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Improving Heart Health: What You Should Know About Lipid Management
Heart disease remains a leading cause of death–but as UCSF’s Dr. Robert Baron explains, there are clear and effective ways to lower the risk. In a recent presentation, Baron shares the latest evidence on lipid management, emphasizing statins as a cornerstone for preventing heart attacks and strokes. For people with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or…
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Built to Survive, Prone to Suffer: How Human Evolution Shapes Modern Health
Why do our bodies come with so many trade-offs—like back pain, difficult childbirth, or diseases linked to inflammation? Our newest CARTA series Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease explores how different traits in the human body evolve over time—some as early as 1.5 billion years ago—and how those adaptations continue to affect our health today.…
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Medicine of the Future
UCSF has a long history of pioneering biomedical research and a bold vision for advancing science and seeking new ways to improve health care delivery nationwide. But, what does that actually mean in the near future and beyond? This new series, part of the popular Mini Medical School for the Public, takes you inside the…