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<p>Life isn't always easy being a young woman in San Francisco. According to "San Francisco Girls: A Snapshot Report, 2009," they face serious health challenges. In the past year, 8.3 percent have skipped school due to safety concerns, 14 percent have attempted suicide, and 9 percent have been assaulted by a boyfriend or girlfriend.</p>
<p>For acclaimed chef and restaurateur Corey Lee, preparing the perfect boiled egg — with a soft-solid white and a creamy yolk — is a science, monitored precisely in a laboratory-designed water bath at 64˚ C.</p>
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered that environmental factors critically influence the growth of a type of stem cell — called an iPS cell — that is derived from adult skin cells.
<p>Under sunny skies at UCSF Mission Bay on June 22, Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, joined House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to celebrate a $10 million federal grant for transportation improvements at Mission Bay.</p>
<p>A drug candidate that is nearing clinical trials against a Latin American parasite is showing additional promise as a cure for hookworm, one of the most widespread and insidious parasites afflicting developing nations, according to a collaborative study at UCSF and Yale University.</p>
<p>July will be an active month for the City’s repaving project for Parnassus Avenue as the work moves through the portions of street most densely used by UCSF staff, students, faculty, researchers and patients, according to Maric Munn, director of Campus Facilities Management at UCSF. </p>
<p>The Supreme Court ruling on the health care law is a "great opportunity, but it’s really only the beginning of what’s likely to be a very long journey,” said <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?From=SE&Person=4574215">Josh Adler</a>, MD, chief medical officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.</p>
<p>Smokers can begin loosening the tight grip of nicotine addiction by smoking low-nicotine cigarettes, without lighting up any more than they usually do, according to recent research led by long-time UCSF nicotine researcher Neal Benowitz, MD. </p>
<p>UCSF teams are working hard to achieve a collective fundraising goal of $55,000 in AIDS Walk San Francisco, which is on July 15.</p>
People with lung cancer who are treated with the drug Tarceva face a daunting uncertainty: although their tumors may initially shrink, it's not a question of whether their cancer will return—it's a question of when. And for far too many, it happens far too soon.
<p>Educators across UCSF are considering the implications of the newly affirmed health care law on teaching future pharmacists, doctors, nurses and dentists.</p>