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Colleagues Mourn Loss of Beloved Psychiatrist Kevin Mack
<p>Colleagues at UCSF and UC Berkeley are mournign the loss of Kevin Mack, MD, MS, a beloved professor, friend and father who died in an accident in San Francisco on July 14. He was 52.</p>
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UCSF Shuttle Buses To Have Seatbelts Following Deadly Crash
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U.S. News and World Report Ranks Nation's Best Hospitals
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UCSF Medical Center Named Top 10 Hospital for 11th Consecutive Year
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals for the 11th consecutive year and is the best in Northern California, according to the 2011-2012 America’s Best Hospitals survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.
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A Vaccine May Shield Boys Too
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17 Hospitals Ranked as Nation's Best
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New Moms Who Express Milk by Hand Breastfeed Longer, UCSF Study Finds
New mothers who practice expressing their breast milk by hand during the first days following their child’s birth are more likely to still be nursing two months later than mothers who use an electric breast pump, according to findings from a new study led by researchers at UCSF.
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Healthier Lifestyles Could Cut Alzheimer's Cases by 30,000
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Traumatic Brain Injury More Than Doubles Dementia Risk
Patients diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) had over twice the risk of developing dementia within seven years after diagnosis compared to those without TBI, in a study of more than 280,000 older veterans conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Treatment May Protect Young Women with Breast Cancer from Early Menopause
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Alzheimer's Disease: Targeting Risk Factors Could Cut Number of Cases
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Over Half of Alzheimer's Cases May Be Preventable, Say Researchers
Over half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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UCSF Community to Gather on July 21 to Remember Kevin Mack
<p>The UCSF community is invited to gather on July 21 to remember Kevin Mack, who died on Thursday during an accident involving a UCSF campus shuttle.</p>
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UCSF Team Shows Spirit at AIDS Walk San Francisco
<p>The UCSF team showed its spirit in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, which drew more than 25,000 walkers and raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS programs and services in the Bay Area.</p>
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Breast Pump Not Best Way to Succeed at Breast Feeding
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UCSF and Stanford Top U.S. News' Best Hospitals List
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AIDS: Emphasis of Research, Funding Shifts to Cure
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Why the Breast Pump May Not Be Your Friend
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Rethinking Tinnitus: When The Ringing Won't Stop, Clear Your Mind
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Clinical and Translational Science Institute
<p>With renewed funding by the National Institutes of Health, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UCSF is poised to further accelerate the translation into clinical therapies, export its successes to other institutions and create initiatives to bring better health to more people more quickly. Explore this web package.</p>
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Injuries of Veterans, Football Players Are Linked to Dementia Later in Life
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Study: Doctors Falling Short on Screenings for Overweight Teens
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NIH Director Says Timing Right to Reengineer Translational Science
<p>Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describes the scientific goals and functions of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a proposed new entity of the NIH that will strive to reengineer the process of developing drugs, diagnostics, and devices. </p>
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Brain Injury Raises Dementia Risk, Study Finds
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Translational Research Begins to Explain Chronic Health Problems Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
<p>Janice Humphreys, a associate professor of Family Health Care Nursing, is working with an interdisciplinary group of UCSF colleagues to study the long-term health and aging effects of intimate partner violence with funding made possible by UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.</p>
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Overweight Teens Less Likely to Get Doctor Weight Talk
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Brain Research at UCSF Aims to Help Distracted Remember
<p>UCSF cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley has used functional brain imaging and EEG studies to discover that older adults fare worse than younger adults at remembering following distractions. He hopes to improve their performance with cognitive training, using a newly developed video game.</p>
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UCSF Nabs $112M from NIH for Translational Research
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Best Hospitals 2011-12: the Honor Roll