Diane Sklar, MD ’79: Providing care around the globe
Diana Sklar, MD ’79, has completed more than 20 medical missions to far-off destinations during her 30-year career.
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Your Body on Sugar
How too much sugar can make you sick.
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Faculty Mentors Honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards
Faculty members Eliseo Pérez-Stable and Zena Werb were honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award.
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Researchers Receive Nearly $3M from Allen Family Foundation to Study Alzheimer’s Disease
Two groups of UCSF researchers have been awarded Allen Distinguished Investigator grants of more than $1 million each for Alzheimer’s disease research.
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Laurel Heights Volunteer Team Boost Staff Morale Through Events And Activities
Activities organized by Campus Life Services' Arts & Events volunteers are the primary way to provide fun activities and boost staff morale in the workplace.
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Vaginal Douches May Expose Women to Harmful Phthalate Chemicals
Women who use feminine care products called douches may increase their exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates.
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Min Cho: Blood Cell Research Grows Personal
Min Cho’s work in a UCSF lab that researches protein translational mechanisms in blood cancers was just an abstract, albeit important, concept to him – until he was diagnosed with a rare blood disease.
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Evidence-based Health Equity Research Receives $9 Million In Funding
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Postmenopausal Women With Depression or Urinary Incontinence Experience Vaginal Symptoms Affecting Daily Life
Special efforts should be made to identify and treat depression and urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women with vaginal symptoms, according to UC San Francisco researchers.
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UCSF Medical Center Named One of 2015’s 'Most Wired' Hospitals
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco have been named one of HealthCare’s Most Wired™ for 2015, in recognition of the focus on security and patient engagement through information technology.
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IT Rolls Out New VPN for Remote Access Users
Virtual Private Networks (VPN) users can now enjoy the benefits of a faster and more reliable tool with a new VPN, known as Junos Pulse,
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Study Finds Donor Funds Fall Short for Key Global Health Functions
A new analysis estimates that $22 billion was spent on global health aid in 2013, yet only a fifth of this went toward such global imperatives as research on diseases that disproportionally affect the poor, outbreak preparedness and global health leadership.
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Distance Doesn't Make the Heart Grow Stronger for 50 Million Americans
Despite a modest upswing in the number of hospitals equipped to perform angioplasty, a life-saving procedure for heart disease that should be carried out promptly, nearly 50 million residents of the continental United States face travel times of more than one hour to reach them, according to a new study.
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UCSF Warms Up for AIDS Walk San Francisco 2015
Teams rally for the annual AIDS Walk event on July 19.
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Geri Ehle: Supporting the Next Generation of Physician Scientists
In August 2014, Geri Ehle became the coordinator for UCSF’s medical scientist training program, where she supports some of the brightest students in the country as they train to become future medical leaders. Her charge is to ensure students in the program are well cared for socially, emotionally and academically during their long and arduous eight years of study.
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Work Begins on Modernizing the UCSF Parnassus Campus
Construction at the UCSF Parnassus campus will address structural issues and modernize buildings.
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Lamorna Brown Swigart: Circling the Bay for Breast Cancer
Lamorna Brown Swigart and Malinda Walker tackled fundraising for breast cancer at the personal level by riding around the San Francisco Bay and blogging at We Go for Good.
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Extra Heartbeats Could Be Modifiable Risk Factor for Congestive Heart Failure
Common extra heartbeats known as premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) may be a modifiable risk factor for congestive heart failure and death.
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Age-Related Cognitive Decline Tied to Immune-System Molecule
A blood-borne molecule that increases in abundance as we age blocks regeneration of brain cells and promotes cognitive decline, suggests a new study.
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UCSF Reports Laptop Burglary in Faculty Office
UCSF is alerting individuals about a burglary involving an unencrypted laptop belonging to a faculty member in the Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia Service that contained some personal, research and health information.
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Catching Dreams
The towering steel sculpture “suggests the balance of hard work and aspiration that enables dreams to take flight,” according to its creator, renowned artist Mark di Suvero.
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Mission: Migration
Marvel at the complexities of the move to UCSF’s new medical center.
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Acute Kidney Injury Linked to Increased Risk of High Blood Pressure
Hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury were 22 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure within two years than patients who did not experience AKI, according to a study by UCSF and Kaiser Permanente.
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David Robb: Researching treatment solutions for HIV/AIDS
At the height of the AIDS epidemic, David Robb made a career change from being a film student and San Francisco restaurant employee to working in non-profit and research for HIV/AIDS.
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UCSF Neuroscientist Named 2015 Blavatnik Laureate in Life Sciences
Edward F. Chang, a UCSF physician-scientist whose seminal research has provided deep insights into how speech and language are processed in the human brain, has been named the 2015 Blavatnik Laureate in the Life Sciences.
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Marcel Alavi: Promoting Diversity by Taking Pride to the Next Level
Marcel Alavi and his fellow memoirs of the UCSF Pride Committee worked together with the UCSF LGBT Resource Center to create a visible presence for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender (LGBT) campus and medical center community by marching in the 2015 SF Pride Celebration.
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UCSF Eyeing Dogpatch For Over 1,000 Student Housing Units
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UC Measures To Ensure Inclusive Campuses For LGBT Community
UC enacts measures to ensure campus environments are inclusive for LGBT students, faculty and staff.
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UCSF Green Champions Recognized at 2015 Sustainability Award Ceremony
Annual awards recognize the many accomplishments of individuals and teams at UCSF around sustainability.
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Three Simple Rules Govern Complex Brain Circuit in Fly
Think the nest of cables under your desk is bad? Try keeping the trillions of connections crisscrossing your brain organized and free of tangles. A new UCSF study reveals this seemingly intractable job may be simpler than it appears.
