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UCSF researchers found antibody levels higher and earlier in women who delivered before 37 weeks, in samples from more than 2,000 pregnant women. The team says its profiling tool could lead to new ways to screen for preterm risk and to prevent it.
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UCSF researchers tracking nearly 9,000 US adolescents found smartphone owners at 12 had a 36% higher chance of reporting any eating-disorder symptom. Because the symptoms are self-reported and the link is correlational, the result supports a screening question at checkups more firmly than a rule about phone age.
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UCSF researchers found depression scores about three PHQ-9 points lower when 19 adults cut ultra-processed food for four weeks. The result justifies the larger blinded trial the authors want; on its own it is too small to guide how depression is treated.
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UCSF researchers found 20 people with depression improved on three symptom scales after cutting ultra-processed food by more than 85%. Participants knew which diet they were eating, so the pilot mainly shows that a bigger trial can be run and does not yet show that the food caused the improvement.
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Seven of 10 popular IVF add-ons showed little to no effect, or only mixed and low-quality evidence, on live-birth odds in a recent meta-analysis. One US patient who used several of them estimates she has spent close to $200,000 on fertility treatment.
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The FDA cleared daraxonrasib on Aug. 26 for patients whose chemotherapy has already failed. The median gain is 6.5 months, and the price has not been disclosed.
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UCSF researchers tied 16 blood proteins that shift with menopausal hormones to a 15% higher Alzheimer's risk in nearly 12,000 older women. Those women were in their 60s and 70s, so a menopause screening test would need a study that follows the same women from midlife.
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The AlphaGenome Atlas replaces a compute-heavy programming interface with a browser lookup for every possible single-base change in human DNA. The evidence that its impact score flags disease-linked mutations sits in two preprints.
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UCSF and UC Berkeley recorded from inside the orbitofrontal cortex of six epilepsy patients playing a video game about bombs and rubies, a design forced by the scanner's blind spot over that part of the brain.
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David Talby of John Snow Labs reports 98.6% recall against hand-labeled ground truth and no measurable demographic gap across 24 subgroups. The available account stops before the three-month red team reports back.
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Their JAMA review reads two years of literature and puts autonomous AI ahead of physician-AI hybrids by 2030, while the AMA's chief executive says some of those studies are simulations that do not all point that way.
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Mutations in different autism genes break the same protein contact in UCSF's new Science atlas, and that observation is what ARIA is now paying $46 million to turn into a molecule. The organoid evidence sets the ceiling on what it can mean so far.
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A JAMA Network Open study set Reddit's menopause talk beside UCSF's charts. Cognitive complaints ran nearly four times heavier online, and the cause is a coding decision, not a mystery.
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A UK cohort of more than 180,000 women links HRT to 10 percent lower dementia risk, and 26 percent after surgical menopause. Neither of this week's papers is a trial, and they disagree on mechanism.
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A UCSF physician wants the diagnosis moved into the eating disorders chapter of DSM-6. The argument is administrative: placement drives screening, referral and insurance coverage.
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A Nature study of 62 psychedelic-naive adults reports that the feeling of dissolved self-world boundaries tracks integration between self-referential and sensory networks.
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