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Bay Area hospitals are testing a new device called Motion C5 which could make the paper patient medical chart a thing of the past. The handheld computer tablet, developed in collaboration with UCSF, allows medical staff to enter patient data at the bedside, and logon is controlled by a fingerprint ID.
Green building advocate Maric Munn has joined UCSF as the new Director of Facilities Management.
Nearly 35 graduating students in the Doctors Academy Program at Sunnyside High School in Fresno are headed to UCSF on Wednesday.
A gene therapy treatment for cancer offered in Beijing involves injecting a tumor suppression gene called p53 mixed with a modified virus into a cancer cell to suppress its growth. "The virus is sort of like a Trojan horse," says UCSF oncologist Alan Venook, MD, a cancer specialist who has studied p53.
Medical advances made from the development of new drugs are astounding. However, the competition for potential profit has created many critics. Tune in to UCTV this month for a range of UCSF programs that explore these amazing developments and the dangerous territory that comes with them.
Exposure to hot baths or hot tubs can lead to male infertility, but the effects can sometimes be reversible, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco urologist.
A large crowd gathered at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco recently to learn how to be healthy and wealthy.
Finding new drugs is sometimes like counting grains of sand...
Singer Tracy Chapman will be the featured performer at this year's annual fundraising event to benefit the Women's HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF has developed a bold, new plan to advance its longstanding commitment to excellence and diversity.
Young faculty interested in male hormone problems, sexual dysfunction, infertility and related topics are sought for a new career training program at UCSF.
John K. Chan, MD, has been named the new chief of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine.
Pediatric surgeon Hanmin Lee, MD, of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, operated on newborn Arissa Mangewala to correct a birth defect where her intestines protruded outside her body. Arissa just celebrated her first birthday, and her parents feel blessed she has a healthy future ahead of her.
The initial member of a team developing the first headache clinic in the West with an inpatient component for diagnosis and treatment has arrived at UCSF.
"Sometimes it helps to have a 'cheat sheet' when you are working on a problem as difficult as deciphering the relationships among hundreds of thousands of genes. At least that's the idea behind a powerful new technique developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers to analyze how genes function together inside cells.
<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> writer Katherine Nichols' interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease, stems from her experience with a loved one who suffers from the disease.
Carroll Estes, Dixie Horning and Maureen Shannon will receive the 2007 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women on March 26.
A study underway at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and UCSF is probing the connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbances and stress hormones. Investigators hope the study will reveal a new potential method for treating PTSD, as well as shed light on the biology of sleep
Dean Kathleen Dracup says the UCSF School of Nursing must prepare for student enrollment growth and the eventual retirement of its aging faculty.
The new HPV vaccine is the first one for girls only, and the first immunization recommended for children to protect against a sexually transmitted virus. But the vaccine also has global implications—cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women in developing countries, and in some countries, young men are being vaccinated as well.
Ten years ago Thursday, the public learned that Scottish scientists had cloned a sheep. On NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, UCSF stem cell scientists Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD, and Susan Fisher, PhD, spoke with science reporter Joe Palca about their efforts to study the human embryo in a difficult political climate, and confirm that cloned human embryos will inevitably produce stem cell therapies.
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Carlos Muñoz Jr. will talk about the struggle for a multicultural democracy today at noon.
Samantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.
Research at the University of California, San Francisco found a racial disparity in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
If you could learn your odds of getting cancer, heart disease or diabetes, would you? A new generation of home genetic testing kits allows anybody with a cotton swab and a mailbox to find out. But does convenience come with a privacy risk?
Moviemaking must be an art, because it usually gets the science all wrong...
Some say extended cycle birth control pills are revolutionizing contraception for many women because it provides fewer periods, which means less pain, PMS and inconvenience, but is it safe? UCSF neuropsychiatrist and female hormone specialist Louann Brizendine, MD, says various forms of extended cycle pills have been used for years.
Chief surgeon William Schecter received the 2007 Special Hero Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently.
Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.
KPIX-TV's <i>HealthWatch</i> reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.