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Editorial: Reckoning with UCSF’s dark history of unethical medical experiments on inmates

It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical facility in Northern California. Only now has the institution begun reckoning with its dark history of medical experimentation on inmates.

Los Angeles Times

UCSF apologizes for experiments done on prisoners in the '60s and '70s

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.

Los Angeles Times

California university apologizes for prisoner experiments

A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s

The Independent UK

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Health: Finds New Infant Gene Therapy To Treat Artemis-SCID Patients

A novel gene therapy developed at UC San Francisco is on track to improve the health of ten young children who were born without functioning immune systems and without the capacity to fight infections. Read on for details:

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Want to email your doctor? You may be charged for that

The next time you message your doctor to ask about a pesky cough or an itchy rash, you may want to check your bank account first — you could get a bill for the question

The Independent UK

We need equitable depression screenings

A study on depression screenings in healthcare supports the need for equitable and universal care

Salon

Doctors often miss depression symptoms for certain groups – a routine screening policy for all adult primary care patients could significantly reduce the gap

Depression is a costly and debilitating condition that profoundly influences a person’s quality of life. In 2020, more than 21 million adults in the U.S. reported having at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. Depression symptoms increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now affect nearly 1…

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Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor – The Conversation Weekly podcast transcript

This is a transcript of The Conversation Weekly podcast episode: Psychedelic research: balancing trippyness with a new scientific rigor, published on September 29, 2022.

The Conversation

Did Marijuana Cause My Arrhythmia? New UCSF Study On Cannabis & AFib Provides Some Answers

According to a new UCSF study published in the European Heart Journal, substances such as cocaine, opiates, methamphetamine and even marijuana are linked to the most common type of heart arrhythmia - atrial fibrillation, often called AF or AFib.

Benzinga

So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger?

A new study suggests that. yes, there are superdodgers. But explaining why they've been able to avoid the virus is a bit complicated.

WEKU

Michael Hiltzik: How the University of California betrays its doctors, students and patients on abortion

One year ago, the University of California Board of Regents voted to approve an uncompromising policy governing the terms of partnerships between UC's medical schools and Catholic hospital systems.

Los Angeles Times

California COVID hospitalizations have quadrupled. Who is getting really sick?

COVID hospitalizations are rising again after more than two months of persistently high case rates in the Bay Area and California. But the doctors who treat these patients are seeing consistent indications that for most, the disease is less severe than in earlier surges of the deadly virus that has…

Tribune News Service

Abortion providers work to train specialists as Supreme Court’s Roe ruling looms

‘We can pass as many laws as we want, for or against access, but at the end of the day, if you don’t have trained providers, you don’t have choice’

The Independent UK

Can new COVID-19 vaccine win over the anti-vaxxers?

With three COVID-19 vaccines already authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Americans have easy access to plenty of shots.

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Why we need better COVID vaccines this fall

SAN JOSE, Calif. — New research by a team of San Francisco scientists is raising questions about the usefulness of a new omicron-specific COVID vaccine for next fall, as the virus quickly evolves and the risk of illness is likely to soar.

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COVID 19: Natural Immunity From Omicron Weak And Limited, Study Finds

The team of researchers has found that the Omicron variant induces only a weak immune response.

Daily Record

Unvaccinated people's immunity after Omicron is 'weak and vulnerable to reinfection'

Vaccinated people were shown to receive a boost of protection after having Omicron.

Reason

UC San Francisco Diversity Office Deems Some Asians to be URMs

UCSF's "working definition" of underrepresented minorities includes Filipino, Hmong, and Vietnamese

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How many California lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines? Scientists have an answer

LOS ANGELES — The arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in December 2020 marked the start of a new, safer phase of the pandemic.

Benzinga

Magic Mushrooms Are More Effective Than Antidepressants In Treating Depression, New Study Shows

A recent study led by Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research found that psilocybin could increase neuroplasticity in cases of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), even more than traditional antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The results of the study were reported in the journal Nature Medicine under the name…

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