Tag: Medical Research

Kaiser Permanente and UCSF joined forces on a groundbreaking study that confirms suspicions that the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia varies across multiple races and ethnicities.

The app claims to accurately measure blood pressure by having users place the upper edge of their smartphones on their chest while placing a finger over the built-in camera lens.

This groundbreaking procedure is the first organ transplant surgery of its kind and will be life-saving for thousands of people living with HIV. 

Michael M. Merzenich, PhD was recognized among others for pioneering work on the brain’s “plasticity” – its remarkable ability to rewire itself in response to new conditions, a capacity that underlies learning and offers the potential for retraining the brain in neurodevelopmental disorders and diseases

While it is well established that central fatigue due to strenuous exercise affects limb movement, researchers wanted to find out if this also impacts other motor systems, such as eye movement.

Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, head of UCSF’s stem cell program believes patients may abandon a promising field of medicine if they start having nasty side effects, start or losing faith that stem cells can enhance their health.