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  • New UCSF clinic helps to provide diagnoses for neurological conditions

    New UCSF clinic helps to provide diagnoses for neurological conditions
    2024/11/05
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Diagnosing a neurological condition can be difficult, putting patients through a range of mental and physical difficulties. A new clinic at UCSF is hoping to make it easier for patients to navigate the system. For more KCBS Radio's News Anchor Bret Burkhart spoke with Dr. Maggie Waung, Neurologist and director of the Neurology Complex Diagnosis Clinic at UC-SF Health.
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  • Doctors are shifting their treatment plan for concussions

    Doctors are shifting their treatment plan for concussions
    2024/10/29
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Concussions are fairly common injuries in many sports. The guidelines for diagnosing and treating has recently changed with hopes of getting athletes back on the field sooner. For more KCBS Radio's News Anchor Bret Burkhart spoke with Dr. Nicolas Hatamiya, Primary care sports medicine specialist who treats adults and children at UCSF Health.
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  • Reporting breast density results and how they can indicate cancer risk

    Reporting breast density results and how they can indicate cancer risk
    2024/10/22
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Cancer can go undetected in what doctors call “dense breast tissue.” But there hasn’t been any federal regulation around if, or how, mammography centers tell patients about potential risks and additional screening options, until now. For more KCBS Radio's Patti Reising spoke with Dr. Karla Kerlikowske, Professor in the departments of medicine and epidemiology and bio-statistics at UCSF School of Medicine.
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  • Young athletes should diversify their exercises

    Young athletes should diversify their exercises
    2024/10/15
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. With the Fall youth sports season now in full swing you may be getting concerned about injuries mounting up for your kids. To discuss it more KCBS Anchor Patti Reising spoke with Dr. Nirav Pandya, Pediatric orthopedic surgeon at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.
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  • Childhood trauma can linger well into adulthood

    Childhood trauma can linger well into adulthood
    2024/10/09
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. As the saying goes, time heals all wounds, but trauma has a way of getting under the skin. A new study out of UCSF suggests that our childhood trauma sticks with us much longer than we might expect. For more KCBS Radio's Patti Reising spoke with Dr. Ashwin Kotwal, Geriatrics & Palliative Care physician at UCSF Health and senior author of the study.
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  • Bringing awareness to Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the LGBTQ community

    Bringing awareness to Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the LGBTQ community
    2024/10/01
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. LGBTQ Patients afflicted with Inflammatory Bowel Disease now have a place to turn in the Bay Area. For more KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart spoke with Dr. Justin Field, a Gastroenterologist with UCSF Health who founded the Rainbow clinic.
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  • Despite the heat, flu season is upon us

    Despite the heat, flu season is upon us
    2024/09/24
    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. It's officially now fall, and that means Flu Season is upon us. For more KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart spoke with Dr. George Rutherford, UCSF Professor of epidemiology and Director of Prevention & Public Health Group at UCSF.
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  • How treatment for muscular dystrophy evolved and is continuing to advance

    How treatment for muscular dystrophy evolved and is continuing to advance
    2024/09/17

    KCBS, in partnership with UCSF Health presents, As Prescribed, a weekly conversation with leading medical experts from UCSF Medical center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.

    It is hard to believe that a quarter of a million American's are living with muscular dystrophy. It's the reason September has been set aside to recognize the challenges associated with the illness and the progress that's been made in treating it.

    For more, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart spoke with Dr. Pritikanta Paul, neurologist, with UCSF Health

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    8 分