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In the first in a series of posts on bioethical issues in health care, Marsha Michie of the UCSF Bioethics team, explores some of the concerns raised by the emergence of noninvasive prenatal testing.

With alarm fatigue causing concerns across the country, an interdisciplinary research team races to create a super alarm that would make optimal use of the abundance of clinical data available today.

Alarm safety is a significant problem with no easy solutions. UCSF Medical Center and UCSF San Francisco School of Nursing are approaching it as a team effort.

UCSF global health scholar Jyu-Lin Chen has been named the School of Nursing’s first Presidential Chair in Global Health Nursing.

The UCSF School of Nursing has created two new fellowships to support researchers exploring ECG monitoring.

Yoshimi Fukuoka and her colleagues explore whether combining behavior science, big data, advanced analytics and mHealth applications can help people achieve the type of behavior change that can prevent or ease the burden of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other chronic illnesses.

Mobile diet and exercise apps are all the rage. Nurse scientist Yoshimi Fukuoka offers one model for shaping these devices so they help individuals make lasting lifestyle changes for healthier lives.

UCSF’s Office of Population Health and Accountable Care is leading a series of experiments to help UCSF Health adapt to a period of truly disruptive health care change.

Medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman looks at how we experience and make decisions about aging and end-of-life care.

Policy experts help point to better ways for delivering care to patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia.

Nonprescribing nurses have largely been invisible in the discussion about the effects of industry marketing to clinicians. A new study makes the case for more scrutiny.

Nurse practitioner and PhD candidate Mary Hunter’s doctoral research examines the reasons women use long-term menopausal hormone therapy despite the risks and unknowns.