A study in the April 22, 2006, issue of Lancet 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Two hundred people witnessed the 2006 Global Life Science Innovation Competition Finals Event last Friday April 21 at the UCSF Mission Bay Community Center.

Chancellor Mike Bishop was among campus leaders to recognize and express appreciation for staff for their personal contributions and years of service to UCSF.

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