This Date in UCSF History: Mindfulness Meditation: Key to a Longer, Stress-Free Life?

[Originally published in Synapse on March 14, 2013.] During my first year of pharmacy school, I attended an alternative medicine Saturday elective where Dr. Dean Ornish spoke about the benefits of meditation and the effect it has on lengthening our chromosomal telomeres. Telomeres are portions of...

March 17, 2026

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Ringing in the New Year with Neck Pain?

January 20, 2015

Ilka Felsen

Similar to the low back, it’s difficult to determine the definitive cause of neck pain. However, neck pain can present...

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UCSF’s Ebola treatment center is a permanent commitment to treating highly infectious diseases

January 20, 2015

Sean Treacy-Abarca

As UC San Francisco transitions its personnel and operations from the Mt. Zion campus to Mission Bay, one critical piece...

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New lenses allow colorblind to see brilliant color

January 6, 2015

Alex Greer

Red/green colorblindness is a genetic, X-linked trait that affects upward of 7 percent of the male population in the U.S...

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UCaSeFiles: Street Drugs: There’s Nothing Sweet About Them

January 6, 2015

Theresa Poulos

A young man with a known history of recreational drug use was found unresponsive and brought in by ambulance to...

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Why Walgreens orthotics are just as good as customized orthotics, and other secrets

January 6, 2015

Ilka Felsen

There are a few jewels I’ve come upon at my time here as a physical therapy student. Keep reading for...

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EM Everywhere: 2nd Annual NorCal Emergency Medicine Student Symposium Hosted by EMIG

January 6, 2015

Lauren Fryling

It has been only 35 years since emergency medicine was officially recognized as a specialty, and yet in that time...

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Do You Have a Sugar Belly? UCSF’s SugarScience Educates the Public on the Truth behind Added Sugar

December 21, 2014

Hanna Starobinets

SugarScience is a website developed by UCSF to act as an authoritative source for the scientific evidence about the effects...

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Social Histories: Physicians share stories of mortality in medicine

December 7, 2014

Angela Broad

“Can stories teach us how to let go?” Dr. Joseph Pace queried the standing-room-only audience at “Social Histories,” an event...

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6 Things Your Knees Will Thank You For

November 19, 2014

Ilka Felsen

Knee pain is extremely common and annoying! Approximately 25 percent of adults have knee pain, and even scarier, the rate...

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This Date in UCSF History: Mindfulness Meditation: Key to a Longer, Stress-Free Life?

Ringing in the New Year with Neck Pain?

UCSF’s Ebola treatment center is a permanent commitment to treating highly infectious diseases

New lenses allow colorblind to see brilliant color

UCaSeFiles: Street Drugs: There’s Nothing Sweet About Them

Why Walgreens orthotics are just as good as customized orthotics, and other secrets

EM Everywhere: 2nd Annual NorCal Emergency Medicine Student Symposium Hosted by EMIG

Do You Have a Sugar Belly? UCSF’s SugarScience Educates the Public on the Truth behind Added Sugar

Social Histories: Physicians share stories of mortality in medicine

6 Things Your Knees Will Thank You For

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