Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Nuclear Medicine

05/25/2023

Scientists discovered a correlation between fungi and 35 different types of cancer, furthering insight about the disease.

04/07/2022

Knowing the right thing to do is not hard. Dealing with the consequences of doing the right thing is the hard part. So is living with the consequences of not doing the right thing.

03/31/2022

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After the FDA’s approval of Pluvicto (177Lu-PSMA-617), a radiopharmaceutical therapy to treat metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), ...

03/31/2022

A patient wrote this lovely poem for us ! Thank you! Darla

03/25/2022

A study published in the discovered that F-18 FDG-PET imaging was able to reveal a metabolic pattern, which may help indicate the presence of long COVID-19.

02/04/2022

Beginning in early spring, beneficiaries of original Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans will be eligible to receive free over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, according to CMS.

This change comes after the Biden administration ruled that private insurers must cover the cost of eight at-home rapid COVID-19 tests per month for their members while the U.S. is under an official public health emergency. The ruling did not initially apply to Medicare beneficiaries since services covered under the Medicare program are detailed in federal law and generally exclude over-the-counter products, according to reporting by Kaiser Health News.

01/31/2022

Coffee, Smoking and Aspirin Influence Parkinson's Disease Onset
Susan Kreimer

November 24, 2021
Patients who consumed coffee regularly had a later age at onset of PD — 61.9 years compared to 59.4 years for those who did not drink coffee. There was also a small possible coffee dosage effect from the number of cups consumed per week, as well as a positive correlation with longer coffee-drinking duration. In addition, coffee drinking was associated with less severe motor scores.

In evaluating the effect of anti-inflammatory medication on age at onset of PD, aspirin showed the most significant difference. Individuals were considered aspirin users if they took at least two pills per week over a minimum of 6 months.

Those who reported aspirin use had a 5-year later age at onset — 64.0 years compared to 59.1 years for patients who did not take aspirin. However, aspirin's effect lessened as an independent predictor of PD onset after accounting for the comorbidities of heart disease and arthritis.

12/29/2021

Don’t just “hear” someone talk. LISTEN.

Don’t just listen for words. LISTEN FOR NEEDS.

People stick around when their needs for peace, autonomy, and meaning are met. Krister

12/29/2021

To get Radiology “films” email request to
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Include name, medical record number, and where you want the records sent or if you will pick them up.
Office is at 350 St. Joseph’s Rm 023
Phone: 415-833-4995

12/29/2021

To get medical records email request to:
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Include name, medical record number, and where you want the records sent or if you will pick them up.
Office is at 2238 Geary 7th floor
Phone: 415-833-3778

12/27/2021

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” Isaac Newton