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Hair Samples from Infants Show Exposure to Anti-HIV Drugs in the Womb and During Breast-feeding
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Makerere University in Uganda have used hair and blood samples from three-month old infants born to HIV-positive mothers to measure the uninfected babies’ exposure — both in the womb and from breast-feeding — to antiretroviral medications their mothers were taking. The results, they said, are surprising.
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Cravings Could Be Defeated with Two Little Words
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Vanity Fair Nominates: Dr. Diane Havlir
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Scientists Dare to Use the C-Word -- Cure -- As AIDS Meeting Sets to Open in Washington
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AIDS Summit Returns to US After 22 Years
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AIDS Specialists Release 'Road-map' for HIV Cure
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AIDS 2012 Conference Co-Chair Diane Havlir Talks About What it Takes to Turn Tide on Disease
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HIV/AIDS Prevention with Truvada: How Pregnant Women and Others May Benefit
<p>The AIDS drug Truvada, approved this week for prevention of HIV infection in uninfected people at high risk, may benefit many uninfected women whose male partners have HIV, including pregnant women, who may be at higher risk.</p>
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Cancer Support Community's New Service
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AIDS Conference Returns to U.S. For First Time Since 1990
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Experts Outline Steps Towards an AIDS-free Generation
<p>A perspective published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em> this week by professors at UCSF and the Johns Hopkins University asserts that it is now possible to begin to end the AIDS epidemic by widely and strategically applying existing tools.</p>
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UC San Francisco to Form Advisory Board for 'Challenging Times'
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UCSF Investigates Offensive Workplace Incident
<p>UCSF is investigating an incident involving a noose found hanging from a box in a storeroom on the Parnassus campus.</p>
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AIDS Cure Is Back on Agenda
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Media Advisory: UCSF AIDS Blog Covers News as It Unfolds at International AIDS Meeting
On the eve of AIDS 2012, the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, UCSF has launched the blog UCSF AIDS 2012, to cover the news as it unfolds in the days leading up to and during the meeting and to offer daily expert analysis and insight along the way.
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Longtime UCSF Dentistry Leader Dies
<p>William Bird, DDS, DPH, who retired last year after 22 years at the UCSF School of Dentistry, died on Jan. 18, 2012. He was 78.</p>
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Free Online UCSF Courses Attract Thousands of Students
<p>In the first 24 hours after announcing UCSF’s first online classes through the website Coursera, more than 2,500 students signed up for those first three, free classes, signaling what could be a significant expansion in UCSF’s ability to reach a wide audience with its health science courses.</p>
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The Beginning of the End of AIDS?
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Melanoma Treatment Shows Promise at UCSF
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San Francisco AIDS Walk Raises Money and Hope
<p>The year 1982 was pivotal for Paul Volberding, MD. In the early days of the AIDS crisis, he was a talented research fellow who was getting ready to help launch San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center’s Ward 86, which would become the world’s first HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic. It opened its doors the following year.</p>
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For Tiniest Patients, Fetal Surgery Delivers Big Results
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The Single Most Important Experiment in Higher Education
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Chancellor to Appoint Board of Directors to Ensure UCSF's Ability to Deliver on its Public Mission
<p>UCSF will form a dedicated advisory board to help ensure that the University continues to excel as a health sciences innovator and deliver on its critically important public mission, Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, told the UC Regents on July 18.</p>
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Valley Boy Finds Bone Marrow Match
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HIV Breakthroughs Boost Researchers' Optimism
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Running To Be A Great CEO
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The AIDS Epidemic: Beginning of the End?
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Sunday Streets Ends in Bayview this Weekend
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Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Free Children's Dental Screenings at Sunday Streets