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Registration is underway for the San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Training Program to be offered for free to UCSF staff.
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UCSF Pharmacy School receives major grant from Amgen Foundation for Medicare Part D outreach
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has received a $3.7 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to fund an innovative program that will help underserved elderly Californians learn about and select from Medicare prescription drug plans.
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Nominations Sought for Advancing Women Award
Nominations for the Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women are due on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.
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Patients' requests for antidepressants can influence physician evaluation of depression
Patients who initiate a general discussion about the need for antidepressant medication with their primary care physician are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand-specific request or no request
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UCSF Pediatrics Residents Join African AIDS Corps
A group of young physicians are delivering care abroad in HIV/AIDS while supporting local training initiatives to enhance sustainability.
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Center Offers Introduction to Kids at UCSF Day
Those interested in offering children a look behind the scenes at this health sciences campus are invited to learn more about Kids at UCSF Day on Monday.
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Medical Student with Camera Follows as a Man Donates Part of His Liver to His Mother
Second-year medical student Harras Zaid has seen his share of organ transplants. Under the wing of UCSF transplant surgeons, he has traveled to distant hospitals to observe as the body of a person whose life has ended gives up the organs that will save or enhance many other lives.
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UCSF Children's Hospital, hospice to benefit from film screening
UCSF Children's Hospital and George Mark Children's House residential hospice will each benefit from an advance screening of the live-action remake of E.B. White's classic novel "Charlotte's Web"
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New Imaging System a "First" for Spine Surgery in the Western United States
The UCSF Spine Center recently acquired a new imaging system that will assist surgeons in navigation techniques and help the center expand and enhance surgical procedures. The technology is the first of its kind in the western United States.
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Chile Warms to UCSF Science: A Conversation with Graduate Student Monica Rodrigo-Brenni
A graduate student's love of science needs no translation in Chile — or San Francisco.
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Innovative NIH Transition Program Recognizes Four UCSF Postdocs
Four promising postdoctoral scientists will receive both mentored and independent research support from a new National Institutes of Health award.
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UCSF to report on women's health
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Number of Teens Abusing Cough Medicine Soars
Ilene B. Anderson, PharmD, reports in the December <i>Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine</i> that the number of California teenagers using over-the-counter cough medicines to get high has soared in recent years, mirroring a national trend.
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Are Most Lung Cancer Deaths Among Long-Term Smokers Preventable with Affordable Screening?
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UCSF Partners with City CarShare Program
Faculty, staff and students now have one more reason to sign up for the City CareShare program.
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Adolescent abuse of over-the-counter cold medicine soars
Abuse of a drug found in popular over-the-counter cough and cold medicines has soared in recent years, particularly among adolescents, according to an analysis of phone calls received by the statewide California Poison Control System.
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Police Report Peeping Tom at Parnassus Campus
UCSF police report that a man watched a woman as she took a shower in the Millberry Union Fitness Center last Wednesday evening.
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Women's Health to Offer Series on Aging Gracefully
A three-session seminar series on aging gracefully begins on December 12.
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Common PTSD drug is no more effective than placebo
Guanfacine, a medication commonly prescribed to alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, is no more effective than a placebo, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Papers of UCSF Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus Added to NLM Profiles in Science Website
<i>National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, December 1, 2006</i> - The National Library of Medicine, a part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today the release of an extensive selection from the papers of molecular biologist and science administrator, Harold Varmus, on its Profiles in Science website.
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Special "Nutcracker" for patients at UCSF Children's Hospital
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UCSF Ophthalmologist Gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Eye doctor Richard Abbott was recently honored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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Study: Women Talk 3 Times More than Men
Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, talks about her book <em>The Female Brain</em> and the brain chemistry that explains why women talk more than men.
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Campus Shows Signs of the Season
A two-day shopping spree, free concerts and a tree-trimming party are among the activities the campus community can enjoy this holiday season.
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"Cancer prognosis gene" found to control the fate of breast cells
Scientists have discovered an unsuspected role for a gene known to be one of the best predictors of human breast cancer outcome.
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Children's Hospital Patients Receive Gift of Reading
Pediatric patients received an early gift in the form of books donated to UCSF Children's Hospital.
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San Francisco Union Square's Lights Represent Sick Children at UCSF
Macy's tree-lighting ceremony took place Friday night, with each light representing a donation to programs for children facing life-threatening illnesses at UCSF Children's Hospital.
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Ripped from the Headlines: Editor's Notes on the Life and Death of Science
Will science stew or bubble over as the winter of 2006 takes hold?
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Costa Rican Family Celebrates First Thanksgiving
Pediatric heart surgeon Tom Karl, MD, MS, checks up on his patient, 6-month-old Valentina Guzman, diagnosed with a very complicated cardiac condition and originally given two years to live. Valentina's parents brought her from Costa Rica to UCSF Children's Hospital, which donated much of the time, expertise and equipment so the Guzmans could afford the surgery.
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UCSF study will test new vaginal microbicide for herpes and HIV
A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in the first U.S. study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to prevent herpes and HIV infecti