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Heart Attacks and Women: Disease Presents Differently by Gender
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Expensive CT Scans: Where's the Patient Benefit?
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Course Offers Lessons in Biotech Business Savvy
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Faculty React to Attacks in Mumbai
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UCSF's Aging Brain Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
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New Online Course Offers Safety Tips for Active Shooter Scenario
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Heart Attacks and Women: Disease Presents Differently by Gender
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UCSF Medical Center leads nation in ER heart attack care
UCSF Medical Center ranks No. 1 nationwide for the speed with which heart attack patients are treated using balloon angioplasty, according to the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). Cardiac balloon angioplasty and stenting are the procedures used to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels and must be performed quickly after a heart attack to minimize heart muscle loss.
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CDC Director to Talk at UCSF About Rescuing Health, Economy
Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will talk about health care and the economic crisis when she visits UCSF on December 9.
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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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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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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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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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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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Drug Trial Reports Show Bias for Funder's Drug, UCSF Study Shows
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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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Medical Community Looks to New Leadership for Health Care Reform
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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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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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State Fiscal Crisis Further Depletes 2008-2009 UC Budget