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Two More Men with HIV Now Virus-free. Is This a Cure?
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Early Treatment May Improve Socioeconomic Conditions for People in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa With HIV
Adults with HIV in rural sub-Saharan Africa who receive antiretroviral drugs early in their infection may reap benefits in their ability to work and their children's ability to stay in school, according to a first-of-its-kind clinical study in Uganda that compared socioeconomic outcomes with CD4+ counts — a standard measure of health status for people with HIV.
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Cancer Drug Flushes out HIV
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CT for Chest Pain in ER Gets Patients Home Sooner
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Increasing Dopamine in Frontal Cortex Decreases Impulsive Tendency, UCSF-Gallo Scientists Find
Raising levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the frontal cortex of the brain significantly decreased impulsivity in healthy adults, in a study conducted by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Viewpoints: Science Supporting Medicinal Pot Is Clear
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Best Practices in Lecture Capture
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Truvada Is Part of Larger HIV Discussion
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Jesse Dylan Film Series Spotlights Gladstone Science
The UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes has joined forces with Jesse Dylan’s award-winning film company to raise public awareness — through a series of short films — about unmet medical needs that Gladstone scientists and supporters are addressing with a powerful blend of basic science and disease expertise.
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Heart Attack Risk Balloons after Surgery to Fix Hip or Knee
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Pioneering AIDS Researcher Receives Major Accolade
<p>John Greenspan, BDS, PhD, considers himself naturally curious. When he started seeing a rare form of cancer of the lymphatoid system in young San Francisco men during the early 1980s, he was intrigued.</p>
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More Older People Treated for Depression
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Study Questions CT Scans to Rule Out Heart Attacks
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Women with Diabetes More Likely to Experience Sexual Dissatisfaction
Women with diabetes are just as likely to be interested in, and engage in, sexual activity as non-diabetic women, but they are much more likely to report low overall sexual satisfaction, according to a UCSF study.
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The Female Face of HIV: "We Don't Have to Care for Ourselves"
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Chicago Woman's Family Lawyers Up After Abortion-Related Death
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Does Palliative Care Belong in the ER?
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UCSF Team Engineers 'Safety Switches' for Immune Therapies
A UCSF team has harnessed a natural protein in bacteria to create a “pause switch” in immune cells, potentially leading to more effective and safer immune therapies for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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SEARCH Study Shows 1-Year Drop in HIV Virus Levels in Rural Ugandan Parish After Community Health Campaign
Population-wide levels of HIV virus dropped substantially between 2011 and May 2012 in a rural part of southwestern Uganda, the site of two community health campaigns led by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
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Women with Diabetes May Have More Problems with Sex
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Talk of 'Cure' at Historic AIDS Conference
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Child's Illness Fuels Search for Early-life Epilepsy Diagnostics
<p>When Ramon Birnbaum, <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr>, came to <abbr title="University of California, San Francisco">UCSF</abbr> three years ago to do his postdoctoral work on the role of genetic regulation in human disease in the lab of School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr>, epilepsy was barely on his radar.</p>
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'Berlin Patient' Timothy Brown Says He Is Still HIV-Free
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Research Ban for Surgeons after Probiotic Experiment
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AIDS 2012 Draws Thousands to Nation's Capitol
<p><span>Bill and Hillary Clinton, Sharon Stone, Kathleen Sebelius, Bill Gates and Elton John are a few of the headliners to speak this week at AIDS 2012, the XIX International AIDS Conference, which runs through July 27 in Washington, D.C.</span></p>
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Researchers Renewing Focus on AIDS Cure
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AIDS Cure May Have Two Main Pathways: Experts
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Warner Greene Authors HIV/AIDS Medicine Textbook for Developing World
Warner C. Greene, MD, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at UCSFwho directs virology and immunology research at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes, has joined with other global AIDS experts to release a locally affordable version of the world’s leading AIDS medical textbook.
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Health Campaign Shows Universal HIV Testing Can Be Extended for Early Identification of Other Diseases
A clinical study in a remote region of southwest Uganda has demonstrated the feasibility of using a health campaign to rapidly test a community for HIV and simultaneously offer prevention and diagnosis for a variety of other diseases in rural and resource-poor settings of sub-Saharan Africa.