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.
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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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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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Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists
Recruitment and retention of women in science have always been an uphill battle.
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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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UCSF Opens First Asian Heart and Vascular Center in the United States
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center, located at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, held its grand opening celebration.
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Campus Gears Up for AIDS Walk in Friendly Contest for Trophy
Members of the campus are invited to join a UCSF team in a friendly bid to win the AIDS walk trophy after the annual trek on July 16.
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UCSF Autism Expert Sees Decline in Hype and Hysteria
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
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New compound unusually potent at blocking brain cancer growth
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Dean to Deliver State of Nursing School Address Today
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathy Dracup will talk about priorities and challenges in a state of the school address this Friday.
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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."
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UCSF study to examine whether probiotics can prevent asthma in children
In the first effort of its kind in the United States, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have launched a study to determine whether giving active probiotic supplements to infants can delay or prevent asthma in children.
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Tsien Talks Signals and Probes During Gladstone Distinguished Lecture
What happens to molecules in time and space during interesting cellular processes?
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UCSF Names New Fellows for Two Research Programs
UCSF has named 15 new fellows as part of two research programs and is hosting the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students Seminar on May 17.
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Google Taps UCSF as a Health Information Provider
UCSF.edu was one of seven sites selected by Google, Inc. as a health directory partner.
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Scientists discover two genes linked to early heart attack risk
Scientists at UCSF, Celera Genomics and The Cleveland Clinic have discovered two gene variants associated with a significantly increased risk for early heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI).
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Mumps Q & A with Infectious Disease Expert
Parents should make sure that all their children of any age are fully immunized for mumps and other vaccine-preventable diseases, a UCSF expert says.