Cell Death and Diabetes: A Conversation with Feroz Papa
In recent years, researchers have learned that beta cells of the pancreas die in patients with type 2 diabetes...
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UCSF Helps Local Kids Run Toward a Healthy Future
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Overweight women at increased risk of advanced breast cancer
A nationwide study of over 280,000 women showed that postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese have advanced breast cancer at significantly higher rates than women of normal weight or less than normal weight.
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Flores Wins Maybelline New York Beauty of Education Award
Katherine Flores will be honored at a gala awards dinner in New York City on Dec. 4 at the New York Public Library.
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Poor health habits put depressed heart patients at greater risk
Patients with heart disease who are depressed are more likely to smoke, not exercise and not take heart medications correctly than those who are not depressed, thereby putting themselves at greater risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and death, according to a five-year study of over one thousand heart patients led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Macy's Tree Lighting Event to Benefit UCSF Children's Hospital
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Cells' Protein-Folding 'ER' May Play a Role in Type 2 Diabetes
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Tool to Measure ER Stress in Cells Promises Diabetes Insight
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Drug Trial Reports Show Bias for Funder's Drug, UCSF Study Shows
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Annual tree lighting ceremony to benefit UCSF Children's Hospital
The 19th annual Macy’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. Macy’s partners with UCSF each year to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital by selling lights to adorn the 80-foot-tall Shasta Fir. Over the last five years, nearly $700,000 has been raised for UCSF’s pediatric palliative care program – Compass Care – which supports families whose children have life-threatening illnesses.
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LAO Projects Huge Budget Deficits Through 2014
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Panel Highlights Medical Promise of Stem Cells
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Breaking Ground: UCSF Builds Institute for Regeneration Medicine
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In Young Men, HPV Vaccine Prevents Conditions That Lead to Cancer
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UCSF to Become a Completely Smoke-Free Campus Today
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Medical Community Looks to New Leadership for Health Care Reform
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UCSF Program Exposes Fourth-Graders to Opportunities in Higher Education
UCSF hosted nearly 100 fourth-graders from San Francisco’s E.R. Taylor Elementary School to learn about the connection between attending college and becoming a health care professional.
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UCSF goes completely smoke free
UCSF will go completely smoke-free tomorrow, November 20, which is Great American Smoke-out Day.
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UCSF Residents Receive Advocacy Awards
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Flu Tracking Highlights Google Search Analysis as a Tool for Medicine
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UCSF Launches 2008 Charitable Giving Campaign
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State Fiscal Crisis Further Depletes 2008-2009 UC Budget
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UCSF Students Present Work to Thousands at National Public Health Conference
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Two cancer drugs prevent, reverse type 1 diabetes, UCSF study shows
Two common cancer drugs have been shown to both prevent and reverse type 1 diabetes in a mouse model of the disease, according to research conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. The drugs – imatinib (marketed as Gleevec) and sunitinib (marketed as Sutent) – were found to put type 1 diabetes into remission in 80 percent of the test mice and work permanently in 80 percent of those that go into remission.
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Fiscal Report from UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor Steve Barclay
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AAMC Honors Schroeder as Anti-Smoking Crusader
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UCTV to Webcast International Climate Summit
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UCSF Today Readers Comment on Election Results
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University Community Partnerships Program Requests Proposals for Grants
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UCSF team moves in on mechanism in stem cell growth, possibly cancer
A class of miniscule molecules called microRNAs has become a major focus of biomedical research. Now, UCSF scientists have identified multiple members of this class that enable embryonic stem cells to divide, and thus proliferate, much more rapidly than the mature, or specialized, cells of the adult body.