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Overall hospital stays remain steady after Colorado legalized cannabis, finds a new study, which also found fewer diagnoses of chronic pain after legalization, consistent with past evidence that cannabis can reduce chronic pain, even though there was an increase in car accidents.

5 years ago ucsf.edu cannabis

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings

5 years ago ucsf.edu brain

Medicaid could save $2.6 billion within a year if just 1% of its recipients quit smoking, according to new research by UCSF.

5 years ago ucsf.edu

Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System: Cancer cells secrete PD-L1–packed exosomes that travel through the lymphatic system or bloodstream to lymph nodes, remotely disarming immune cells and preventing them from attacking tumors.

5 years ago ucsf.edu cancer

‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs

6 years ago ucsf.edu universe

Medicine CRISPR Gene Editing Makes Stem Cells ‘Invisible’ to Immune System

6 years ago ucsf.edu

For the first time, human stem cells are transformed into mature insulin-producing cells as a potential new treatment for type 1 diabetes, where patients can not produce enough insulin

6 years ago ucsf.edu diabetes

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AI Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease Six Years Before a Diagnosis

6 years ago ucsf.edu ai disease

Gut immune cells may block brain inflammation entirely in multiple sclerosis (MS) if their numbers are increased, finds a new study using a mouse model and samples from human MS patients, highlighting the gut-brain axis in MS, and the first potential step towards producing novel treatments for MS.

6 years ago ucsf.edu brain