The central feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes referred to as "Obamacare", is set to be implemented beginning January 1, 2014. On that date millions of Americans will gain access to insurance coverage either through an expansion of the Medicaid program or by new opportunities to purchase private health insurance through a Marketplace Exchange. In California, the Medicaid program is called Medi-Cal and the new Marketplace Exchange is called Covered California.
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Men with low-grade prostate cancer are increasingly opting for active surveillance to manage their disease and diagnostic imaging tests may play an important role in this setting.
It was a quiet morning on Saturday, July 6. Radiology resident Kim Kallianos, MD, was handling routine cases at San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center (SFGH) during her first day of call as a third-year resident.
The Department of Radiology’s Benjamin Yeh, MD, and Yanjun Fu, PhD, have been named the top winners for the Spring 2013 Catalyst Awards, a major awards program at UC San Francisco.
More clinics are billing thermography as a better option for detecting breast cancer. The problem is, however, this is simply not true. NBC news investigates.
UCSF’s Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research Group, the Department of Radiology’s Neuroradiology Section, and the Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging are partnering to advance the state of the art for imaging of multiple sclerosis.