Binge Drinking May Quickly Lead to Liver Damage
Alcohol consumed during just seven weeks of intermittent binge drinking harms the liver in ways that more moderate daily drinking does not.
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UCSF Launches Contest to Spruce Up Areas on Campus
Do you know an area of campus that could use a little sprucing up, maybe some deep cleaning, new carpet, paint, or landscaping?
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Study Explores How to Tell Children They Have HIV
There are an estimated 150,000 HIV-infected children in Uganda, and studies indicate less than a third of children under the age of 15 know they are infected.
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Official Abortion Rate Declined in Texas After Law Restricted Access to Clinics, UCSF-UT Study Finds
In Texas, increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.
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UCSF, Intel Join Forces to Develop Deep Learning Analytics for Health Care
UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deploy and validate a deep learning analytics platform designed to improve care.
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The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming — Slowly
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Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses Slip Between Cracks in HIV Testing
People with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with psychosis may be up to 15 more likely than the general population to be HIV positive, but are only marginally more likely to be tested for the virus.
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Nursing Research Seeks to Bridge Breastfeeding Disparity for African American Moms
Ifeyinwa Asiodu, an assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing, is working to close the gap in breastfeeding rates between African-American babies and others in the U.S.
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Three-Parent Babies: The Science of Replacing Mitochondrial DNA and What Remains Unknown
Mitochondrial replacement therapy now has been used in humans to conceive a “three-parent baby” to prevent inherited mitochondrial disorders, but there remain questions about the effectiveness of the process.
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UCSF gets $500 million from single donor
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Major gift boosts Bay Area’s status as hothouse of biomedical innovation
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‘Transformative’ donation to UCSF: $500 million
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$500 million game-changer: UCSF given historic gift
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Jeffrey Kang, MD ’81, MPH: A focus on service
Jeffrey Kang, MD ’81, MPH, saw that medicine is a service fueled by altruism and passion, but it also has to operate as a business.
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The Quest by Parents and Scientists to End Pediatric Epilepsy
Children with severe cases of epilepsy such as Dravet syndrome are finding new and unexpected cures thanks to determined pediatricians and translational research at UCSF.
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How Can We Better Prevent Tooth Decay?
School of Dentistry Dean John Featherstone, PhD, explains his new philosophy of preventive dentistry.
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Exploring the Epigenetics of Ethnicity
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Science in Focus: Rebuilding the Salivary Gland After Radiation
UCSF researchers are working to figure out how mouse stem cells divide and differentiate into acinar cells to rebuild the salivary gland after an injury. Such research could apply to patients who often lose the ability to produce saliva after undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancers.
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Access to Free Drinking Water in SF Neighborhoods Driven by New Partnership
Over the next year, 19 new public water stations will be installed across San Francisco, thanks to a collaboration involving the City and County of San Francisco, community groups, and UCSF Health.
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Largest-Ever Gift to UCSF Honors Philanthropist Helen Diller
To honor and build on a lifetime of giving and charitable service by the late Helen Diller, the Helen Diller Foundation has granted $500 million to UCSF, the largest single donation in UCSF’s history and one of the largest ever to a U.S. university.
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Cultural Differences May Leave Their Mark on DNA
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group’s shared culture and environment, rather than its common genetic ancestry.
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UCSF, Pfizer Renew Research Collaboration, Citing Progress in Drug Discovery Research
UC San Francisco and Pfizer Inc.’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation have renewed an agreement to identify and develop biologic compounds against both known and novel targets.
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Jeff Sheehy, of UCSF AIDS Research Institute, Appointed as San Francisco Supervisor
Jeff Sheehy, the longtime director of communications at UC San Francisco’s Aids Research Institute, has been appointed by San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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UCSF Medical Student and Immigrant Rights Advocate Featured on Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ List
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Former Senior Vice Chancellor Steve Barclay, Key Financial Architect of Mission Bay Campus, Dies
Stephen J. Barclay, the former senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration who guided UCSF through state budget cutbacks as well as the planning of the Mission Bay campus, has died. He was 70.
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Mayor to make history by appointing SF’s first openly HIV-positive supervisor
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Science in Focus: Using Light to Make Single Cells Self-Destruct
Researchers at UCSF have developed a new optogenetic tool that can be used to completely eliminate single cells from brain networks in animals. The researchers believe the new tool will enable exquisitely precise experiments to help researchers understand how each cell contributes to the whole.
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How Artificial Intelligence Techniques Are Bringing Efficiency to the Hunt for New Drugs
Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu are using artificial intelligence to spot and label potential medical uses for biological compounds.
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One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die