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Campus Develops Strategic Plan to Guide its Future
UCSF is tapping the wealth of knowledge, experience, and perspective of the UCSF community to develop a comprehensive strategic plan.
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UCSF Faculty Seek Greater Support for Biomedical Research
More than 400 faculty members at UCSF are asking for more financial support for the National Institutes of Health.
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Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought
Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.
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UCSF's Kriegstein Weighs In on Reasons to Expand Federal Stem Cell Funding
Five years after President George W. Bush announced limited funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the US Senate takes up a bill today that would significantly expand that funding.
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UCSF Opens Pediatric MS Center
Early this year, the UCSF Medical Center opened a Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center to address the needs of patients and their families.
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The Premature Birth Problem
<i>Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention</i>, a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, shows that 12.5 percent of births in the United States in 2004 were preterm, a 30 percent increase over the 1981 rate.
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UCSF Blogs: Our Mann in Munich
UCSF director of university publications Jeff Miller is attending the EuroScience Open Forum. From Munich, Miller blogs his experiences and observations.
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Academic Senate Names Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer
Critical care expert Michael Matthay has been selected to deliver the Sixth Annual Distinguished Clinical Research Lectureship on October 17.
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Improving Nutrition Begins With Small Steps
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny discussed supermarket grocery pricing, availability, and quality with Toby Morris, a registered dietician at UCSF Medical Center.
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Legacy Foundation Honors UCSF Tobacco Researcher
Ruth Malone, whose research focuses on studies using tobacco industry documents, was honored July 12 by the American Legacy Foundation.
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UCSF AIDS Expert Discusses Once-Daily HIV Pill
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, discusses Wednesday's federal approval of a single pill, taken once daily, that combines three drugs used to treat HIV.
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GCRC Nurse Wins DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Jocelia Adams, RN, a nurse who works in the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), has been named this month's winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
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UCSF Researchers Report on Trends in Personal Assistance Supply and Demand
H. Stephen Kaye, Susan Chapman, Robert Newcomer and Charlene Harrington used data from two federal surveys of the U.S. population to assess both the size of the workforce providing paid personal assistance services and the relative growth of that workforce compared with the population needing such services.
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Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has shown that extremely low doses of estrogen had no ill effects on the cognitive abilities or general health of older women over the course of two years.
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Epilepsy Surgery Preserves Tradition, Prevents Seizures
Pediatric Neurosurgeon Victor Perry, MD, director of pediatric epilepsy surgery at UCSF, performs surgery on 15-year-old Sky Titus while perserving the family's Native American traditions.
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Depression Linked to Risky Teen Sex
A study by UCSF researcher Jocelyn Lehrer, ScD, and others suggests that sexually experienced middle school and high school teenagers with higher levels of depressive symptoms are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
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UCSF AIDS Walk Contest Reaches Final Stretch
Cookies, pies and peanut butter chocolate bars will be on sale tomorrow on the Parnassus campus to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Walk.
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UCSF Scientist and Colleagues Find We May Sleep Even Less than We Think
A paper published in the July 1, 2006, issue of American Journal of Epidemiology reports that early-middle-aged people (38-50 years) appear to sleep much less than they should, and even less than they think they do.
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Envisioning a Neuro ICU for Preemies at UCSF
Each year in the United States, approximately 80,000 children are born very prematurely.
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Endocrine Society Honors Pediatric Professor
A UCSF professor has received an award for defining the field of molecular steroidogenesis by integrating basic research with clinical observation.
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UCSF study shows suppression of telomerase enzyme can inhibit spread of melanoma
UCSF researchers have found that the spread of melanoma can be inhibited by suppressing telomerase, the enzyme active in cancer cell growth.
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Mission Bay Resumes Tours
Beginning Wednesday, July 19, Erin Escobar of the Office of Community and Government Relations will be leading weekly tours of our developing Mission Bay campus.
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Forum to Address Work and Integrity
Two members of the UCSF community will address "Work and Integrity" at a Carnegie Foundation forum at Stanford University on Tuesday.
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Staff Appreciation Events at Laurel Heights
A free, light breakfast and concert featuring koto player June Kuramoto are part of upcoming staff appreciation events at Laurel Heights.
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Microscopes Yield New Insight into Life and Death of Blood Vessels
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Cancer event focuses on education, inspiration and celebration September 9 and 10
The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center will co-sponsor a two-day celebration of life on Saturday and Sunday, September 9 and 10.
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UCSF Radiation Oncologists Named as ASTRO Fellows
Three members of the UCSF Department of Radiation Oncology have been selected to become fellows of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO), the society announced on June 28.
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Can Kenyon's Roundworms Lead Us to the Fountain of Youth?
UCSF Biochemistry and Biophysics Professor Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, presented her research on roundworms last week, revealing insights into the cellular mechanisms of aging.
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State Budget Means Raises for Faculty, Staff
UC will be able to give salary increases to eligible faculty and staff as part of a plan to make salaries more competitive over the next 10 years.