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Unrelenting stress changes our bodies, affects our health
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Campus Event Helps Veterans Transition to Life at UCSF
Members of the UC San Francisco military veterans community participated Oct. 3 in a seminar designed to help our student veterans and military service members navigate UCSF and provide them with a welcoming space.
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UCSF Ebola Preparedness Harkens Back To Early Days Of AIDS
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UCSF’s New Mission Bay Hospital Facilities State-of-the-Art
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Antiretroviral Therapy Benefits HIV-infected Stimulant Users, UCSF Study Shows
New clinical research from UCSF shows that 341 HIV-infected men who reported using stimulants such as methamphetamine or cocaine derived life-saving benefits from being on antiretroviral therapy that were comparable to those of HIV-infected men who do not use stimulants.
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New Thinking in the Field of Genetic Prion Diseases
Overturning an assumption in the field of genetic prion diseases, it turns out that disease does not appear at younger ages with each succeeding generation, according to a paper published on October 2 in the American Journal of Human Genetics by Michael Geschwind, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology with UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center, and colleagues.
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UCSF, Community Come Together for Mission Bay Block Party 8
The first year’s Block Party attracted close to a thousand people. Every year, it has grown by at least several hundred attendees. This year’s event held on Oct. 8 drew 4,000 people from UCSF and the surrounding Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
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UCSF Cancer Patients Testing Scalp-Cooling Cap That Can Prevent Chemotherapy Hair Loss
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UCSF opens $100 million+ global health complex, also houses chancellor's office
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Healing Bones, Mending Lives Globally at Annual UCSF International Trauma Course
Fifty-one surgeons from 18 developing countries participated in the fifth annual UC San Francisco Surgical Management and Reconstructive Training (SMART) Course at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH). Attendees learned about limb salvage and rotational flap procedures.
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UCSF, UC Berkeley Scientists Join Forces in New Glenn Center for Aging Research
Researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have teamed up to create an innovative, integrated center for research on neurodegenerative diseases.
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New wave of brain research aims to understanding every function
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Organ transplant: Antigen linked to recipients’ disorder
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$6.25 Million Grant for the Memory and Aging Center
Adam Boxer, MD, PhD, and Howie Rosen, MD, of the Memory and Aging Center (MAC), have won a $6.25 million grant to study Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD) through the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN), which is led by National Institute’s of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
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UCSF-Fresno offers ‘mini-med’ school for the public
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Health agency moving to skid row to aid homeless
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Woman-Focused Approach to Care Defines New Hospital
The new UCSF Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital contains state of the art facilities, but the real heart of the hospital stems from its women-centered approach to caring for its patients.
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Six UCSF Researchers Win NIH High-Risk, High-Reward Grants
UC San Francisco researchers received five awards announced this week by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for high-risk, high-reward scientific research projects.
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Tseng Receives Funding to Study HIV/AIDS, Sudden Cardiac Death
Zian H. Tseng, MD, MAS, associate professor of medicine in residence in the Cardiology Division and Cardiac Electrophysiology Service at UC San Francisco, received a four-year $2.14 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand on his research of people with HIV/AIDS and their increased risk of sudden cardiac death.
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UCSF researchers find Kershaw’s brain works like a monkey’s
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Berkeley Officials Outspent but Optimistic in Battle Over Soda Tax
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Gut instinct brings Second Genome, Mayo together in drug research deal
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Antigen linked to recipients’ disorder
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UCSF Symposium On Building Better Global Health Systems
The importance of building more effective global health care systems, as well as relying on a more diverse, local pool of talent were oft-repeated themes of UCSF’s sold-out symposium, “The Science of Global Health: What's Next,” on Oct. 2.
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Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Doesn’t Have Impact
Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that a nurse-led intervention program designed to reduce readmissions among ethnically and linguistically diverse older patients did not improve 30-day hospital readmission rates.
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Asthma Risk Varies with Ethnic Ancestry Among Latinos, UCSF Team Finds
Native American ancestry is associated with a lower asthma risk, but African ancestry is associated with a higher risk, according to the largest-ever study of how genetic variation influences asthma risk in Latinos, in whom both African and Native American ancestry is common.
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Giving Doctors Guidance on Drugs to Prevent H.I.V.
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UCSF at Dreamforce 2014: Revolutionary Research Powered By Technology
Video games that make you smarter. A chip that can identify mysterious illnesses in hours. These are some of the topics top UCSF scientists will discuss at this year’s free UCSF Dreamforce track on Oct. 15.
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California strikes a blow for research open access -- but pulls its punch