UCSF Team Battles Pediatric MS
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is typically thought of as a neurological disorder affecting adults. But children get it too.
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Carol Channing to star in comedy benefit for UCSF patient services
Actress Carol Channing will return to her home town of San Francisco to perform in "Love & Laughter...and Legends: Just What the Doctor Ordered," a benefit for patient services at UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center.
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Princeton economist to address health care crisis at April 5 lecture
Uwe Reinhardt, PhD, an expert on health policy, will speak at UCSF on Thursday, April 5, as the third speaker in the UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public.
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UCSF Recruits Director of Academic Diversity
UCSF faculty members are encouraged to apply for a new position: director of academic diversity in the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
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UCSF human embryonic stem cell research fueled with CIRM funding
Eight UCSF faculty members intent on using human embryonic stem cells to explore treatment strategies for a variety of disorders -- heart disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and blood disorders -- were among the 29 scientists awarded major grants today by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
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Campus Seeks Nominations for GLBT Award
UCSF is seeking nominations for the annual Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and/or Transgender (GLBT) Leadership.
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Express Yourself: A Conversation with Chris Barker, Director of the Genomics Core Laboratory
Managing an array of tools is at the core of modern science...
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UCSF Rideshare Program Offers Incentives for Vanpooling
Now it pays to take vanpools to work, thanks to a new pilot incentive program being offered through the UCSF Rideshare program.
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Bringing the War Back Home
A study published in the <i>Archives of Internal Medicine</i> by Karen Seal, MD, MPH, and colleagues at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, measures mental illness in injured vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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UCSF Fellow Honored for Cancer Prevention Research
A third-year postdoctoral fellow in epidemiology has been recognized for her breast cancer research.
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Two California leaders to be honored for fighting domestic violence
California Congresswoman Lois Capps and Bruce Bodaken, chief executive officer of Blue Shield of California, will be honored during a March 16 reception at the Asian Art Museum for their continued efforts to combat domestic violence.
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On the Media: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes
The impact of movie sex and violence on kids may be up for debate, but with smoking, the science is solid. Teens who see a lot of it are more likely to take up the habit than those who don't. Stanton Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at UCSF and renowned anti-tobacco researcher and activist, wants the MPAA to take smoking as seriously as it takes cursing.
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Staff Council Seeks Input to Help Guide Its Work
The Staff Council at UCSF is surveying staff members to get a better idea of the kinds of issues it should be working on this year.
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UCSF policy expert presents recommendation for health coverage
A health policy specialist at UCSF has developed a strategy to provide universal health care for major and chronic illness for everyone by instituting a plan that incorporates aspects of both a single-payer model and a plan similar to a preferred provider organization, known as a PPO.
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Training for AIDS Lifecycle Puts Knee Replacement into Perspective
UCSF's Carol Hyman tells her story about how training for the AIDS/LifeCycle has put her own rehabilitation from knee surgery into perspective.
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UCSF offers free skin cancer screenings
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UCSF professor to explain the female brain
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Macular Degeneration: Preserving Eyesight Through Regeneration Science
Macular degeneration is the major cause of vision loss in the United States. The disease, which kills photoreceptors that convey visual signals from the eye to the brain, often strikes the elderly. Its defining symptom is blurriness in the central visual field, a blurriness that robs many people of their ability to drive or read.
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Peripheral Vascular Disease: Keeping the Blood Flowing
Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD, describes his job as "taking care of people who have problems with poor blood flow to different parts of their bodies." In practice, it means that the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center vascular surgeon is constantly on his way to or from the operating room. He's happy to schedule time to discuss his work, as long as the questioner understands one proviso: "I may be in surgery."
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Cancer Cluster: Tracking a Killer in Nevada
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A Speck of Spec: A Conversation with Al Burlingame
Why knowing a little can sometimes tell you a lot...
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UCSF Events for April 2007
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March 12 seminar educates transplant recipients on skin cancer risk
March 12 seminar educates transplant recipients on skin cancer riskA special seminar at UCSF on Monday, March 12, will focus on educating transplant patients about the potential risk of skin cancer.
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SFGH Surgeon: Helping the Wounded in Germany
Peggy Knudson, MD, San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon of 18 years, has been selected for a second time to work at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, as part of the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program funded jointly by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the American College of Surgeons and the US military.
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The Serbian Connection: UCSF Teaching Goes International
Igor Mitrovic, MD, UCSF associate adjunct professor of physiology, still remembers the unexpected email that showed up on his campus computer screen in the spring of 2005.
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Professor, Author to Explain Female Brain
Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, author of the book, <i>The Female Brain</i>, will be a guest speaker at a public forum on March 27 at UCSF Mission Bay.
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Chair of Medicine to Receive 2007 Trudeau Medal
Talmadge King Jr., professor and interim chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, will receive the Trudeau Medal in May.
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UCSF Acknowledges Generosity of Late Ernest Gallo
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The Dangers of Blood Clots and How You Can Protect Yourself
Vice President Dick Cheney, 66, is being treated at a Washington, DC, hospital after developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT), a blood clot in his left leg, after 65 hours of plane travel. Such clots are rare but are sometimes caused by extended air travel.
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Women sacrifice sleep to "Do It All," survey finds
American women are struggling to "do it all" and are sacrificing sleep to juggle their family and work responsibilities, according to a new survey led by a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco.