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San Francisco General Hospital Appoints Two New Senior Medical Staff Officers
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UCSF Nurse Calls Attention to Indoor Air Pollution in Guatemala
<p>UCSF family practice nurse Lisa Thompson is calling attention to the dangers of rustic stoves – which use biomass fuels such as wood, coal, animal dung and crop residue – and result in harmful pollutants adversely affecting people in developing countries.</p>
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In Tiny Worm, Unlocking Secrets of the Brain
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Research Faculty Asked to Rate Pre-Award Services in Emailed Survey
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Soda Consumption Down Among High School Students
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Boy's Cancer Has Met Its Match
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Media Advisory: Reunion, Community Health Fair Celebrate 100 Years at Mount Zion Hospital Hellman Building
Celebration of the centennial of the Hellman Building, the first Mount Zion Hospital built from the ground up. The building, state-of-the-art for its time, still stands today and remains dedicated to patient care.
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UC Fundraisers See Promising Signs as Need Rises
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Measuring and Lowering Your Health Risks
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Making Translation Work
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Turning to Software to Help Treat Brain Injuries
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New Website Answers What Works in Global Health
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new web portal this month that summarizes findings for a range of prevention and treatment interventions designed to reduce the risk of death and disease in the developing world.</p>
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U.S. Medicaid Drug Lists Cost More, Deliver Less
The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and effective medications, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF.
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John Plotts, UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration
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Cuts the Only Certainty
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Free Dental Care Gives Uninsured a Reason to Smile
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Mount Zion Anniversary Event on June 18 Celebrates Past, Present and Future
<p>The public is invited to attend a community health fair on June 18, offering opportunities to interact with representatives from many of the great programs and services at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and featuring presentations about health, live music and neighborhood food.</p>
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More Bay Area Women Trying Acupuncture to Help Them Have Children
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Learning Lessons from an HIV Cure
<p>For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and treatment, or discovering effective drugs and providing them to people with HIV/AIDS, helping them live longer.</p>
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Media Advisory: News Conference 'Physical Toll of PTSD'
A June 23rd NCIRE news conference about growing evidence that post-traumatic stress disorder takes a physical toll.
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The Waits That Matter
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Is South Asian Vegetarian Diet Bad for Immigrants' Hearts?
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New Kidney Filtration System Could Simplify Dialysis
UCSF researchers have designed a model filtration system that could offer a new approach to treating patients suffering from end-stage renal disease, potentially removing the need for a clinic-based dialysis process altogether.
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FDA Approves Transplant Drug That Preserves Kidneys, Avoids Toxicity
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UCSF Stem Cell, Cancer Scientist Honored for Pioneering Studies
UCSF’s Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD, has received the 2011 Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research, for his pioneering research on the role of molecular tools known as microRNAs in embryonic stem cells and cancer.
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Going Bald To Battle Cancer
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Honey Bee Virus May Be the Cause of Hive Collapse
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UCSF Stem Cell Scientist Wins Young Researcher Award
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Cold Cap Therapy During Chemotherapy Reduces Hair Loss