Endocrine Society Awards Walter L. Miller Its Lifetime Achievement Award
Walter L. Miller, distinguished professor emeritus and former chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCSF, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the Endocrine Society.
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Sudden Neurological Death Misclassified, Underestimated
UCSF researchers have devised a new term, “sudden neurological death,” to describe apparent sudden cardiac deaths that actually were due to neurological causes.
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UCSF Responds to Concerns About Safety and Security After Series of Town Halls
During National Campus Safety Awareness Month, UCSF reminds faculty, staff, students and trainees that it’s incumbent on everyone to be vigilant and to be informed about what’s happening during an emergency situation.
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Jennifer Rosko: Building an Environment for Students to Thrive
Jennifer Rosko, the director of Student Involvement and Programs at UCSF, has worked to create the structure and atmosphere for students to foster interprofessional relationships, thrive and be successful.
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San Francisco, Oakland Join Forces to Support Children with Cancer
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are bringing together the cities of San Francisco and Oakland this week, as well as each city’s baseball team, to raise awareness of pediatric cancer.
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UCSF Fresno Launches Two New Training Programs
UCSF Fresno recently launched two new training programs: the UCSF Fresno Hematology/Oncology Fellowship and the UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program.
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UCSF to Offer Free Flu Shots as Influenza Season Nears
UCSF will be holding free drop-in flu shot clinics for its employees, students and volunteers starting Monday, Sept. 19.
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Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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How the sugar industry has distorted health science for more than 50 years
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UCSF's Bruce Alberts Wins Lasker-Koshland Award for Lifetime of Research, Science Advocacy
UCSF biochemist Bruce Alberts has received the 2016 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, one of the highest honors in biomedicine.
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Bruce Alberts on Why Biomedical Research Needs Rescuing
Bruce Alberts and a group of prominent scientists have begun the Rescuing Biomedical Research initiative to fix what they see as systemic flaws in the current biomedical research enterprise.
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Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies
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Richard Feachem to Receive Hewitt Award from Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine will present the Richard T. Hewitt Award for distinguished achievement in the improvement of human health to Richard Feachem, director of the Global Health Group at the UCSF Global Health Sciences
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Buster Posey to Visit UCSF Patients in Honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
San Francisco Giants’ catcher Buster Posey will be meeting with patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco this week, in honor of National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.
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Sugar Papers Reveal Industry Role in Shifting National Heart Disease Focus to Saturated Fat
A newly discovered cache of industry documents revealed that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and to downplay evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.
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Newborn Gut Microbiome Predicts Later Allergy and Asthma, Study Finds
Gut microbes present in some one-month-old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergic reactions by age two and asthma by age four.
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UCSF’s Resource Allocation Program Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2016 Cycle
UCSF's Resource Allocation Program, which offers a single online application process for a wide variety of intramural funding opportunities, is now inviting applications for the fall 2016 cycle.
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Stand Up To Cancer Gives Bay Area Pancreatic Cancer Patient Hope
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UCSF Ranks as One of the Healthiest Employers in the Bay Area
UCSF has ranked as one of the healthiest employers in the Bay Area, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
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Meet the 2016 Healthiest Employers in the Greater Bay Area
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U.S. hospital palliative-care teams suffer staffing gaps
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Cancer Moonshot Expert Panel, Including UCSF Researchers, Delivers 10 Recommendations
Ten recommendations from a Blue Ribbon Panel of scientific experts, cancer leaders and patient advocates – including two UCSF researchers – have been approved to help guide the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study
A new UC San Francisco study challenges the most influential textbook explanation of how the mammalian brain detects when the body is becoming too warm, and how it then orchestrates the myriad responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature.
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Hospital ORs may waste millions a year in disposable medical supplies
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Raising an alarm, doctors fight to yank hospital ICUs into the modern era
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Sutro Stewards Celebrate 10 Years of Caring for Mount Sutro Reserve
After 10 years and a number of local awards, the nonprofit Sutro Stewards remains strong in its mission to enhance and provide public access to Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve.
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Researchers Confront an Epidemic of Loneliness
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NASA's DNA Sequencing in Space is a Success, UCSF Researchers Confirm
Two hundred miles above Earth, NASA has conducted the first genome sequencing in space, and researchers at UCSF helped analyze the data sent back from the International Space Station and confirm that the sequencing was a success.
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UCSF Tops All Fundraising Teams for AIDS Walk San Francisco 2016
Craig Miller, founder and senior organizer of AIDS Walk San Francisco, joined UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood and others at a reception to congratulate the UCSF community for raising $170,000 to support HIV-related programs and services.
