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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Is Kabbalah Relevant to Healing?
After a spate of popularity in the 1970s, Kabbalah, an aspect of Jewish mysticism, has once again become fashionable. But do its tenets have any relevance to health care providers?
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Angela Davis Calls for Heightened Consciousness of Common Destiny
Activist Angela Davis delivered a powerful keynote address to close a two-day symposium presented by the UCSF Center for Gender Equity.
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One fourth of older hospital patients receive unnecessary catheters
A study of 1,586 hospitalized patients age 70 and older at two Ohio hospitals indicates that 24 percent were given medically unnecessary urinary catheters, according to investigators led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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UCSF Hosts Pilot Program to Educate Bay Area Ministers About Prostate Cancer
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UCSF holds "Heart Health Today" workshop on women's heart disease risks
A lecture presented in Cantonese aimed at helping Chinese and Chinese-American women understand women's risk of heart disease will be the focal point of a free workshop on women's heart health
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Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists
Recruitment and retention of women in science have always been an uphill battle.
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Potential New Treatment Strategy Identified for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain and Spinal Cord
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
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Women Convene for Two-Day Leadership Symposium
Experts in leadership, negotiation, communication and finance will gather today and tomorrow for a Symposium for Women in University Settings.
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New Child Growth Charts To Help UCSF Pediatricians Teach About Obesity
Newly released World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards for infants and young children aim to give "guidance on how every child in the world should grow."