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With the most recent edition of the hottest sports video game in the nation hitting store shelves in August, UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD, knows that for some gamers, the release of <i>Madden NFL 07</i> for the Sony PlayStation 2 means more than just armchair blocking and rushing.
Two UCSF nurses don't consider themselves heroes for helping two people injured in Tuesday's hit-and-run rampage in San Francisco.
Violent video games create more permissive attitudes toward risky behaviors – such as using drugs – in youths who play those games, according to a study by UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD.
Pregnant women who seek prenatal diagnostic testing to identify genetic or chromosomal abnormalities have a lower risk of miscarriage than previously believed, according to a UCSF study.
<i>City Visions</i> host Yumi Wilson interviews Dr. Louann Brizendine, MD, director and founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, about her book <i>The Female Brain</i>, in which Brizendine claims the foundation of the differences between men and women are biological.
The campus has named the 2006 scholars for the UCSF Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholars Program.
Even for outer space fanatics, reality must sometimes strike. From Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica, humans have shown the rather unearthly ability to race across the cosmos with little impact on their health other than the occasional phaser blast. What is an easily overlooked detail for screenwriters, however, can be a painful fact to real astronauts and shuttle pilots.
The latest rankings rate UCSF ninth among universities worldwide – pretty impressive. Although the rankings – produced by <i>Newsweek International</i> – are among the first-ever international comparisons, there now are a rapidly growing number of groups across the globe that are developing university rankings – and the methods used often are criticized.
Google chef Nate Keller will give a private cooking demonstration as part of a September 16 fundraiser for the San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Recovery Center.
Primary care medicine faces a serious crisis that could threaten the health of millions of Americans, according to a UCSF health policy expert.
On Wednesday, August 23, Rebecca Smith, co-director of the Science and Health Education Partnership — a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District — and Theresa O'Brien from the UCSF Graduate Students' Association spoke with <i>Your Call</i> host Rose Aguilar about science education in the Bay Area and the new science high school at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan
UCSF police on Saturday arrested John Tobias, who was reportedly found in possession of stolen property in the Medical Sciences Building.
Part of a series marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, an article in Monday's <i>Vallejo Times-Herald </i>profiles some of those who participated in volunteer missions to aid hurricane victims.
One of the world's most prominent health care leaders, Sir Liam Donaldson, MSc, MD, chief medical officer of the United Kingdom and founding chair of the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety, gave a talk on Monday, Aug. 28, about medical errors and approaches to hospital safety.
UCSF wants to know what people think about campus life at various satellite sites, like Laurel Heights.
UCSF Cancer Resource Center will host "Living and Laughing with Cancer: An Evening of Improvisational Theater" on Thursday, September 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Auxiliary of UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion is not letting a recent setback keep it from its century-old tradition of supporting patients.
Patients taking the acne medication isotretinoin, commonly marketed as Accutane, may develop elevated cholesterol levels and liver enzyme levels.
As a lifelong baseball fan, Richard J. Cohen, MD, a practicing oncologist in San Francisco and clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, is no stranger to seeing baseball played from a field-level view.
On Wednesday, August 23, KQED-FM's <em>Forum</em> with Michael Krasny discussed new research into the effect of stress on heart attacks, particularly among women, with Brian Strunk, MD, chief of the cardiovascular division at Marin General Hospital and associate clinical professor at UCSF.
Our first volunteer is Louann Brizendine, MD. Brizendine completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine, did graduate work in London at UCL in Philosophy of Mind and History of Science and Medicine, and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
One of the world's most prominent health care leaders will visit UCSF and share his insights on patient safety from a global perspective and the latest approaches to hospital safety and policy. The talk is open to the public.
A study published in the August 24 edition of the journal <em>Nature</em> describes a technique that could derive human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo.
Patients benefit best from medications when they take the right medicines at the right dose and at the right time.
UCSF is expanding its mentoring opportunities for junior and new faculty, including offering training for mentors and awards for excellence in mentoring.
UCSF's ninth-place ranking in <em>Newsweek International's</em> list of the top 100 global universities is based on a number of different measures.
Using standards that measure a university's openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research, <i>Newsweek International </i>has ranked UCSF ninth among the top 100 global universities.
A pioneering UCSF pediatrician reflects upon medical advances decades after seeing the very first children infected with HIV.