Video Features UCSF Medal Winners
A video depicting the four recipients of the UCSF Medal was featured at the Founders Day banquet at the-Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco last night.
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Comment Sought on Proposed Extension of Military Pay Policy
Faculty and academic appointees may comment on the proposed extension of the policy on supplement to military pay by Friday, May 12.
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Health Policy Expert Reads Mixed Signals on Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan
In the first interview with health policy expert Helene Levens Lipton, PhD, Professor of Health Policy in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy and the Institute for Health Policy Studies, she outlined the threat to independent pharmacies posed by slow and reduced reimbursement.
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Dental School to Offer Periodontal Medicine Course
Faculty clinicians from the schools of dentistry, medicine and nursing are welcome to attend a continuing education course on the implications of periodontal medicine in clinical practice.
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UCSF Neurologist Leads Study that Quantifies Benefits of Clinical Trials
A study in the April 22, 2006, issue of <i>Lancet</i> finds that estimated conservatively, the economic benefit in the United States from just eight National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials exceeded $15 billion over the course of 10 years.
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NIH wrongly blamed for reduced success rate of grant applications
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Mothers often have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body weight, study shows
Latina mothers of preschool-aged children frequently have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body mass index and believe they are healthy when they are overweight, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco.
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UCSF Home Health Care Partners on National Project
UCSF Home Health Care has announced that it is partnering with Lumetra, Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) in California and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Care Policy and Research (CHCPR) in a demonstration project aimed at reducing the number of avoidable hospitalizations for home health patients.
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A New Look for ucsf.edu
A year-long review of audience needs and wants, changing web trends and growing capabilities culminate today with the debut of a modified look and organization for www.ucsf.edu.
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UCSF Celebrates Milestone Service
Chancellor Mike Bishop was among campus leaders to recognize and express appreciation for staff for their personal contributions and years of service to UCSF.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.