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What Will Health and Medicine Look Like in 2050

What Will Health and Medicine Look Like in 2050? No one can see the future, but that won’t stop us from trying. We asked UCSF faculty and alumni to score these predictions for likelihood and impact. By UCSF Faculty and Alumni UCSF Magazine Winter 2020. Tap the plus sign to open popups with background and related links.

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Artificial Intelligence: A Revolution for Health Care

WEBBy Elizabeth Daube UCSF Magazine Winter 2024. Electronic health records promised big improvements in health care but ended up making extra work for physicians and nurses. …

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Who Will Benefit From Precision Medicine

WEBA future in which precision medicine benefits everyone is not guaranteed. For that to happen, UCSF experts argue, the health care industry must first tackle today’s health …

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Health UCSF Magazine

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Building the Brains of Precision Medicine UCSF Magazine

WEBBy Ariel Bleicher UCSF Magazine Winter 2022. Keith Yamamoto, PhD, has been a tireless advocate for precision medicine across public and private sectors. Photo: Christopher …

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Tech Will Soon Give Us Precise Control Over Our Brains and Genes

WEBIn the past couple of decades, surgeons have installed them in hundreds of thousands of patients with epilepsy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and movement disorders, …

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An Epidemic of Inequality UCSF Magazine

WEBThe initiative relies on the support of community organizations, according to Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD ’94, MD ’99, MAS ’04, vice dean for population health and health equity …

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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis UCSF Magazine

WEB“The climate crisis creates so many more human health impacts than we typically think of,” says Wendy Max, PhD, a health economist in the UC San Francisco …

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What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure

WEBIt refers to unexplained symptoms that are new or worse since someone had acute COVID and that are not attributable to other causes. They persist for at least three …

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What’s Wrong (and Right) With Race in Medicine UCSF Magazine

WEBKatherine Possin: When it comes to brain health, neuropsychologists like myself consider race or ethnicity to be a crude proxy for lifelong social experience. If you look at the …

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Poor Health UCSF Magazine

WEBPoverty collides with health every day at UCSF, compelling clinicians and scientists to engineer ways to disentangle the two, one complexity at a time. It’s the nurse trying to …

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A Prescription for Loneliness UCSF Magazine

WEBMeanwhile, social prescribing – recommending community resources or activities that can help address social needs – is burgeoning. A prescription for loneliness could be a …

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COVID-19 UCSF Magazine

WEBRead about how UCSF is responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus respiratory illness COVID-19, including perspectives from infectious disease experts, …

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Probiotics: Health Hack or Hype

WEBMyth #1 All probiotics are created equal. They contain similar bacteria that will benefit anybody’s microbiome. If only! The microbiome is incredibly complex, …

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Uniting the Black Community to Defeat COVID UCSF Magazine

WEBPhoto: Anastasiia Sapon. Health-services researcher Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, founded Umoja Health Partners to unite about 30 community organizations combating COVID-19 …

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Sugar’s Sick Secrets UCSF Magazine

WEBLiquid sugar, in the form of sodas, energy drinks, and sports drinks, represents 36 percent of the added sugar we consume. On average, Americans eat about 17 teaspoons of …

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How Can I Support a Friend Facing a Medical Crisis

WEBListen mindfully. There is not a right thing to say but more a right way to be, Perlis says. She recommends mindful listening to better understand who someone is and what they are …

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Homelessness in the Time of COVID-19

WEBAnother is the insidious effect that racism has on health. COVID-19 is exacting a devastating toll on Black Americans, on Indigenous Americans, and on Latinx …

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