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World AIDS Day events at UCSF & Gladstone
The November 30, 2009 Merle Sande Memorial Lecture: “The Prehistory of HIV-1: Understanding the Primate Roots of Human AIDS" and the December 1, 2009 “Minority Stress Theory, Findings and Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention with Racial/Ethnic Minority Gay and Bisexual Men” lecture.
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UCSF to Observe World AIDS Day with Symposium, Film Screening
The campus community is invited on December 1 to attend a symposium and screening of a short film documenting San Francisco’s leading role in responding to the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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UCSF Neurosurgery media coverage
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"UCSF in India" Film Series Showcases Fruitful Partnerships
A series of three short films depicts how UCSF is advancing health in India by addressing three of its major health concerns: HIV/AIDS, tobacco use and eye diseases.
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Stuffed on Thanksgiving? Dementia Research May Shed Light on Overeating
UCSF studies of frontotemporal dementia may shed light on Thanksgiving and year-round overeating.
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Annual tree lighting ceremony to benefit UCSF Children's Hospital
The 20th annual Macy’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. Macy’s partners with UCSF each year to raise funds for the UCSF Children’s Hospital palliative care program – Compass Care – which provides essential medical care and emotional support for families whose children have life-threatening illnesses. Over the last six years, more than $800,000 has been raised through sponsoring lights that adorn Macy’s gift to the city, an 85-foot-tall Shasta Fir tree.
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Colleagues Commend Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-Winning Research
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD – along with Carol Greider, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack Szostak, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital – recognizes the importance of the most fundamental kind of basic biological science.
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Community Forum Highlights Environmental Breast Cancer Risks
Activists, scientists and administrators convene to discuss research on the role of environmental chemicals in breast cancer.
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$2 M Gift to Help Build New UCSF Children's Hospital at Mission Bay
A $2M gift for the new UCSF Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay was unveiled on November 19 in San Francisco during a conference hosted by the cloud computing company Salesforce.com. The gift is comprised of $1M from the Salesforce.com Foundation and a matching gift of $1M from Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and his family. The Foundation gift is part of a new initiative called Healthy Communities and honors General Colin L. Powell, USA (retired), who is a strong child advocate and friend of the Foundation.
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UCSF to Host Town Hall to Provide Progress Update on Medical Center at Mission Bay
The UCSF community is invited to attend a town hall meeting on December 4 to hear an update on the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay project.
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Tissue tension regulates tumor progression
UCSF scientists have shown for the first time that the rigidity of a tissue can induce cancer. The research team identified an enzyme that is crucial for regulating tissue stiffness and demonstrated that the enzyme can turn abnormal but non-malignant breast tissue into tumors, according to a study published in “Cell” online.
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UCSF to Host Annual Holiday Shopping Spree
No need to go to the mall when shopping from local vendors will be available in the Millberry Union on December 2 and 3.
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Schizophrenia gene's role may be broader, more potent, than thought
UCSF scientists studying fruit flies have uncovered a new function for a gene whose human equivalent may play a critical role in schizophrenia.
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UC Commission on the Future to Visit UCSF
The UCSF community is invited to offer ideas on the future of the University of California on December 1, when members of the UC Commission on the Future will visit the campus.
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SF Chronicle features UCSF program for homebound patients
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NYT article on cutting health care costs features solutions at UCSF
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Commission on Future Hears Radical Funding Ideas
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Health Reform Must Include Push to Speed Innovation, Chancellor Says
The national debate over health care reform has focused primarily on insurance costs, while overlooking a crucial aspect of human health: innovation and the translation of scientific discoveries into widely used therapies, according to UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH.
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UCSF Experts Weigh In on New Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening
The latest recommendations about breast cancer screening are part of a necessary trend toward more personalized, risk-based care, several UCSF experts say.
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Committee Approves Budget Plan, Student Fee Increases
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UCSF prostate cancer experts featured on KGO
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UC President Seeks $913 Million Increase in State Funding
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UCSF 2009 Charitable Giving Campaign Begins
UCSF starts the season of sharing this week with the annual charitable giving campaign, which runs through the end of the year.
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New Initiatives Highlight UCSF's Commitment to Advancing Global Health
UCSF is taking the lead on a broad range of global health projects and partnerships aimed at improving health throughout the world.
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World of Chronic Pain Suddenly Looks Different to Researchers
A nerve pathway responsible for a type of chronic pain has been identified by UCSF researchers.
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UCSF Chancellor named among Forbes "most powerful innovators"
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Program Offers Sense of Community to Patients with Variety of Lung Disorders
The Interstitial Lung Disease Program at UCSF goes beyond medical care, offering support groups, seminars and research studies.
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UCSF to Pursue Strategic Partnership with King's College London
UCSF has agreed to a pursue a strategic partnership with King’s College London to explore opportunities for scholarly interaction, cooperative research, faculty and student exchange and other forms of academic collaboration.
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UCSF Cardiologist cited in Wired magazine tasers story