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Spotlighting UCSF IHPS Faculty: Marissa Raymond Flesch, MD, MPH — findings from Raney et al. in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology on "Implementation of No-Test Medication Abortions in Primary Care: A Roadmap from an Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Clinic."
Featuring @ucsf-ihps.bsky.social Faculty: Reza Yaesoubi, PhD — findings from Murray-Watson et al. in Medical Decision Making on "Forecasting Local Surges in COVID-19 Hospitalizations through Adaptive Decision Tree Classifiers." Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
"Everything I see points to lower access to contraception," UCSF IHPS faculty Cynthia Harper in NPR. There's a birth control backlash online. Can it explain the rise in abortions? www.npr.org/2026/08/09/n...
There's a birth control backlash online. Can it explain the rise in abortions?
The number of abortions is up in the United States. Is it because fewer people are using birth control pills?
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UCSF IHPS's Laura Schmidt via @deciderdotcom.bsky.social: “‘Natural and artificial flavors, The companies decide what chemicals are safe." Netflix's 'Big Chicken: Fast Food Conspiracy' Documentary Will Make You Swear Off Fried Chicken For Life decider.com/2026/08/05/8...
‘Big Chicken: Fast Food Conspiracy’ documentary on Netflix will make you swear off fried chicken for life
…Or for a week, at least.
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UCSF IHPS's @joannespetz.bsky.social: education programs and national certifications for these advanced practice jobs “are pretty robust.” How 'physician-led' care team models tackle primary care's workforce problem www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/ho...
How 'physician-led' care team models tackle primary care's workforce problem
The rise of the team-based model for primary care delivery can be a practical and effective response to the mismatch between supply and demand for these services—so long as each clinician feels tha | ...
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Featuring UCSF IHPS Faculty: Marilyn Thomas, PhD, MPH, and Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS — findings in @jamanetworkopen.com on "Historically Black College or University Attendance and Cognition in US Black Adults". Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
FDA voted to let compounding pharmacies make BPC-157, TB-500 & other gray-market peptides despite agency scientists safety objections. Piatkowski, Ganson & @jasonmnagata.bsky.social flagged the youth-use risks in May, Lancet Child Adolesc Health. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
Opinion | The Coming Peptide Free-for-All
Welcome to the new Wild West of peptides.
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~12% of older US adults meet criteria for "ultra-processed food addiction" (Yale Food Addiction Scale). UCSF IHPS's Laura Schmidt, Addiction, 2026, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/..., on why that matters for the wave of UPF lawsuits @nytimes.com just covered. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
Opinion | This Teen Took on a $10 Trillion Industry. We Might All Be Healthier Because of Him.
A teenager’s lawsuit against the food industry shows us the path to a better food system.
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Featuring IHPS Faculty: Janne Boone-Heinonen, PhD, MPH — findings in Obesity: A Research Journal: "The Association of Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Postpartum Weight Retention: A Retrospective Cohort Study" by Young et al. Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
“The housing wealth is, in reality, the form of long-term care insurance that most people have," UCSF IHPS's @joannespetz.bsky.social via @sfchronicle.com Here’s what could really derail the Great Wealth Transfer — and how to prepare for it www.sfchronicle.com/personal-fin...
Here’s what could really derail the Great Wealth Transfer — and how to prepare for it
The cost of long-term care is perhaps the greatest Great Wealth Transfer wild card. Here are details on what these costs look like in the Bay Area — from premium life plan communities to in-home...
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UCSF IHPS faculty Pam Ling: FDA clears Zyn: Nicotine pouches may hook a new generation, says expert via Medical Xpres medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07...
FDA clears Zyn: Nicotine pouches may hook a new generation, says expert
The company can now market flavored pouches as less harmful than cigarettes, alarming health experts.
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UCSF IHPS faculty member Pam Ling: “Nicotine addiction is not trivial.” Are ZYN nicotine pouches safer than smoking? FDA weighs in via @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Some ZYN nicotine pouches can be sold as safer than cigarettes, FDA says
Twenty flavored ZYN products are included in the authorization, which says the pouches put users at lower risk for several health problems compared to smoking.
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Research from International Journal of Nursing Practice: "The Impact of Intra-Hospital Transfers on Patient Outcomes and/or Hospital Costs: A Scoping Review" — Doleman et al. Featuring IHPS Faculty: Joanne Spetz, PhD Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
UCSF IHPS's Anil Makam on a high-profile Nature Medicine retraction of a time-of-day immunotherapy trial based on his AAOx2 substack post detailing concerning issues. ‘Too Good to Be True’: A Chinese Study on Timing Cancer Therapy Is Retracted @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/b...
‘Too Good to Be True’: A Chinese Study on Timing Cancer Therapy Is Retracted
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Research from Arthritis Care & Research: "Effect of Implementing a Dashboard with or without a Best Practice Alert on HLA-B*58:01 Testing Rates among Allopurinol Users at VA Medical Center" — Fadairo-Azinge et al. Featuring IHPS Faculty: Gabriela Schmajuk, MD & Mary Whooley, MD
Public health & policy leaders: people with functional impairments who lack spousal support need dedicated caregiving plans during public health emergencies. Don't leave them behind. New work by UCSF IHPS's Lei Chen and @joannespetz.bsky.social. #caregiving www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/23...
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UCSF IHPS faculty Maria Raven via San Francisco Chronicle: What happens when an insurance company decides your health emergency wasn’t one? www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #EmergencyDepartment
When your insurance company decides you didn’t actually have a health emergency
Opinion: It’s called downcoding. And it’s a trend that has started to reemerge with the advent of AI, writes UCSF’s Maria Raven.
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Study from @JGIMJournal: "On Call or On Demand? Trends in Continuous Service Availability in California Emergency Departments, 2004–2024" — Spencer et al. Spotlighting IHPS Faculty & Staff: Christopher Toretsky, MPH & Renee Hsia, MD, MSc Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
UCSF IHPS faculty Elena Portacolone in San Francisco Chronicle Dementia is common for older adults living alone but many are not diagnosed, UCSF study finds www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic... #dementia #livingalone
Dementia is common for older adults living alone but many are not diagnosed, UCSF study finds
A team of UCSF scientists who interviewed more than 100 older adults found that roughly a third of them showed signs of mild cognitive impairment and were not diagnosed.
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UCSF IHPS faculty Laura Schmidt: UCSF study links tobacco industry to development of ultra-processed foods localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/06/u...
UCSF study links tobacco industry to development of ultra-processed foods - Local News Matters
A study from University of California, San Francisco released this week found Big Tobacco played a part in designing food that is marketed to children. A UCSF study found tobacco giant Philip Morris u...
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Study from Health Affairs: "Changes In Primary Care Physicians' Electronic Health Record Patterns After They Reduced Clinical Visit Volume" — Weinreb et al. Spotlighting IHPS Faculty: A Jay Holmgren, PhD, MS & Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA Read more here: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/...
"They used cigarette science to design these food products." UCSF IHPS's Laura Schmidt's study: How big tobacco helped shape the design of ultra-processed foods via @medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy medicalxpress.com/news/2026-06...
How big tobacco helped shape the design of ultra-processed foods
A new UC San Francisco study reveals how Philip Morris Companies Inc. used cigarette research, flavor engineering, and behavioral science to turn Lunchables into one of America's most successful ultra...
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UCSF IHPS faculty Laura Schmidt in @cnn.com: "We are not regulating enough chemical additives that go into ultraprocessed foods. We don’t have transparency into how these foods are created." www.cnn.com/2026/06/03/h...
Americans say they want strict regulations on ultraprocessed food. Will industry and regulators deliver? | CNN
Leading scientists and nonprofits who say they — and the public — are fed up with regulatory inaction back a new movement to spur reform on ultraprocessed foods.
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UCSF IHPS affiliated faculty Lisa Rotenstein in @usnews.com Why Female Doctors Are Walking Away From Medicine – and How to Keep Them health.usnews.com/health-care/...
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We see patients in severe opioid withdrawal from products sold legally as herbal supplements. 7-OH, the active ingredient, is a semisynthetic opioid 13xmore potent than morphine. Gas stations & vape shops have become dangerous, unregulated pharmacies. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
When An Herbal Supplement Becomes A Potent Opioid: The Emerging Threat Of Concentrated Kratom Derivatives | Health Affairs Forefront
The supply of high-potency opioids is expanding through products sold legally as herbal supplements in gas stations, vape shops, and convenience stores. The most prominent is 7-hydroxymitragynine, als...
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"What we have is probably too many in certain markets and too few in others," UCSF IHPS faculty, Anil Makam, MD, MAS, in Axios www.axios.com/2026/04/27/h...
Hospitals that take the sickest patients are closing
The industry says it's unable to discharge certain patients who need long-term intensive care.
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Please join us for IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds today, May 6, 2026, from 12:00–1:00 PM, featuring Ziad Obermeyer, MD, MPhil.
We're delighted to welcome Emerging Scholar, Austin Kilaru, MD, MSHP, tomorrow, April 29, 2026, from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM. Please feel free to reach out to Beth Thew at beth.thew@ucsf.edu for the Zoom link.
Join us tomorrow, April 9th from 12:00–1:00 PM for a book talk with David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, as he discusses WHIPLASH: From the Battle for Obamacare to the War on Science. We hope to see you there!
