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Opting to Track, Not Treat, Early Prostate Cancer
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UCSF Study Challenges Thinking on Anorexia
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New Moves To Fast Track Breast Cancer Drug Trials
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Study: Poor Show Compassion More Quickly than Rich
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Breast Cancer Trial Could Speed approval of New Drugs
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Should I Stay (Home Sick) or Should I Go (to Work) Now?
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SF Businessman, Philanthropist, Bluegrass Man Warren Hellman Dies at 77
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Hangover Cures: 5 Foods To Ease Your Symptoms
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UCSF-Led Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease
A large, international team of researchers led by scientists at UCSF has identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or “paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions,” a cause of epilepsy in babies and movement disorders in older children.
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Teen's Transplant in Limbo Over Insurance Changeover
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Keeping Developmentally Disabled Adults Healthy
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New Book Describes UCSF's Metamorphosis into Major Biomedical Center
<p>The UC Medical Humanities Consortium, a multi-campus collaborative, recently hosted a celebration of the publication of four new books, including one by professor emeritus Henry Bourne, who chronicles the rise of UCSF as biomedical powerhouse.</p>
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I Heard You Like Feedback Loops
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How Meditation Might Help You Control Your Weight
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Gladstone Scientists Identify Human Proteins that May Fuel HIV/AIDS Transmission
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered new protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to infect new cells—a discovery that one day could help curb the global spread of this deadly pathogen.
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Reducing Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
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You Might Not Need that Pelvic Exam, Says Study
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Lower Quality of Care, Fewer Nurses at For-Profit Nursing Homes
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Many Disabled Seniors Want to Discuss Long-Term Prognosis with Their Doctors
A majority of disabled seniors in a long-term care program wanted their doctors to talk with them about their life expectancy, but only one reported having had such a discussion, in a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Tobacco Documents to Be More Accessible
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People Who Mattered: Dr. Robert Grant
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Strategies to Stay Safe from Sexual Assault
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Justice Dept Settles with Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Over Tobacco Document Database
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Justice Dept Settles with Tobacco Cos on Database
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UCSF Receives Award to Improve Safety of Blood Transfusions
<p>UCSF and its affiliate Blood Systems Research Institute have been awarded nearly $33 million in research contracts for four projects as part of a major new research initiative designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of blood transfusions in the United States and abroad.</p>
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Stem Cell and Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell and other Genetic Diseases
<p>A cure for sickle cell anemia and other life-threatening genetic disorders that arise in the blood is the goal of a new $6.7-million, five-year research project headed by UCSF scientist Y. W. Kan, a pioneer of modern genetics and the diagnosis of genetic diseases before birth.</p>
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UCSF to Receive Tobacco Papers, Funding to Improve Public Access to the Documents
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order today with a federal district court that tobacco companies provide $6.25 million to improve free public access to tobacco documents via the Internet. The court will provide this money to the UCSF Legacy Library for this purpose.
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Operation Christmas Cheer: Children's Health a Hurdle for Marina Family
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Featured on BioCentury This Week
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, former president for product development at Genentech, is featured in a video interview for BioCentury Publications Inc., a major biopharmaceutical news media source, which first aired online on Dec. 11.</p>