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UCSF Team Performs Surgery to Restore Iraqi Boy's Hearing
A 3-year-old who lost his hearing in a US missile attack receives a cochlear implant at UCSF after a massive fundraising effort and outpouring of support his father calls “beyond my imagination.”
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Frequently Asked Questions About Cochlear Implants
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UCSF's Role in Developing the Cochlear Implant
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Faculty Reflect on Diversity as Many Head to Washington, DC, for Presidential Inauguration
Faculty who are going to the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20 are feeling optimistic about the future.
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Iraqi boy undergoes surgery to restore hearing
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy will undergo surgery at UCSF Medical Center today (Friday, January 16), to restore his hearing, which was destroyed in June 2007 when a U.S. explosive device hit his neighbor’s house.
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Chancellor Bishop Issues His Final UCSF Annual Report
Chancellor Mike Bishop, who will step down from the top post in June, delivered his final annual report on Tuesday, citing many accomplishments over the past year and thanking 18,000 employees for their service to UCSF.
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UCSF Study Reveals Roots of Endothelial Cell Development
A team of UCSF researchers has discovered a protein duo that regulates the formation of endothelial cells – a breakthrough that has significant scientific and therapeutic implications.
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UCSF VA researchers call drug company deceptions typical
The pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis employed “the systematic use of deception and misinformation” in order to manipulate physicians into prescribing the drug gabapentin for so-called off-label uses, write two San Francisco VA Medical Center physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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UC Regents Approve Plans to Trim Enrollment, Freeze Senior Management Pay
Acting on the recommendation of University of California President Mark G. Yudof, the UC Board of Regents today (Jan. 14) approved plans curtailing undergraduate enrollment growth, and freezing the salaries of top administrators and significantly restricting compensation for a large group of senior leadership.
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Applications Sought for Staff Advisor to UC Regents
Application forms will be accepted through March 2 for the position of staff advisor-designate to the UC Board of Regents.
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UCSF Offers Faculty Mentoring Workshops
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Many Patients at Risk of Harmful Drug Interactions
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UCSF Pharmacy Student Promotes Diversity, Community Outreach on National Scale
Fourth-year student Ashish Patel has worked tirelessly at both the local and national level to inspire youth from all backgrounds to consider careers in medicine or science.
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Study of Powerful Genes and Cancer Points to Vitamin D, Inflammation
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UCSF researchers use new tools to move in on cancer susceptibility genes
UCSF researchers have used a new strategy to study inherited susceptibility for skin cancer in mice. In the process, they have identified a network of genes that may play a key role in controlling this susceptibility. The technique, the scientists say, could be used to identify such genes in human cancers.
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Looking Far Afield for Pancreas Cancer Clues
Consider the lab mouse. The rodent is used to model tumor growth in countless studies of genes and cancer. About 99 percent of mouse genes also appear in humans. Mouse and human also are similar when one compares the DNA code within these genes. Mice get cancer, and they get more cancer when genetically engineered with human cancer-causing genes.
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The Immune System and Natural Killer Cells: A Conversation with Lewis Lanier
New research published in the scientific journal Nature this week strongly suggests that underappreciated cells of the immune system, called natural killers, play a more important role than previously thought when it comes to fighting viruses that cause chronic disease – including a common herpesvirus called CMV, and perhaps HIV, hepatitis C and many others.
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UC Regents to Consider Plans to Trim Enrollment, Freeze Senior Management Pay
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Maria W. Yiu joins Department of Laboratory Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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Shedding More Light on Surgery as a Global Health Concern
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New State Medical Privacy Laws Incurring Personal Liability Now Effective
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Sophia Saeed join Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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Nominations Sought for Awards for Exceptional Management, Service
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Nominations Due Jan. 16 for Chancellor's Public Service Award
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Medical Center Revamps Practices to Keep Heart Patients Out of Hospital
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Colon Cancer and Heredity: A Conversation with Amie Blanco
Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the nation’s fourth most common cancer in both men and women. Like other forms of cancer, colon cancer has a hereditary component, and individuals who are genetically predisposed to colon cancer have a lifetime risk of at least 80 percent.
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UCSF Faculty Get Insiders' Look at Cuban Health Care System
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UCSF and Muhimbili University launch initiative to strengthen Tanzanian health workforce
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Muhimbili University of Health Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania to develop, implement and document strategies to enable MUHAS and other African institutions to meet their countries’ health workforce needs.
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Drug Design Caution for Biotech and Pharma Firms That Target Kinases
Drug design is never easy, and few drug candidates make it through the development pipeline and into the medicine cabinet. Side effects loom large among potential bugaboos. In the Dec. 14 online edition of the leading scientific journal Nature, a UCSF laboratory research team now reports another unintended consequence of drugs targeted against enzymes, known as kinases, within the body.