Research
Assessing the health-related costs of tobacco use is essential for motivating and shaping tobacco control efforts. Wendy Max and her team are at the center of such efforts.
With a $25 million gift, ECG innovator David Mortara establishes the Center for Physiologic Research at the UC San Francisco School of Nursing to reduce alarm fatigue and improve patient care.
For 15 years, nurse-researchers at UCSF’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health have helped build an evidence-based platform for increasing access to comprehensive reproductive health.
The final installment of Professor Elena Flowers’ genomics journey.
Depression among U.S. women represents a significant public health concern. Interim Dean Sandra Weiss leads a number of studies to address depression’s potential effects on women and their children.
Doctoral student Kimberly Pyke-Grimm looks at how adolescents and young adults make decisions about cancer treatment.
In part three of this series, genomic researcher and educator Elena Flowers explores her risk for Alzheimer’s disease and takes part in the open and active debate at UCSF about the societal and ethical questions that surround direct-to-consumer genetic testing.
After pioneering evidence-based, trauma-informed care for women with HIV, UCSF School of Nursing faculty members affiliated with the UCSF Women’s HIV Program are bringing their successes to other health care settings.
As direct-to-consumer genomic testing grows, UCSF experts wrestle with helping the health care system and individual providers respond.
In the second “chapter” of this series, Elena Flowers – a genomics researcher and professor at UCSF School of Nursing – receives the results of having her entire genome sequenced and begins to explore what having those results means for patients, providers and the broader society.
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