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As Prescribed: How UCSF is improving child health with nature
“The Center for Nature and Health was founded in 2016, and our mission is to improve health and well-being of the world’s most vulnerable children through a connection with nature,” said UCSF Benioff pediatrician Dr. Nooshin Razani.
Liam's List - Holiday Edition: A Christmas Carol, Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet, Gay Men’s Chorus
KCBS Radio’s Foodie Chap Liam Mayclem is here to discuss this Weekend’s events from A.C.T.’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet.
As Prescribed: How UCSF doctors are fighting our fear of needles
“Kids are afraid of needles,” UCSF’s Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf – one of the world’s leading experts in pediatric pain management – told KCBS Radio’s Alice Wertz on the latest “As Prescribed” installment. “And this has huge consequences.”
As Prescribed: Ultrasounds usher in a new era of Crohn’s and colitis care
More than 3 million Americans have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) – which includes Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis – and this week is Crohn’s and colitis awareness week. UCSF is offering a new way to treat them.
As Prescribed: Taking a look at the first Type 1 diabetes drug approved in a century
Dr. Stephen Gitelman, a pediatric endocrinologist, joined KCBS Radio’s Alice Wertz on “As Prescribed” to discuss teplizumab, the first drug approved for Type 1 diabetes since insulin.
As Prescribed: Lung cancer rates rise in young women despite the absence of smoking
“The latest research actually shows that among young women – young women now are actually more likely than men – they’ve overtaken men in terms of their risk of developing lung cancer,” said Dr. Johannes Kratz, a thoracic and cancer surgeon at UCSF.
Liam's List: Oakland’s Magic Kitchen, Palm Springs Food & Wine Festival, Press Club's 15th annual Harvest Party
KCBS Radio’s Foodie Chap Liam Mayclem is here to discuss this Weekend’s events from the Palm Springs Food & Wine Festival to the Press Club’s 15th annual Harvest Party.
As Prescribed: UCSF doctors use genetic testing to treat fetuses before they're born
“Rapid genome sequencing is a newly introduced test that looks at all of the genes in a person, whether that’s a pregnant patient or a newborn baby,” said Dr. Mary Norton, of the UCSF Medical Center’s Prenatal Diagnostic Center.
As Prescribed: Breast cancer treatments offer more options than surgery
Right now, the standard treatment for patients with DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) – a condition that looks like breast cancer – is surgery. UCSF breast surgeon Dr. Laura Esserman thinks that could change.
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