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Health and Medicine (Video)
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135 episodes
Health in Adolescent Girls
Adolescent health affects the well-being of teen girls in important ways. Dr. Jenifer Matthews and Dr. David Becker explain how hormonal change and em...
Aging (and Aging Caregivers) and Developmental Disabilities
As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Tamar Heller, Director, Institute on Disability and Human Development, University of Illino...
Health Policy Landscape for People with Developmental Disabilities
As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Claudia Center, Legal Director, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund talks about th...
Prostate Cancer: Radiation Therapy for Local Recurrence
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Steven Seyedin discusses radiation therapy. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Confe...
Targeted Therapies for Prostate Cancer
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Jonathan Chou discusses targeted therapies. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Confe...
Prostate Cancer: PSMA PET and Functional Imaging
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Spencer Behr discusses PSMA PET and functional imaging. Series: "Prostate Cancer P...
Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. David Oh discusses immunotherapy. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient Conference" [He...
Prostate Cancer: Biochemical Recurrence
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Peter Carroll discusses biochemical recurrence. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patient C...
Prostate Cancer Patients' Resources
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, the UCSF Patient Services Committee and California Prostate Cancer Coalition present a...
Prostate Cancer: Active Surveillance
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Samuel Washington discusses active surveillance of prostate cancer. Series: "Prost...
Surgery for the Management of Prostate Cancer
As part of the 2026 UCSF Patient Conference on Prostate Cancer, Dr. Carissa Chu discusses surgery for prostate cancer. Series: "Prostate Cancer Patien...
Self Advocate Panel on Mental Health
As part of the 2026 Developmental Disabilities Conference, Hari Srinivasan, Rishi Jena, and Héctor Manuel Ramírez discuss mental health and self advoc...
Tai Chi for Mind–Body Balance: What an East–West Medicine Doctor Wants You to Know
How can Tai Chi be medicine? Sunny Pak, MD, MPH, shares simple movements that steady the mind, strengthen the body, and enhance qi flow. Series: "UCSF...
It’s Not So Simple: An Examination of How the Internal Revenue Code Fails to Contemplate the Economic Realities of Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families
Families with disabled students often face extra out-of-pocket costs—costs they wouldn’t have if their child weren’t disabled—to secure the same educa...
Filling Your Own Cup: Self-Care from Both Sides of the Clinic Door
Balancing caregiving and career, Elizabeth Jalazo, M.D. traces how her daughter Evelyn’s early feeding challenges and later diagnosis of Angelman synd...
Is There A Right Time To Exercise?
Exercise is medicine, however, is there an optimal time to take that medicine? Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D., Salk Institute, discusses the benefits and...
Circadian Clocks - How To Optimize Your Health
How you time light, meals, and sleep can reset your internal clock. Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D. explains why morning light sharpens alertness, evening...
Incivility: Stress and Consequences
Rudeness is not just annoying. John O’Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," links everyday rudeness to stress and even broader health ou...
How Much Light Is Healthy?
How much exposure to daylight is recommended for optimal health? Satchidananda Panda, Ph.D., Salk Institute, answers this question and many more on th...
Public Health: How to Make the Invisible Visible with Katelyn Jetelina
Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden behind pay...
Resilience and Healthy Longevity with Anthony Molina
Biological resilience underpins healthy aging, and Anthony Molina, Ph.D., investigates how people resist, adapt to, and recover from age-related stres...
The Benefits of HIIT Training
In this excerpt, Dr. Natalie Marshall focuses on high intensity interval training, or HIIT. Dr. Marshall discusses the health benefits of HIIT which c...
Dealing with Difficult People
If you feel like there's more rudeness in the world, you're not alone. According to John O'Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," there's...
That May Be the Chancellor - Episode 14
Join Chancellor May as he meets a couple of UC Davis researchers and the people who have been impacted by their positive work on the UC Davis Health c...
That May Be The Chancellor: Episode 14
Join Chancellor May as he meets a couple of UC Davis researchers and the people who have been impacted by their positive work on the UC Davis Health c...
Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor
Focused ultrasound (FUS), also called high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), is a noninvasive treatment using sound waves to address essential trem...
UCSF Fresno at 50: Advancing Health in the Central Valley
Founded in 1975, UCSF Fresno commemorates 50 remarkable years of training local doctors and improving healthcare in California's Central Valley in 202...
Prostate Cancer: Symptom Management and Optimizing Quality of Life
Urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction are common side effects of prostate cancer treatment, but both are manageable. Dr. Lindsay Hampson explain...
The Grieving Process and Tips to Help
Danielle K. Glorioso, LCSW, explores the complex nature of grief, emphasizing that it is a lifelong, evolving response to loss rather than something t...
Cognitive Health and Resilience
Cognitive resilience grows from small, consistent habits that keep the brain adaptable. Fadel Zeidan, Ph.D., frames mindfulness as mental training tha...
Translational Geroscience: Using Aging Research to Improve Resilience in Older Adults
Targeting the biology of aging offers a path to stronger resilience and longer health. John C. Newman, M.D., Ph.D., explains that aging arises from me...
New Treatments for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Dr. Rahul Aggarwal presents emerging treatments for advanced prostate cancer, highlighting rapid advances in drug development. He outlines therapies t...
The Science of Bouncing Back: How Resilience Changes Across the Lifespan
Heather E. Whitson, MD, MHS explores how resilience—the ability to recover and adapt after stress or illness—changes across the lifespan. She explains...
UCSF Neurological Surgery Residency Program
What is it like to train at one of the top neurosurgery residency programs in the world? Follow three UCSF neurosurgery residents as they take you beh...
Navigating Grief: What the Science of Resilience Teaches about Adaptation to Loss
Danielle K. Glorioso, LCSW, explores the complex nature of grief, emphasizing that it is a lifelong, evolving response to loss rather than something t...
Prostate Cancer Survivorship: Urinary and Sexual Wellness
Dr. Lindsay Hampson discusses urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment, emphasizing that both are common and tr...
Contactless Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Nerve Pain
Neurosurgeons at UCSF, led by Drs. Edward Chang and Anthony Lee, present a “contactless” microvascular decompression (MVD) approach for trigeminal neu...
Radiation Therapy for Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer
Radiologist Dr. Julian Hong plains how stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is used to treat oligometastatic prostate cancer—cases where cancer...
Overview: PSA Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Experts present new tools for managing PSA-recurrent prostate cancer. Dr. Steven Seyedin describes how PET/CT imaging enhances detection by reducing f...
Treatment for Moyamoya Disease
UCSF stroke neurologist Dr. Anirudh Sreekrishnan and UCSF vascular neurosurgeon Dr. Luis Savastano describe Moyamoya disease, a rare condition where a...