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Pediatricians Mmay Skip Kids' Blood Pressure Checks
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UCSF Chancellor to Deliver 2012 State of the University Address
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann deliver her annual State of the University Address on September 25.</p>
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Hope on the Horizon for Asthma Sufferers
A new study by a UCSF-led research team has found a way to help asthma sufferers by impeding the two most significant biological responses that lead to an asthma attack.
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International Doctors Get Surgical Training in SF
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Before You Vote, Meet State and City Candidates at UCSF-Sponsored Forums
<p>With just over a month until the November election, UCSF is co-sponsoring a series of candidate forums for the California Assembly, California Senate and San Francisco Board of Supervisors.</p>
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Salesforce.com Foundation Pledges $10 Million to District 10
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Are ADHD Medications Overprescribed?
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Simple Tool May Help Evaluate Risk for Violence Among Patients with Mental Illness
Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make a risk assessment, according to a recent study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco.
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UCSF Installs WarnMe Emergency Alert Electronic Display Boards
<p>If there is an imminent threat to your life or safety from a hazardous material spill, fire, violent protests or an active shooter on campus, UCSF Police and its Homeland Security Emergency Management Division will send an emergency alert to any cell phone, email, pager or text messaging address registered in UCSF's WarnMe mass notification system.</p>
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Yosemite Extends Hantavirus Warning; 9th Infection Confirmed
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Scientists Develop Technique to Track Dormant AIDS Virus Concealed in Cells
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have devised a method to track HIV inside individual cells — an important development for understanding “HIV latency" when the virus goes dormant after the patient begins antiretroviral treatment.
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Will We Be the First Martians?
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UCSF Study of ICU Errors Wins $2.1M Foundation Grant
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Microbes Benefit More than Just the Gut
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Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits
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Children's Hospital Oakland Eyes Challenges, Opportunities as It Turns 100
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City Chooses to Continue Fluoridation
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Gladstone Scientists Map Genomic Blueprint of the Heart
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have revealed the precise order and timing of hundreds of genetic “switches” required to construct a fully functional heart from embryonic heart cells — providing new clues into the genetic basis for some forms of congenital heart disease.
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The Gut and Its Bacteria a Growing Focus of Research
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Scientists Map Genetic 'Blueprint' of Heart
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Stock Up on Food and Water in Case Disaster Strikes
<p>When disaster strikes, whether it is Hurricane Katrina or flooding in the Midwest, one of the most striking media images we see are the long lines of people waiting for water, food, and shelter. And in almost every instance, it appears those supplies don’t arrive soon enough.</p>
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Inferior Lizard Tails Weaken Hopes of Regrowing Limbs
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Tracking Glaucoma among Asian Ethnicities
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UC Regents Examine Strategies to Grapple With Growing Budget Deficit
<p>The University of California Board of Regents, in a daylong retreat on Sept. 12, looked at dozens of proposals for addressing the University's growing budget deficit, from academic strategies to changes in employee health and welfare benefits.</p>
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COPD Patients with Low "Health Literacy" Fare Worse
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What Causes Sinus Infections?
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UC Releases Final Report on Protests and Policing
<p>A final report containing 49 recommendations for handling demonstrations, civil disobedience and free-speech issues related to protests throughout the 10 campuses of the UC system was released today (Sept. 13.)</p>
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NIH Fosters High-Risk, High-Reward Innovation at UCSF
<p>Biomedical researchers at UCSF have won five of 51 prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator awards for high-risk, high-reward research, each receiving up to $1.5 million over five years.</p>
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Parents Prefer Some, Often Less-Effective Birth Control Methods for Teens