UCSF Medical Student Reaches Underrepresented Youth through Student National Medical Association
A fourth-year medical student at UCSF was elected to the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) board of directors.
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Give to UCSFA fourth-year medical student at UCSF was elected to the Student National Medical Association (SNMA) board of directors.
California’s state tobacco control program saved $86 billion--in 2004 dollars--in personal healthcare costs in its first 15 years, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Saving your back means knowing your spine...
The UCSF University Community Partnerships Council has announced its first annual grants awards, totaling $166,055, to 12 San Francisco-based public-health community organizations. Of these, four grants specifically target community groups based in Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP), with awards totaling $99,522.
Five UCSF stem cell scientists have received New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
An aggressive childhood brain tumor known as medulloblastoma originates in normal brain “stem” cells that turn malignant when acted on by a known mutant, cancer-causing oncogene, say researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Channeling better health from the body's electrical store...
Scientists have identified a pattern of gene activity that predicts which patients who experience the first clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis – known as clinically isolated syndrome – are at high risk of converting to the full blown disease.
UCSF’s resident Brain Man, Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD, director of UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center and featured guest on Science Café last March, continues to get ink – and with good reason...