A new grant-funded program enables nursing faculty and students at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing to deliver mobile health care to underserved populations that lack access, including those experiencing homelessness, refugees and unaccompanied minors.
A 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran was exposed to Agent Orange and was recently diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. Using immunotherapy and turkey tail mushroom extract, all but one of the tumors shrank
A COPD patient was able to improve her quality of life dramatically after undergoing a minimally invasive endobronchial valve placement procedure. She was one of the first patients in Northern California to have the procedure.
The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, recruited people who were 50 and older and homeless, and followed them for a median of 4.5 years. By interviewing people every six months about their health and housing status, researchers were able to examine how things like regaining housing, using…
Pregnant women in the U.S. are being exposed to chemicals like melamine, cyanuric acid, and aromatic amines that can increase the risk of cancer and harm child development, according to a study from researchers at UCSF and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
