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Do no harm: Challenges remain in delivering equitable healthcare to women

March 8 is International Women’s Day, and gender equality is one of the United Nation’s main international goals. Many of the socio-economic benefits that hinge on women’s empowerment rely on their ability to make informed reproductive decisions. And when it comes to women’s equality in healthcare...

UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Postdoctoral Program

The goal of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) is to provide accurate, timely policy-oriented research to inform appropriate programmatic and policy responses to prevent and end homelessness. Funded by a generous gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff, the BHHI, based at the UCSF...

To measure racism as a risk factor, UCSF researcher asks communities to help define it

In the last decade or so, epidemiological studies have begun to address the elephant in the room: racism. Racism lurks within all of the socioeconomic characteristics researchers analyze, but it’s not easy to measure.

What the evidence says about Medicare for All and other single-payer healthcare plans

Single-payer health care – in which the government pays citizens’ medical bills – is a divisive issue this campaign season.

Evidence supports holistic approach to helping women recover from fistula

Female genital fistula can be a life-altering, debilitating injury. Women with fistula experience physical symptoms such as uncontrollable leakage of urine and/or feces, nerve damage, pelvic bone trauma and infertility. On top of the physical pain, these women are stigmatized and see their social...

Brain tumor surgery that pushes boundaries boosts patients' survival

Survival may more than double for adults with glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, if neurosurgeons remove the surrounding tissue as aggressively as they remove the cancerous core of the tumor. This discovery, reported in a retrospective study headed by researchers at UC...

EpiBio team will explore lung cancer in Asian American nonsmokers

Smoking has long dominated the narrative of lung cancer, and it does pose a major risk. Yet, up to a quarter of those diagnosed with lung cancer in the United States have never smoked.

Tackling a deadly infectious disease: A drama in four acts

Dan Kelly’s work on Ebola shows how quickly global health work can alter the face of a deadly new disease when things go right.

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity in Cancer Disparities Research

The DREAM Lab and the Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has 1-2 openings for 2-3 year post-doctoral fellowship positions. We are seeking individual(s) to conduct population-based research in cancer disparities, including surveillance research...

Don’t trust those reports: Red meat is not good for you

Is it safe to eat red meat again? Meat-lovers are licking their chops over recent news coverage suggesting that red meat might not be as bad as we thought. Unfortunately, the headlines have been based on studies that really don’t offer much cover for red meat.