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Imagine you or a loved one missing school every month simply because they didn't have access to menstrual hygiene products to manage the blood from their vagina monthly. For millions of girls across ...
Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program.
Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998. Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four years, this morning felt no different than any other. Accustomed to my usual morning ...
Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia, including an estimated 6.7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s ...
During my years as a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), I never stopped to think about our funding. Usually, that is the responsibility of our trustee leader, the ...
When the waiting caught on fire the world rages Agitation No amount is the right amount When the burning turns into ashes hopelessness weighs heavy Void There is not ...
That was the declared purpose of the first Mother’s Day, which was organized in Boston by poet and women’s suffragist Julia Ward Howe in 1872. Howe’s establishment of a special day for mothers — and ...
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in healthcare refer to specific measurable performance metrics assessing the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of care provided by organizations to understand ...
This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La Semana de la Raza, an event annually sponsored by CHE (Chicanos in Health Education) here at UCSF. Someone new to UCSF might reasonably ask, ...