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Todd James presented at the AGS Annual Meeting
Todd James, MD presented with the UCSF Emergency Department team first quarter results on a novel rapid response team in the Emergency Department, Code DICE, at the AGS Annual Meeting. This new team incorporates health professionals and environmental strategies to address behaviors of dementia and delirium. No adverse patient events and no staff injuries occurred during the time period.
SF’s new HIV cases hit record low, but disparities widening among groups
Aggressive efforts to end transmission of HIV are paying off in San Francisco, where public health officials are reporting record-low new cases, and the city is far outpacing national trends that show much narrower declines, reports Erin Allday of the San Francisco Chronicle. The story highlights the efforts of Getting to Zero and Ward 86, UCSF's HIV clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. Read the full story.