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Jerry Brown urged to return tobacco company money given to CA ballot measure
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Genetic Variant Protects Some Latina Women from Breast Cancer
An international research collaboration led by UCSF researchers has identified a genetic variant common in Latina women that protects against breast cancer.
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How A 'Small But Mighty' Team Of Googlers Is Using Maps To Save People And The Planet
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Indiana push to cut ER visits sees mixed results
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UCSF Study Links Soda To Premature Aging, Disease, Early Death
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More Than 60 Gather for First ABOG Mentee Reunion
More than 60 mentees attended the first ABOG (Academic Business Officers Group) mentorship alumni reunion at UC San Francisco on Sept. 4 at the Millberry Union Conference Center. Mentees from 1991 to present listened to John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, address the group.
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Slow and steady may not win the weight-loss race
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Bay Area Scientists Work On Test To Find Ebola Virus Early
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Staff Prepare for Debut of New Mission Bay Hospitals
The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay held a “Day in the Life” exercise to prepare staff for the Feb. 1 opening day of the three hospitals.
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UCSF, Centre for Drug Research and Development Sign Drug Development Agreement
UCSF and The Centre for Drug Research and Development have announced a collaborative affiliation to identify potential medications and develop them to the stage where they are commercially attractive to private sector partners.
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Sugared Soda Consumption, Cell Aging Associated in New Study
Sugar-sweetened soda consumption might promote disease independently from its role in obesity, according to UC San Francisco researchers who found in a new study that drinking sugary drinks was associated with cell aging.
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For Ebola Health Workers, Risks and Duty Collide
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Experts fault changing U.S. guidelines on Ebola protective gear
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More California Residents Die From Smoking Than AIDS, Study Says
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Human Cancer Prognosis Is Related to Newly Identified Immune Cell
A newly discovered population of immune cells in tumors is associated with less severe cancer outcomes in humans, and may have therapeutic potential, according to a new UCSF study.
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Breast cancer awareness month offers little when disease has spread
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San Francisco to get first medical helipad in decades
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UC San Francisco Relaunches ‘Mission in a Minute’
After a six-month hiatus, UC San Francisco’s popular “Mission in a Minute” series has returned. Created as a way for researchers, clinicians, educators and others to communicate directly with their respective audience, the one-minute video series showcases the work they are doing at UCSF, its significance and how it relates to the overall mission at UCSF.
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UCSF Team Learns More About Why Airway Closes Up During Asthma Attacks
The molecular regulation of smooth-muscle contraction is an important determinant of airway responses during an acute asthmatic attack. In acute asthma, various triggers, including viral illnesses and aeroallergens, can cause acute narrowing of the airways leading to a life-threatening respiratory crisis and sometimes death.
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Ebola scare has Bay Area asking: How at risk are we?
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Immune Cells May Help Treat Muscular Dystrophy, UCSF-Led Team Finds
A scientific team led by UCSF researchers found that regulatory T cells, a specialized subset of immune cells, suppress inflammation and muscle injury in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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UCSF Medical Center Earns Perfect Score for Health Care Equality
UCSF Medical Center has become the only U.S. institution to receive a perfect score on the national LGBT Healthcare Equality Index for seven consecutive years.
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$18 Billion Tobacco Toll in California
Smoking took an $18.1 billion toll in California – $487 for each resident – and was responsible for more than one in seven deaths in the state, according to the first comprehensive analysis in more than a decade on the financial and health impacts of tobacco.
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UCSF Team Learns More About Why Airway Closes Up During Asthma Attacks
The molecular regulation of smooth-muscle contraction is an important determinant of airway responses during an acute asthmatic attack. In acute asthma, various triggers, including viral illnesses and aeroallergens, can cause acute narrowing of the airways leading to a life-threatening respiratory crisis and sometimes death.
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Ronald McDonald House expanding in San Francisco
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Study: Tobacco use toll drops in California, but smoking still more deadly than AIDS
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New Miniature Device Monitors Heart Failure Patients Remotely
UCSF is the first medical center in the western United States to offer the miniature wireless CardioMEMS HF System implant, which enables heart patients to be monitored daily in the comfort of their own home.
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NIH Launches UCSF Developed Course for Life Science Entrepreneurs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a pilot program to help life science entrepreneurs commercialize their technology, based on a course developed at UC San Francisco. The Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF and Steve Blank, architect of the Lean LaunchPad framework, first taught the course last fall. UCSF and Blank adopted the Lean LaunchPad methodology to be applicable for life science and healthcare ventures.
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Ethnicity could have role in susceptibility to asthma