UCSF Faculty Seek Greater Support for Biomedical Research
More than 400 faculty members at UCSF are asking for more financial support for the National Institutes of Health.
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Campus Develops Strategic Plan to Guide its Future
UCSF is tapping the wealth of knowledge, experience, and perspective of the UCSF community to develop a comprehensive strategic plan.
Family In Race For Cure of Hurler's Syndrome
An East Bay family is turning its personal tragedy into a campaign to save others from the same fate.
Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought
Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.
Academic Senate Names Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer
Critical care expert Michael Matthay has been selected to deliver the Sixth Annual Distinguished Clinical Research Lectureship on October 17.
Improving Nutrition Begins With Small Steps
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny discussed supermarket grocery pricing, availability, and quality with Toby Morris, a registered dietician at UCSF Medical Center.
UCSF Blogs: Our Mann in Munich
UCSF director of university publications Jeff Miller is attending the EuroScience Open Forum. From Munich, Miller blogs his experiences and observations.
UCSF Opens Pediatric MS Center
Early this year, the UCSF Medical Center opened a Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center to address the needs of patients and their families.
UCSF's Kriegstein Weighs In on Reasons to Expand Federal Stem Cell Funding
Five years after President George W. Bush announced limited funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the US Senate takes up a bill today that would significantly expand that funding.
The Premature Birth Problem
<i>Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention</i>, a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, shows that 12.5 percent of births in the United States in 2004 were preterm, a 30 percent increase over the 1981 rate.
UCSF AIDS Expert Discusses Once-Daily HIV Pill
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, discusses Wednesday's federal approval of a single pill, taken once daily, that combines three drugs used to treat HIV.
Legacy Foundation Honors UCSF Tobacco Researcher
Ruth Malone, whose research focuses on studies using tobacco industry documents, was honored July 12 by the American Legacy Foundation.
UCSF Researchers Report on Trends in Personal Assistance Supply and Demand
H. Stephen Kaye, Susan Chapman, Robert Newcomer and Charlene Harrington used data from two federal surveys of the U.S. population to assess both the size of the workforce providing paid personal assistance services and the relative growth of that workforce compared with the population needing such services.
GCRC Nurse Wins DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Jocelia Adams, RN, a nurse who works in the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), has been named this month's winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has shown that extremely low doses of estrogen had no ill effects on the cognitive abilities or general health of older women over the course of two years.