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Give to UCSFUCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday, May 1, to present at a briefing called “Innovations in Kidney Research: New Hope for Patients.”
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco one of a very few academic medical centers to offer acupuncture to both inpatients and outpatients to manage pain.
New pharmaceuticals to fight autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis, may be identified more effectively by adding genome analysis to standard drug screening, according to a new study by a research team led by UC San Francisco and Harvard researchers.
What if the Supreme Court had ruled this past week that states have the constitutional right to require that their public universities consider only SAT scores when making admissions decisions?
Nine interns graduated this month from the sixth cycle of the EXCEL program, UCSF’s flagship workforce development program.
Medical students chose the neurobiologist Igor Mitrovic to give the 2014 “Last Lecture,” the annual campus rite in which a faculty member is asked to deliver the lecture he’d give if it were his last.
Over the past 18 months, physicians in California have observed on rare occasions what may be a new disease, one in which patients, usually children, quickly and permanently lose muscle function in an arm or leg.
New research out of UCSF is the first to demonstrate that highly stressed people who eat a lot of high-fat, high-sugar food are more prone to health risks than low-stress people who eat the same amount.
Scientists studying brain diseases may need to look beyond nerve cells and start paying attention to the star-shaped cells known as “astrocytes,” because they play specialized roles in the development and maintenance of nerve circuits and may contribute to a wide range of disorders, according to a new study by UCSF researchers.
A lecture about Magnetic Resonance Imaging and its new applications will occur on May 1. William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, professor and chair of UC San Diego’s Department of Radiology and an alumnus of UCSF, will return to campus as the 2014 Margulis Alumnus Lecturer.
An ancient form of meditation and exercise could help women who suffer from urinary incontinence, according to a new study from UC San Francisco.