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Polio pioneer battles new syndrome

...brace-builders at Rancho's post-polio clinic. She teaches at the University of Southern California and the University of California, San Francisco, consults with Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, Calif., on sports medicine and conducts...

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Eat an orange, banish a gallstone?

...said Dr. Joel Simon, the lead author and an assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of California-San Francisco. The findings appear in today's Archives of Internal Medicine. Smaller studies have found a similar...

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HIV infections up sharply in San Francisco

New HIV infections in San Francisco increased sharply in 1999, primarily because of increases in sexually risky behavior, the San Francisco Department of Public Health said Friday.

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Exercise reduces risk of impotence

WASHINGTON - If men ever needed a reason to exercise, this may be it. A study finds that exercisers are less likely to become impotent.

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Researchers say anti-bacterial drug will save lives in blood poisoning cases

...drug is the first to show any benefit. "This is truly a landmark trial," Dr. Michael Matthay of the University of California, San Francisco said of the new report, which is scheduled to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine next...

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Internet offers smokers another way out of addiction

...smokers have dropped in since the site started in 1995. And during the past year, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have had a brisk response to their ongoing research program, stopsmoking.ucsf.edu. The program's...

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Side benefit found for some on cholesterol drug

SAN FRANCISCO - Women 69 and older who take statin drugs to lower cholesterol may gain the added benefit of reducing their risk of breast cancer, according to an unusual body of research reported here this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

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Doctors provide a dose of motivation

...prescription for medication." Dr. Mitchell Feldman, an internist who trains primary care residents at the University of California, San Francisco, says counseling "is what most clinicians don't do. They like to treat things with five days of...

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North Texas man infected with HIV from donated blood

...donors who gave blood soon after being exposed to HIV, said Dr. Michael Busch, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco and an executive with Blood Centers of the Pacific. The tainted blood in Texas came from a man who was...

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Government gives $3.5 million in grants to prepare for embryonic stem cell research

...subsidiary of Bresagen of Athens, Ga.; ES Cell International Pte Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia; the University of California, San Francisco; and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in Madison. Embryonic stem cells are the basic building...

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