Transition of Kaiser Kidney Transplant Patients to UCSF Begins
UCSF Medical Center has begun the process of accepting some 1,500 Kaiser Permanente patients into its Kidney Transplant Service.
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Miss America Visits UCSF Children's Hospital
Miss America 2006 took time out on Tuesday to cheer up a few ailing youngsters at UCSF Children's Hospital.
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UCSF to Host Lecture on Asian American Health
A national expert will deliver a lecture on current issues in Asian health at UCSF on June 19.
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Individualized Approach is Key to UCSF's Heart Transplant Success
A core group of UCSF cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiologists has created a growing heart transplantation program with excellent survival statistics by focusing on the particular needs of individual patients and using technology to prepare them for surgery.
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UCSF Lung Transplantation Program Growing Rapidly
Last year, UCSF thoracic transplant surgeons implanted more than 50 lungs, making the UCSF program one of the largest programs in California.
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UCSF School of Nursing: Helping the Homeless at Glide Health Clinic
The Glide clinic is a great example of the value of a nursing model to care for people with chronic illness.
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UCSF Researchers Identify Genes Associated with Lung Transplant Rejection
Researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have identified six genes associated with lymphocytic bronchitis, which is thought to lead to obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), the most common cause of long-term failure of transplanted lungs.
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Children and Sleep: UCSF Pediatrician Supports Softening of Ferber "Rule"
In his 1985 bestseller <i>Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems</i>, Richard Ferber, MD, took on one of the most controversial questions that pediatricians are asked to address: whether or not infants should sleep in a crib alone or be allowed to "co-sleep" with their parents.
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New council promotes partnerships between UCSF and community
A new advisory council at UCSF will focus on strengthening the links between the University and the community.
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PLUS Program: Reaching out to Youth in Bayview-Hunters Point
A joint effort of a dozen local community groups is making a difference in the health of kids in Bayview-Hunters Point.
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Media invited to UCSF Firefly Project on May 31
The Firefly Project is a free event that features a live reading of letters composed this year by critically ill patients and their healthy teenage pen pals.
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UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program: Helping Disadvantaged Students Achieve Their Potential
UCSF welcomed students from Fresno's Sunnyside High School recently.
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UCSF's Molly Cooke, Paul Volberding in PBS' "Age of AIDS"
Molly Cooke, UCSF professor of clinical medicine and director of the Academy of Medical Educators, will be one of the featured clinicians on PBS' Frontline series, "The Age of AIDS."
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Chronic Pain Targets Baby Boomers
A great deal of attention is being paid this year to Americans who are turning 60, the first of the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964.
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Gladstone Institutes: Sparking Interest in Science
The Gladstone Institute's many civic contributions include advancing scientific knowledge through free public lectures, such as one on stem cell science and politics slated for June 7.
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UCSF in the Community: An Obligation and Opportunity
UCSF Today debuts a series of stories this week offering just a glimpse of the many community-based activities in which UCSF faculty, staff and students are engaged.
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Ponton Provides New Perspectives and Solutions Regarding Adolescent Risky Behavior
Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers.
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Lower literacy means poor health and poor health care access for older people
People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability
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UCSF Forms University-Community Partnerships Council
UCSF has formed a council to help identify needs and develop initiatives to create a more robust community partnership program.
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Miss America 2006 to visit school at UCSF Children's Hospital
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Scientists Ponder Human Impacts of Synthetic Biology
UCSF scientist Chris Voigt, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and others shared the latest triumphs in synthetic biology.
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Results of clipping and coiling of aneurysms are similar over time
A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.
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SPCA 'Heart Specialists' Promote Healing at UCSF Children's Hospital
Even kids who are very ill benefit from a brief moment of pet therapy.
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Can Being Happy Make You Live Longer?
Recent reports from the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere have quantified the health benefits of happiness.
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UCSF Names Community Partnerships Director
A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
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Hunters Point Family Agency Honors Milliken
Nancy Milliken, MD, was praised recently for her contributions to the community-based agency that serves San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point.
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Police Arrest Past President of Mount Zion Auxiliary
UCSF Police today arrested the past president of the Mount Zion auxiliary on charges of grand theft and forgery.
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Hundreds Attend UCSF's Largest Earth Fest Event
Members of the campus and community at large learned how to live greener lives at UCSF's Earth Fest last Thursday.
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O'Farrell's Gels Blazed New Pathways
More than 30 years ago, when still a graduate student at University of Colorado, UCSF biochemist Patrick O'Farrell, PhD, invented a way to separate proteins from one another in biological samples, a technique called high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
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Medical Center Honors Faculty, Staff
Faculty and staff were praised recently for taking the extra step in contributing to the success of UCSF Medical Center.