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Outreach Program Inspires Students to Pursue Careers in Health Sciences
<p>UCSF welcomed a group of undergraduate students from across the state last weekend for a two-day event designed to develop a relationship with diverse students who aspire to be among the next generation of health professionals.</p>
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UCSF Study Suggests Way to Bring Stroke Treatment in From the Cold
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Sepsis: Bay Area Hospitals Sharply Cut Death Rates
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Cottonwood Boy Celebrates Life as He Waits for Bone-Marrow Transplant
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UCSF Study Revisits First Clinical Trial to Treat Multiple Sclerosis Decades Later
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">More than two decades after a pivotal clinical trial of a drug was used to treat multiple sclerosis, researchers are reporting a surprising discovery: the people who received interferon in the trial, as opposed to a placebo, were only about half as likely to have died in years since.</span></p>
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Aetna's $1M Backs Four Care R&D Studies
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Protein That Stifles Inflammation May Protect the Brain, UCSF Study Suggests
<p>Feeding brain cells drugs that force them to produce a protein called “HSP70” can protect those cells from injury and death – at least in the test tube, according to University of California researchers.</p>
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Making Sci-Fi a Reality
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Adolescent Psychiatrist Discusses Inspiration Behind New Novel
<p>UCSF's Lynn Ponton, an expert in teen risk-taking and sexuality, has written a new novel, “Metis: Mixed Blood Stories,” which tells the coming-of-age stories of four generations of adolescents as they face different challenges during their 16th year.</p>
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Study Highlights Male Bias in Animal Studies
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Three UCSF Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
<p>Three UCSF professors, in medicine, immunology and molecular pharmacology, are among 212 international leaders who have been elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).</p>
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The Worst Side Effect You've Never Heard Of
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Dead Dolphins on Alabama Coastline
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A Scientific Career Crossing Boundaries: From the Microscopic to the International
<p>Nobel laureate Peter Agre used his own career as an example to point to the international collaborations through which people from across the globe come together with a shared passion to work on scientific mysteries during his recent talk at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.</p>
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UCSF Searches for Extreme Dieters
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AIA New York Honors 38 Winners of Design Awards
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Gulf Oil Spill: Fishermen Say They Are Sick from Cleanup
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New Guidelines Suggest 3 Stages of Alzheimer's
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AIDS Prevention Pill Study Halted; No Benefit Seen
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UCSF Study Shows 3D Images of Fetal Development
<p>UCSF has received funding by the National Institutes of Health to study fetal brain development in specific conditions and to correlate fetal MRI findings with neurodevelopmental outcomes.</p>
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Health Expert Says Financial Crisis Could Force Changes
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AIDS-Prevention Trial Is Halted
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Found! The Seat of Embarrassment in Your Brain
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Extreme Dieting: Does It Lead to Longer Lives?
A seminal UCSF study is probing the biological processes affected by extremely low caloric intake in the first broad examination of the psychological profile of successful extreme dieters gauging how they differ from normal eaters and overeaters. WATCH VIDEO.
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Sarcastic or Serious? Missing Subtle Cues May Signal Dementia
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UCSF Study Explores Stroke in Children
<p>A new retrospective study by interventional neuroradiologist, James Tatum, MD, and colleagues at UCSF look at the effectiveness of treating children having stokes with a technique known as "mechanical embolectomy," a standard treatment for stroke in adults.</p>
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Having Two Neurological Diseases at Once Creates Diagnostic Confusion, UCSF Study Suggests
<p>Preliminary data suggest that when a person has a combination of Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, that produces a clinical syndrome that is difficult to diagnose, according to a UCSF study.</p>
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All Those Tweets, Apps, Updates May Drain Brain
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Eight Is Too Much For 'Short Sleepers'