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California, the nation’s single largest market for cigarettes, has one of the lowest taxes on them. A proposal to raise the tax by US$2 a pack could signal a sea change.
Precision public health has the potential to transform the global health sphere by ensuring that the right interventions are brought to the right people in the right places.
Counterfeit drugs and heroin laced with illicitly made fentanyl have been linked to overdoses across the country. So what can be done?
Three studies find higher rate of health issues for people who live near large or many fracked natural gas well sites.
California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
Uruguay fights tobacco more strongly than many countries 100 times its size – including the U.S. It recently won a battle against Philip Morris. Should others follow the example of this tiny nation?
Weight lost is often weight re-gained. Learning how to manage stress and find comfort are overlooked tools.
In South Africa, female sex workers go for HIV tests, receive counselling and use condoms – but don’t access antiretroviral treatments. More options are now available and can change this.
Field research in Oakland highlights a major issue that Americans have yet to face up to: how to deal with growing numbers of homeless older people in our streets.
Synthetic cannabinoids – drugs that mimic the psychoactive effect of cannabis – have been linked to injuries and deaths. And when one is banned, another rises to take its place.
Researchers have found that cutting sugar out of kids’ diets can improve their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of metabolic health.
If you want to know a child’s gender, just ask them and then listen to the answer.
Study of Pennsylvania, which has had a surge in unconventional drilling with fracking, suggests a link between fracking and higher levels of radon.
On the first day of the new Congress in January, anti-abortion legislators in the House introduced the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The bill would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, except…
Pulling bullets out of homicide victims makes up part of my job as a forensic pathologist, but not the most interesting part. No, I love a head-scratcher. Dead for no clear reason is the real whodunit…
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Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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épidémiologiste, University of California, San Francisco
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Assistant Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; Director, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Senior Attending Physician in Occupational Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Gynecologic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Physiology, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco