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It’s known that a difficult childhood can lead to a host of health issues as a young or midlife adult, but now, for the first time, researchers at UC San Franciso have linked adverse experiences early in life to lifelong health consequences. Read further on Dynamite News:

HLA-B*15:01 variant helps T cells identify and attack the virus, offering potential for updated vaccines.

After sifting through 7.8million genetic variants, one was found to be associated with faster disease progression

The global study included data from more than 22,000 people with MS.

Researchers found that two regions of the brain produce brain waves associated with chronic pain. Each participant in their study had a unique signature for pain.

Diagnosed with a shingles infection in late February, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now hospitalized and undergoing treatment at a San Francisco hospital.

UC's health system is renewing contracts with hundreds of outside clinics — many with religious affiliations

It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical facility in Northern California. Only now has the institution begun reckoning with its dark history of medical experimentation on inmates.

The University of California, San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in the 1960s and '70s on prisoners, some of whom were mentally ill. In many cases, there was no record that the prisoners had provided informed consent.