Health and Medicine (Video)
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Health and Medicine (Video)
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Incivility: Stress and Consequences
Rudeness is not just annoying. John O’Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," links everyday rudeness to stress and even broader health ou...
How Much Light Is Healthy?
How much exposure to daylight is recommended for optimal health? Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D., Salk Institute, answers this question and many more on th...
Public Health: How to Make the Invisible Visible with Katelyn Jetelina
Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden behind pay...
Resilience and Healthy Longevity with Anthony Molina
Biological resilience underpins healthy aging, and Anthony Molina, Ph.D., investigates how people resist, adapt to, and recover from age-related stres...
The Benefits of HIIT Training
In this excerpt, Dr. Natalie Marshall focuses on high intensity interval training, or HIIT. Dr. Marshall discusses the health benefits of HIIT which c...
Dealing with Difficult People
If you feel like there's more rudeness in the world, you're not alone. According to John O'Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," there's...
Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor
Focused ultrasound (FUS), also called high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), is a noninvasive treatment using sound waves to address essential trem...
UCSF Fresno at 50: Advancing Health in the Central Valley
Founded in 1975, UCSF Fresno commemorates 50 remarkable years of training local doctors and improving healthcare in California's Central Valley in 202...
Prostate Cancer: Symptom Management and Optimizing Quality of Life
Urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction are common side effects of prostate cancer treatment, but both are manageable. Dr. Lindsay Hampson explain...
The Grieving Process and Tips to Help
Danielle K. Glorioso, LCSW, explores the complex nature of grief, emphasizing that it is a lifelong, evolving response to loss rather than something t...
Cognitive Health and Resilience
Cognitive resilience grows from small, consistent habits that keep the brain adaptable. Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., frames mindfulness as mental training tha...
Translational Geroscience: Using Aging Research to Improve Resilience in Older Adults
Targeting the biology of aging offers a path to stronger resilience and longer health. John C. Newman, M.D., Ph.D., explains that aging arises from me...
New Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Dr. Rahul Aggarwal presents emerging treatments for advanced prostate cancer, highlighting rapid advances in drug development. He outlines therapies t...
The Science of Bouncing Back: How Resilience Changes Across the Lifespan
Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS explores how resilience—the ability to recover and adapt after stress or illness—changes across the lifespan. She explains...
Navigating Grief: What the Science of Resilience Teaches about Adaptation to Loss
Danielle K. Glorioso, LCSW, explores the complex nature of grief, emphasizing that it is a lifelong, evolving response to loss rather than something t...
Prostate Cancer Survivorship: Urinary and Sexual Wellness
Dr. Lindsay Hampson discusses urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment, emphasizing that both are common and tr...
Contactless Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Nerve Pain
Neurosurgeons at UCSF, led by Drs. Edward Chang and Anthony Lee, present a “contactless” microvascular decompression (MVD) approach for trigeminal neu...
Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer
Radiologist Dr. Julian Hong plains how stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is used to treat oligometastatic prostate cancer—cases where cancer...
Overview: PSA Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Experts present new tools for managing PSA-recurrent prostate cancer. Dr. Steven Seyedin describes how PET/CT imaging enhances detection by reducing f...
Treatment for Moyamoya Disease
UCSF stroke neurologist Dr. Anirudh Sreekrishnan and UCSF vascular neurosurgeon Dr. Luis Savastano describe Moyamoya disease, a rare condition where a...
Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer
Experts from UCSF outline the latest treatments and research for advanced prostate cancer, highlighting improved outcomes and promising therapies. Dr....
One Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS Epidemic
On his very first day at San Francisco General Hospital, Dr. Paul Volberding met his first AIDS patient – a moment that shaped his career and left an...
Neuromodulation Pharmacogenetics and Imaging: Biological Approaches to Tailoring Therapy
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Elysa Marco talks about various biological approaches to therapy. Series: "Developmenta...
Sibling Support and Developmental Disabilities
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Emily Hill talks about how sibling support can be a catalyst for family empowerment. Series...
Supported Healthcare Decision-Making for People with Developmental Disabilities
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Judy Mark, Vivian Do, Miguel Lugo, all from Disability Voices United, talk about supported...
Active Surveillance for Early-Stage Prostate Cancer
Urologic oncologist Dr. Peter Carroll presents the latest research on active surveillance as a preferred approach for managing low-risk prostate cance...
More on Localized Prostate Cancer
UCSF experts present four major approaches to managing prostate cancer, each tailored to disease risk and patient needs. Dr. Peter Carroll explains ho...
Introduction to Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer death among men in the U.S., with evolving screening and...
Reproductive Immunology
Ina Stelzer, Ph.D., explores how the maternal immune system adapts to support a healthy pregnancy and how disruptions can lead to complications like p...
Glycobiology (GLOW)
Amanda Lewis, Ph.D. investigates how glycan-degrading enzymes contribute to bacterial vaginosis (BV), a common condition linked to infertility, preter...
Immunotherapy and Prostate Cancer
Immunotherapy expert Dr. David Oh explains how the immune system can be trained to recognize and fight prostate cancer. He outlines key immune players...
Imaging in Gynecologic Disorders
Rebecca Rakow Penner, M.D., Ph.D., is a body and breast imaging radiologist and MRI physicist advancing how pelvic pain and gynecologic cancers are di...
Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
Radiation oncologist Dr. Julian Hong explains how radiation therapy works and its central role in treating prostate cancer, both when the disease is l...
Supporting Immigrant Children with Special Health Care Needs
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Dr. Raul Gutierrez,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospit...
Managing Obesity with New Medications
Dr. Robert Baron explores current strategies for treating obesity, emphasizing evidence-based approaches to diagnosis, lifestyle change, medication, a...
Enhancing the Health of Adults with Disabilities in Community Fitness Facilities
As part of the 2025 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Allen Friedland,
Terri Hancharick and Jack Jadach talk about a collaborative approach...
Managing Diabetes
Dr. Robert Baron outlines major updates in type 2 diabetes care, emphasizing that blood sugar control alone does not significantly reduce cardiovascul...
Radioligand Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC)
Dr. Ivan de Kouchkovsky explains how radioligand therapy delivers targeted radiation to prostate cancer cells using a radioactive isotope attached to...
Single-Cell and Spatial Multi-Omic Insights into the Human Placenta (HUBMAP)
Louise Laurent, M.D., Ph.D., presents new insights into placental biology using cutting-edge molecular and imaging technologies. As part of the NIH-fu...
Eat Smart Move More: 5 Takeaways for Prostate Cancer Health
UCSF researchers June Chan and Stacey Kenfield share evidence-based strategies for improving prostate cancer outcomes through exercise and diet. They...