University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF<p>The UCSF Police Department would like to inform members of the UCSF community that April 21 through April 29, 2012, has been designated as World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. </p>
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UCSF Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. The event is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague.
<p>The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — is solved this week in the journal <em>Nature</em> by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
<p>The UC Global Health Institute has received one of five, $4 million grants from the Fogarty International Center to support 50 to 60 new fellows in global health research over the next five years, starting September 2012.</p>
<p><em>Time </em>magazine has named Gladstone and UCSF scientist Robert Grant, MD, MPH, to the <a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112159,00.html" target="_blank">2012 TIME 100</a>, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.</p>
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 than previously reported.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann spoke with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/17/working-toward-a-new-social-contract-for-health-care/" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> reporter Amy Marcus about her vision of a “new social contract” for patients participating in the health care system.</p>
A new brain cancer vaccine tailored to individual patients by using material from their own tumors has proven effective in a multicenter phase 2 clinical trial at extending their lives by several months or longer. The patients suffered from recurrent glioblastoma multiform — which kills thousands of Americans every year.
A new UCSF Medical Center study finds that publicly reported “hospital readmission rates” often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery that may be misleading to patients.
<p>Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will celebrate excellence in education at UCSF when she delivers her 2012 commencement address to be webcast live on Tuesday, April 24.</p>