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UCSF Fetal Treatment Center Featured in National Association Special Report
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Tiny Horse Brings Big Smiles at UCSF Children's Hospital
A miniature horse named Thumbelina received a rock star's welcome at UCSF Children's Hospital on Tuesday.
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Ex-NFL players to take part in heart screenings at UCSF on August 18
Former National Football League players will be screened for heart disease at the UCSF Medical Center. The event is in conjunction with a national program by the Living Heart Foundation to call attention to heart disease in general and the specific cardiovascular challenges of athletes.
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UCSF hosts "Celebration of Life" party
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Stents or Bypass: State of the Heart in Coronary Care
Patients now have a number of choices for treating blockages in the heart arteries.
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Answers to Aging from the Amish
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Evidence of results is key to improving healthcare
The recent trend of rapidly adopting interventions to improve quality and safety in healthcare has not been followed by a trend to produce evidence of results, according to a UCSF researcher on patient outcomes.
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Partnership Forged to Fight HIV/AIDS in China
A relationship established during the bleakest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco has developed into a landmark affiliation agreement signed between the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (China CDC's) National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control (NCAIDS).
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Successful Surgery Puts College Student Back on Basketball Court
When 23-year-old Mendocino college student Jeremy Decker went to his Ukiah-area doctor with a severely damaged knee after playing basketball, he was quickly referred to UCSF.
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Inhaled nitric oxide safe for tiny preemie lungs, UCSF study finds
A nationwide study led by researchers at UCSF provides evidence that inhaled nitric oxide is safe and effective for the prevention of the most common type of long-term lung disease of
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UCSF Names First Director of Academic Diversity
J. Renee Navarro, a well-recognized clinical leader and champion of diversity at UCSF, has been appointed as the University's first director of academic diversity.
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Researchers uncover new pathway for popular MS drug
Researchers at UCSF and Stanford University have discovered a key mechanism responsible for the activity of a commonly prescribed drug for treating multiple sclerosis (MS), which they hope will spur better therapies for the disease.
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UCSF to Host Faculty Welcoming Activities
All faculty members are invited to participate in welcoming activities and learn more about the University this September.
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Skin Cancer Scientist Sees Ray of Hope: A Conversation with James Cleaver
From the A-bomb to XP, James Cleaver has become an expert on DNA repair and the "fundamental derangement" we know as cancer...
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Summer Assignment: Genetically Engineer a New Cell
Just a few weeks ago, they were finishing high school. Today, they're trying to reprogram the "molecular bar code" that distinguishes one part in a cell from another. Six pre-college students and one undergraduate are working with UCSF graduate student and postdoc mentors to fashion a new kind of organelle inside a living cell.
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UCSF's Brizendine Comments on New Study Examining Motivations for Having Sex
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Can Looking into the Sun Make You Sneeze?
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UCTV Now Available Nightly in San Francisco
UCTV programming will air nightly from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. on EATV2, the educational access channel recently launched by City College of San Francisco.
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Two UCSF Postdocs Named to New Class of Damon Runyon Fellows
UCSF postdoctoral scholars Thomas M. Huckaba, PhD, and Melissa R. Junttila, PhD, have been named among 18 new Damon Runyan Fellows by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at the Foundation's May 2007 Scientific Advisory Committee review. Recipients of the prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country.
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"Izzy Time" in Demand at Kids' Hospital
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Police Report Arrest of Auto Burglary Suspect, Issue Warnings
Suspect Robert Dentley was arrested during the commission of an auto burglary at the Millberry Union garage on July 24.
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UCSF Children's Hospital to Honor
UCSF Children's Hospital will hold a special reunion picnic for children--from infants to teens--who are transplant patients.
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Cooke Elected as Member-at-Large of the National Board of Medical Examiners
Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, has been elected to a four-year term as a Member-at-Large of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).
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Research teams uncover risk genes for Multiple Sclerosis
Two new large-scale genomic studies have honed in on the main genetic pathway associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), while also uncovering new genetic variations in the disease and suggesting a possible link between MS and other autoimmune diseases.
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Cancer Center Names Director of Investigational Therapeutics
Eric Small, who leads the Prostate Cancer Program, has been appointed director of investigational therapeutics in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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UCSF's Boxer Discusses Alzheimer's Disease on KQED-FM
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Surgeon Stars in Scientist Role
UCSF surgeon scientist Hobart Harris has sepsis in his sights and movies on his mind...
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UCSF to Change Shuttle Services Effective July 30
Campus shuttle service on weekends between the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses will be discontinued, among other changes to take effect on July 30.
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More Power to Population Studies in Pancreas Cancer Research