UCSF Team Claims Prize in Life Science Competition
Two hundred people witnessed the 2006 Global Life Science Innovation Competition Finals Event last Friday April 21 at the UCSF Mission Bay Community Center.
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Avian Flu - Infected Birds to Appear in a Neighborhood Near You?
When UCSF hosted an avian flu symposium in December, outbreaks of the avian flu virus H5N1 were limited to China and Southeast Asia. The virus had killed dozens of people. Officials from those nations and the World Health Organization were grappling with how to cope and obtain funding.
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UCSF Medal to be awarded to four recipients at April 27 event
UCSF will honor four individuals with its highest honor – the UCSF Medal – at a special event on Thursday, April 27.
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Symptom Management Still a Primary Care
The overwhelming impact on people's lives — the way the disease remains a death sentence for so many in Africa — is reminiscent of 1985 here," says Holzemer
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Crisis in Primary Care Is Focus of UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Partnership
Two of the nation's leading health care institutions, the University of California, San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente, have formed a partnership to help solve problems related to the practice of primary care – an issue that poses a serious threat to the health of millions of Americans.
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UCSF's Jason Miller Helps Pen New Sudan Divestment Editorial
Often in our history college students have been ahead of governments in recognizing and fighting for important issues.
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Center of Excellence to Be Launched at April 25-26 Conference in San Francisco
Two of the nation's leading health care institutions, the University of California, San Francisco and Kaiser Permanente, have formed a partnership to help solve problems related to the practice of primary care - an issue that poses a serious threat to the health of millions of Americans.
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Remembering Felicia Stewart
A Letter from School of Medicine Dean David Kessler.
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UCSF Pharmacy Experts Offer Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan Advice as Deadline Looms
Marilyn Stebbins, clinical professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and Tim Cutler, assistant clinical professor, answer this latest round of Medicare Part D questions.
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UCSF Pharmacy experts counsel seniors on Medicare Part D April 29
The deadline for enrolling in the new Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Medicare Part D) program is May 15, and many Medicare-eligible seniors and people with disabilities are still confused or uncertain about the complex program. Many have not enrolled.
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UCSF Expert Defends Use of Abortion Drug
The deaths of two women who had reportedly used mifepristone (originally known as RU-486) to terminate their pregnancies have renewed questions about the drug's safety.
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UCSF sponsors Kids' Day to expose
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Two UCSF Scientists Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Two UCSF faculty scientists have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced on April 24, 2006.
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April 27 "Kids' Day" at UCSF will expose children to medical science
UCSF welcomes youngsters to "Kids' Day: Promoting Equity for Girls and Boys."
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Ethics Road Full of Sinkholes, Warn Two UCSF Legends
Famed UCSF biochemist Elizabeth Blackburn and legendary occupational health expert Joe LaDou advised graduate students to be wary of conflicts of interest and political and industry influence as they charged ahead with their careers.
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School of Nursing Tackles HIV/AIDS in Africa
Nonhlanhla Sukati, a nurse educator and researcher at the University of Swaziland, can't forget the face of a now-dead student nurse. It was ravaged not just by a dramatic rash – a herpes zoster caused by HIV/AIDS.
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UCSF to Survey Satellite Locations on Campus Life
In the first survey of its kind, UCSF wants to know what people think about Campus Life Services available at the satellite locations.
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Possible cause and potential treatment found for aggressive head and neck cancer
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center report that they have found a potential molecular cause for the aggressive growth and spread of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a highly malignant form of cancer with a very high death rate.
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First Global Life Science Competition to Reward Innovation
UCSF is well represented in the first Global Life Science Innovation Competition open to the public on April 21.
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Drazen Discusses Rise and Fall of Vioxx to Launch UCSF Lecture Series
Jeffrey M. Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), discussed the rise and fall of Vioxx and similar painkilling drugs at UCSF's Cole Hall Wednesday.
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Challenging Tobacco Industry in Latin America
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UCSF Exclusive: Never-before-published photo and 1906 Examiner story connect staff member to legenda
In April 1906, William H. Levings, grandfather to Susan Levings, associate dean, planning and communications in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was a veteran newspaperman for the San Francisco Examiner.
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Forearm supports reduce upper body pain linked to computer use
Providing forearm support is an effective intervention to prevent musculoskeletal disorders of the upper body and aids in reducing upper body pain associated with computer work, according to a study in The British Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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Can Ferries Save the Day?
A blue-ribbon task force, co-chaired by UCSF Vice Chancellor Bruce Spaulding, has recommended that water transportation be elevated to a prominent level in the Bay Area's emergency preparedness plans.
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Don't Forget UCSF's 1989 Earthquake Victims
UCSF's history is San Francisco's history. That was true in the 1906 earthquake and again in the 1989 Loma Prieta temblor.
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UCSF Invites the Public to Mini Medical School
"Bringing Science to Life: The Promise of Modern Medicine" is the theme of UCSF's Mini Medical School for the public, which begins May 3.
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Are We Destined to Gain Weight?
Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, studies weighty matters - the genetics of obesity. He has identified a mutated gene that is responsible for extreme obesity, at least in a rare and unfortunate few.
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Logo King
As the UCSF logo nears its 30th anniversary, designer Henry Wachs ponders art and the Russian Revolution.
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Mammography screenings for breast cancer show racial and ethnic disparities
Inadequate use of screening mammography may be an important reason that African-American women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer than members of other ethnic groups, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco imaging specialist.
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Hopes High as UCSF Breaks Ground for Cancer Research Building
Stormy skies gave way to sunshine as a symbol of hope for what's to come in cancer research at the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art facility at UCSF Mission Bay.