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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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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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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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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.
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Medical Computer Tablet May Replace Paper Hospital Charts
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.
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UCSF Names New Director of Facilities Management
Green building advocate Maric Munn has joined UCSF as the new Director of Facilities Management.
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Campus to Welcome Students from UCSF Fresno Doctors Academy
Nearly 35 graduating students in the Doctors Academy Program at Sunnyside High School in Fresno are headed to UCSF on Wednesday.
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Controversial Cancer Treatment Draws Some Overseas
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.
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UCSF on UCTV: The Promise and the Perils of Drug Development
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.
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Hot tubs hurt fertility, UCSF study shows
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.
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Health and Wealth Lecture Draws Many in Chinese Community
A large crowd gathered at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco recently to learn how to be healthy and wealthy.
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Hard Drugs: A Conversation with Pharmaceutical Chemist Tom James
Finding new drugs is sometimes like counting grains of sand...
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UCSF Women's HIV program announces March 20 benefit in San Francisco
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.
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UCSF Launches 10-Point Initiative to Promote Diversity
UCSF has developed a bold, new plan to advance its longstanding commitment to excellence and diversity.
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Junior Faculty Sought for Career Training in Male Reproductive Health Research
Young faculty interested in male hormone problems, sexual dysfunction, infertility and related topics are sought for a new career training program at UCSF.
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UCSF Names New Chief of Gynecologic Oncology
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.
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Surgery on the Smallest Patients
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.
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UCSF to Open the First Headache Clinic in the West with an Inpatient Component for Diagnosis and Tre
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.
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HHMI News: New Functional Atlas Gives the 411 on Gene Partners
"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.
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San Francisco Chronicle Explores "The Other Dementia"
<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.
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UCSF to Award Three for Advancing Women
Carroll Estes, Dixie Horning and Maureen Shannon will receive the 2007 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women on March 26.
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UCSF Researchers Seek Volunteers for Study on Connections Between Stress and Sleep
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
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Nursing School Plans for Enrollment Growth, Faculty Succession, Dean Says
Dean Kathleen Dracup says the UCSF School of Nursing must prepare for student enrollment growth and the eventual retirement of its aging faculty.
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The Facts Behind the HPV Vaccine
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.