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Can Addiction Be Stopped? Banys Responds to Fields
Is alcoholism more than one disease? And does "recovery" actually work? Yes to both, says UCSF psychiatrist Peter Banys in his response to UCSF neuroscientist Howard Fields...
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UCSF Experts Mark the 26th Anniversary of AIDS
World-renowned AIDS researchers and physicians marked the 26th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS recently.
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UCSF receives $150 million pledge for cancer center
UCSF has received a $150 million pledge to support clinical and research programs of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is the largest philanthropic commitment from an individual ever received by the University and was given anonymously.
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Physician to Share Insights from Recent Visit to Iran Today
The campus community is invited to hear Catherine Thomasson, national president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, who will report on her recent trip to Iran.
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UCSF to Host Discussion on Peaceful Solutions to World Problems
The campus community is invited to a lunchtime discussion with Dadi Janki, a revered spiritual leader and advocate for world peace, on June 29.
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UCSF School of Nursing Celebrates a Century of Excellence
More than 700 people gathered at the St. Francis Hotel on June 9 to commemorate a century of nursing excellence at UCSF.
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JAMA Study: Give Doctors Info on Most Widely Covered Medicare Drugs
While millions of elderly Americans are skipping medications because they can't afford them, a new study in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em> offers a solution: Tell doctors upfront which drugs are most widely covered by Medicare so that patients can get their medications faster and more cheaply.
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UCSF's Kahn Discusses Universal Health Care, Michael Moore's Film Sicko
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UCSF Researcher Tracks Genes that Predict Response to Antidepressants
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Voigt Makes Synthetic Biology Come Alive
Genetic robots require a program and an agenda. Synthetic biologist Christopher Voigt supplies both...
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Comparison study shows U.S. low in primary care physician visits
The average American spends a total of about 30 minutes a year with a primary care physician in a system that is less comprehensive than that of Australia or New Zealand, according to a new study comparing primary care practice in the three countries.
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Centennial Video Celebrates 100 Years of the UCSF School of Nursing
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UCSF's Gaffney to be Grand Marshal in San Francisco Pride Parade
Thanks in part to the tremendous support from the campus community, UCSF's own Stuart Gaffney and his partner, John Lewis, will be the Community Grand Marshals in the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
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UCSF Opens Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center
The treatment of cartilage injuries is one of the most difficult challenges facing orthopaedic surgeons. Clinicians and researchers at UCSF are combining forces to establish a multidisciplinary center to meet this challenge. "The UCSF Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center is unlike any other in the region," says UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Hubert Kim, MD, PhD.
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Mother Mice Are More Attuned to Pup Sounds than Are Other Mice
<em>Christoph Schreiner, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery and a member of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF, is senior author of a study reported in PLoS Biology on the way in which auditory neurons detect and discriminate vocalizations. Robert Liu, PhD, the first author of the study, began the work while a postdoctoral fellow in the Schreiner lab. He is now assistant professor of biology at Emory University.</em>
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MRI Is Key to Understanding Cartilage Health
Cartilage injury, repair and regrowth have long been mysterious processes. In part, this is because injured cartilage doesn't act like many other injured tissues; cartilage continues to decline in function well after trauma, and is very slow to heal.
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New Species of Bacteria Discovered at UCSF
NPR's <em>All Things Considered</em> reports that "[a] new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it <em>Bartonella rochalimae</em>, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist." NPR's Rebecca Roberts speaks with Koelher about the discovery of the bacterium, and why that particular name was selected for it.
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Vet Disability System Needs Overhaul, Report Says
Modern weapons, like IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, have left many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating injuries, while advances in trauma care have ensured their survival and return home to cope with those unique injuries, relying on a VA system that is antiquated and can't support their physical and emotional needs, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.
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UCSF Academic Senate Names 2007-2009 Officers
Longtime faculty member David Gardner, Mount Zion Health Plan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, is the new chair of the Academic Senate at UCSF.
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Simple Test Predicts Six-Year Risk of Dementia
A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person's risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
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Scientists propose the kind of chemistry that led to life
Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?
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Srivastava Recieves Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatrics
Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received the prestigious 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.
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Caring for Women of all Ages with Incontinence
UCSF urogynecologist Sharon Knight, MD, recently returned from Niger, where she treated women with an extreme form of incontinence.
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Stem Cell Research Breakthrough
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New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation.
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Blackburn Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Princeton
Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises June 5 to seven distinguished individuals for their contributions to humanitarian efforts and athletic achievements, aerospace and public service, science, literature, medicine, history and the arts.
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Boy's Wish Comes True to Help Cancer Patients Like Himself
A longtime UCSF Children's Hospital patient's wish came true to help make taking cancer medicine a little easier to swallow.
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UCSF's Julius Explains to NPR How the Body Detects Cold and Feels Pain