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UCSF Doctors Lose Their Locks To Help Fund Cancer Research
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Lynn Ponton: First Novel, 'Metis,' Mines Ancestry
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Market Factors Affect Closures of Emergency Departments Nationwide
<p>Despite a rise in the number of emergency room patients, the number of hospital-based emergency departments in the nation is declining, according to a study led by Renee Hsia, a clinical professor of emergency medicine, and featured in a recent issue of the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association.</em></p>
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UC San Francisco Moving to Electronic Medical Records
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UCSF Docs Shave Their Heads for Cancer Awareness
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SF Circumcision Ban
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UCSF Finds New Honeybee Viruses
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Celebrating Commencement 2011: UCSF Chancellor Advises Graduates to "Seize the Day"
<p>In celebration of commencement 2011, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann congratulates graduates and takes the opportunity to tout what makes UCSF great in a new video posted on YouTube.</p>
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Four Projects Receive Grants for Interprofessional Education
<p>UCSF will fund four innovative educational projects to continue to train the next generation of leaders in health sciences to work as a team. </p>
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Robots at Hospital Pharmacy Mean More Accurate Dosages
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Indian Women in US Also Go for Sex Selection to Have Sons
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SFGH Grand Rounds Explores Disease That First Defined AIDS
<p>Doctors and other health care professionals packed into San Francisco General Hospital’s Carr Auditorium for the June 7 medical grand rounds, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS report to the US Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention.</p>
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New Viruses Found in Bees May Aid in Hunt to Explain Mysterious Deaths
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Are Viruses Killing The Honeybees?
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New Honey Bee Viruses Found
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SFGH's Ward 86: Pioneering HIV/AIDS Care for 30 Years
<p>San Francisco General Hospital's internationally renowned Ward 86, one of the oldest and largest HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States, has from the start of the epidemic led efforts to understand HIV and develop treatments that make it possible for patients to manage the disease.</p>
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A Clinical Drug Trial Via Phone, Computer
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UCSF Finds New Bee Viruses, Offers Baseline to Study Colony Collapse
A 10-month study of healthy honey bees by UCSF scientists has identified four new viruses that infect bees, while revealing that each of the viruses or bacteria previously linked to colony collapse is present in healthy hives as well.
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Pressure to Bear Sons Leads Some to Sex Selection: Study
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Beware, a Big Headache Is Coming
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As Cancer Treatments Advance, So Do Costs
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UCSF Marks Three Decades of AIDS
<p>As one of the preeminent biomedical education and health sciences research institutions in the world, UCSF emerged early as a pioneer in the fight against AIDS. Today, three decades later, UCSF is working on multiple fronts to prevent, treat and stop the spread of the disease that has killed 33 million people worldwide.</p>
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New Glioblastoma Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Phase 2 Trial
<p>Results of a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial on a new brain cancer vaccine tailored to a patient’s own tumor show that the vaccine was safe and less toxic than conventional treatments and that it could extend survival for people with recurrent glioblastoma – a deadly type of brain cancer.</p>
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First AIDS Research Conference in Uganda Focuses on Building Collaborations Among African Investigators
<p>The first conference of its kind in Uganda drew together investigators from across all of sub-Saharan Africa to discuss leading-edge problems in the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of fostering meaningful collaborations to combat the disease.</p>
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Essay: Treating the Earliest Cases of AIDS
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Thirty Years of AIDS: A Timeline of the Epidemic
<p>Thirty years into the fight against HIV/AIDS, UCSF has helped change the course of this deadly disease, which has claimed the lives of 33 million people worldwide. This timeline covers highlights over the past three decades at UCSF, in the nation and around the world.</p>
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Media Advisory: UCSF Doctors to Participate in Head-Shaving Cancer Fundraiser
In a bold demonstration of support for children fighting cancer, several UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital doctors and staff will have their heads shaved bald at a special event to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research.
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AIDS Virus May Accelerate Aging, Scientists Say
<p>Thanks to life-saving treatment, in a few years most people in the United States living with the AIDS virus, HIV, will be more than 50 years old. But even among the successfully treated, HIV, is associated with chronic inflammation, and higher rates of chronic diseases of aging. Inflammation may be a driver of aging, some scientists believe, and HIV patients may be vulnerable to accelerated aging as a result.</p>
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'Catch 22:' Release for Dying Prisoners