weeks earlier. As of Friday afternoon, there have been at least 494,900 cases and 9,023...

Postdoc Alicia Riley is pioneering more ethical use of social media data to track cycles of gang violence and grief

Soon after Twitter launched in 2007, it dawned on social scientists, epidemiologists and policy wonks that the social media platform could be used to gather and analyze big datasets quickly and at low cost. Mental health and crime were two obvious topics. Law enforcement agencies also crept into...

UCSF welcomes Cohort 8 RISE fellows for Summer Institute

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, in partnership with the Center for Vulnerable Populations, is hosting 10 early-career faculty for two weeks beginning July 20 as part of the Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) program.

Meet Dr. Patience Afulani, researcher giving voice to women’s experiences

In many health facilities around the world, people giving birth can walk into different realities. There’s the experience of people who have connections or who belong to the right group. Then there’s the experience of those walking into an unfamiliar place, lacking resources or stature. These...

Older adults who can really smell the roses may face lower likelihood of dementia

Vision, hearing, touch, olfaction linked to cognition, UCSF study shows

Health Maps project allows a closer look at cancer trends

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has maintained, since 1973, a registry of every diagnosed case of cancer within participating U.S. states and a few smaller localities, including the Bay Area.

Study methods make the drug pipeline, and the methods are lacking

Cancer clinical trial design could perhaps benefit from more epidemiological support, according to Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, whose recent research evaluates the success or failure of efforts by pharmaceutical companies and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed drug approvals and improve...