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Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, said today that the clinical enterprise is looking for ways to reduce expenses and expects to know by the end of April whether layoffs will be necessary.
Disease linked to untreated risk factors in early adult years As many as 1 in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before the age of 50, 20 times the rate in whites in this age group, according to new findings published in the March 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine by a UCSF research team.
Every other Tuesday afternoon, UCSF experts hit the airwaves – with topics ranging from childhood obesity to heart disease – at a community radio station located a few blocks from the Mount Zion campus.
San Francisco officials paid tribute to the late children’s health advocate on Arbor Day, and her legacy lives on through a recently established scholarship fund at UCSF and the new Ellen Wolfe Children’s Center at San Francisco General Hospital.
Researchers with the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a five-year, nationwide, longitudinal study of possible markers of Alzheimer’s disease, announced that a genomic analysis of the 800 participants in the study is more than 95 percent complete, and that the data will be shared with scientists around the world for further analysis.
Older adults who drink one to two glasses of alcohol per day are 25 percent less at risk of death from any cause than people who drink more than that and those who do not drink at all, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
Mammography is widely used to screen for tumors in young women – even women in their 20s – who inherit a genetic mutation that confers a very high risk for breast cancer. But new research now suggests that exposing the youngest of these women to even small doses of radiation via screening mammograms might do more harm than good.
The Symphony Parnassus concert on March 29 in San Francisco will feature 12 current and former UCSF students, faculty and staff.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will host a forum on stem cell research progress on March 18 – a timely event, given President Obama’s new policy that allows the use of federal funds to conduct research on human embryonic stem cells.
In its effort to advance translational medicine – the application of scientific discoveries to patient care – UCSF is undergoing a physical transformation to create a campus where science, medicine and industry blend harmoniously.
UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million gift for its campaign to build a children’s, women’s specialty and cancer hospital complex at the UCSF Mission Bay campus, near downtown San Francisco. This is the largest support to date for the $600 million hospital fundraising campaign and among the largest gifts in UCSF’s history.
UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history – $125 million – as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus.
A team of physicians at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco recommends more effective use of interpreters, greater awareness of potential areas of mistrust and misunderstanding, better communication with families, and better knowledge of cultural differences in general when planning end-of-life and palliative care for Latino patients in the United States.
UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret discusses the importance of translational medicine, and how UCSF is working to accelerate the transition of scientific breakthroughs from the lab to the patient’s bedside.
Researchers have developed a new mouse model that allows them to replicate normal pigment cells at the earliest stages of conversion to malignant skin cancer in humans. After testing the mouse with a combination of two drug therapies, the team found the treatment caused a statistically significant regression in cancer cell development.
The UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender HIV Prevention (CoE) has received a grant from The California Endowment that will expand access to information and resources on providing culturally competent health care to trangender individuals.
M. Anthony Pogrel will oversee the School of Dentistry’s interactions with UCSF Medical Center and affiliated hospitals.
Interest in personal health records as an electronic tool to manage health information is increasing dramatically. A group led by a UCSF researcher has identified cost, privacy concerns, design shortcomings and difficulties sharing information across different organizations as critical barriers hindering broad implementation of electronic personal health records.
As politicians and policymakers around the country push to expand the use of electronic medical records, UCSF Professor James Kahn says flaws in the current systems are standing in the way of widespread adoption by the American public.
New UCSF Faculty, March 2009
Older women with the metabolic syndrome – a constellation of health-risk factors – had a 66 percent increase in risk of developing cognitive impairment compared with women who did not have the syndrome, according to a large study of post-menopausal women led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop joined President Obama as he lifted the Bush administration’s strict limits on human embryonic stem cell research at the White House on Monday.
New UCSF Faculty, March 2009
A prominent UCSF stem cell researcher says President Obama’s executive order on embryonic stem cell research “can only accelerate the research and speed advances in treatment” for myriad diseases.
New UCSF Faculty, March 2009
UCSF alumna Kay Tye was selected for a prestigious award, based on her groundbreaking research into the role of a particular brain region in the earliest stages of reward learning.
UCSF is hosting the National Lesbian Health Summit, which brings together thought leaders from around the nation to examine issues of lesbian health research, policy and clinical care.
A team of specialists at UCSF Medical Center has treated its first patients as part of a multi-center clinical study to evaluate an incision-free procedure for the treatment of obesity.