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FCM's Abbey Cliffe named UCSF Clinical Research Coordinator of the Year

FCM's Abbey Cliffe has been named UCSF’s 2022 Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) of the Year.

FCM's Shira Shavit and Hoa Su receive UCSF Founders Day Awards

UCSF Family and Community Medicine's Shira Shavit, MD, and Hoa Su, MPH, have been named recipients of UCSF’s 2022 Founders Day Awards. Shira is the Executive Director of The Transitions Clinic Network, a UCSF and San Francisco Public Health Foundation program that addresses the both health and...

Study shows family medicine physicians face many barriers to providing medical abortions

Doctors cite resistance from institutions and government restrictions that block patients from accessing abortion pills  Source: UC Davis Health

School segregation harms Black children’s health, well-being

Black youth who attend racially segregated schools are more likely to have behavior problems and to drink alcohol than Black youth in less segregated schools, according to a UC San Francisco study published in Pediatrics.

Race-based prescribing for Black people with high blood pressure shows no benefit

Study finds established guidelines may limit black patients from receiving the full range of appropriate medications for hypertension