UCSF Plays Significant Role in Stem Cell Research
With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.
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Elizabeth Fair: Making a Greater Impact in Global Health
UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.
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Jim Wells: Helping to Fill the Drug Discovery Pipeline
Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.
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Giving Sight to the Blind: Children's Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmologist Treats Patients in Vietnam
Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.
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Kavita Mishra: Following her Family's Footsteps into Medicine
Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.
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UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center: 'Winning the War' on Breast Cancer
Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.
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UCSF 101: Campus at the Crossroads
UCSF Today highlights a few of the people and programs that make this University a place of hope and promise.
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Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: Leading the Health Care Revolution
Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.
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Bring Back the Ivory Tower, Part 2 of 2
Ken Dill believes biology needs a shot in the arm, a theoretical boost of the first magnitude. And to make that leap scientists need to get off the treadmill, step out of the stream, dream a little again.
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Study: Vegetables May Help Keep Brains Young
New research from the National Institute on Aging found that eating vegetables could help keep our brains younger. Howard Rosen, MD, professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, talks about the study with KPIX Health and Science correspondent Dr. Kim Mulvihill.
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UCSF Doctor Explores North Korea
Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.
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Tour new cardiac labs at UCSF that
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Center for Health and Community: Addressing Issues that Affect Public Health
For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.
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UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor Named One of 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology
A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.
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Inside the Female Brain
Louann Brizendine, MD, is director and founder of the Women and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, at UCSF, the first clinic in the country devoted to the study of women, and their mental, sexual and physical health. Brizendine is one of the country's foremost neuropsychiatric experts, best know for her ground-breaking work in the field of female neurology, and now, for her much-lauded book, <i>The Female Brain</i>.
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Fetal Treatment Center Patients Reunite at UCSF
Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.
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Evaluating Risks of Surgery for Sleep Apnea
Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during the night due to upper airway obstruction. This condition is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight and over the age of 40, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.
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UCSF Educator to Receive Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.
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Children's Hospital Welcomes Babies, Families to Reunion
Parents and their children were reunited with those who saved their lives at UCSF Children's Hospital on Saturday.
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UCSF Medical Center Named Among Top Hospitals for Quality
UCSF Medical Center was one of eight California acute care hospitals among the top 50 U.S. hospitals named by the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers that works to leverage employer purchasing power to promote high quality health care.
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Kid-Safe Foods
The Institute of Medicine has released a report about which fish are the most healthy for kids. Cheryl Davis, RD, CNSD, a pediatric nutritionist at the University of California, San Francisco, was interviewed on what types of meat also are good to feed children.
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UCSF Prepares for the Flu, Locally and Globally
UCSF is not only addressing influenza on a local level, but is preparing for the possibility of an avian (bird) flu outbreak. More than 20 physicians, nurses and other members of the UCSF Medical Center, as well as members of the UC Police Department, campus Risk Management and Environmental Health & Safety, met on Sept. 29 to establish departmental plans in the event that someone arrives at UCSF Medical Center carrying the avian influenza virus, known as H5N1.
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Cancer Biology on the Naked Scientists Radio Show Podcast
On the Naked Science Radio Show Podcast, host Dr. Chris Smith interviews Gerard Evan, PhD, FRS, about the causes of cancer and how cancer spreads around the body.
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Pulitzer prize-winning authors to discuss "Father of Atomic Bomb"
Renowned historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin will discuss the scientific achievements and personal story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer at a special UCSF lecture on Friday, November 3. The event is free and open to the public.
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New joint chairs appointed for UCSF Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, and Neil Risch, PhD, have been appointed joint chairs of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCSF School of Medicine.
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Renowned Children's Hospital Surgeon Lauded by Pediatricians, Surgeons
The founder of fetal surgery, Michael Harrison, was honored recently by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons.
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UCSF Hosts Tomkins Concert & Lecture Today
The campus community is invited to the annual Tomkins Concert & Lecture today in Genentech Hall at UCSF Mission Bay.
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On the Spot: Dr. Lustig Responds
As part of our new On the Spot web feature, Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH), agreed to answer your questions.
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UCSF names new Chair of Department of Laboratory Medicine
Clifford A. Lowell, MD, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. He will assume his post November 1.
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UCSF names new Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
Thomas Parker Vail, MD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UCSF School of Medicine. He will assume his new post in January 2007.