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Employees to Contribute More to UC Retirement Plan on July 1
<p>Faculty, staff and UC will contribute more to the UC Retirement Plan beginning July 1, 2012.</p>
Preventing or Better Managing Diabetes May Prevent Cognitive Decline, According to UCSF Study
Preventing diabetes or delaying its onset has been thought to stave off cognitive decline -- a connection strongly supported by the results of a 9-year study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Among Asian Americans
<p>Liver cancer is expected to become more common in the United States in coming years. “It’s deadly and it’s preventable,” says UCSF physician and researcher Tung Nguyen, MD.</p>
Hepatitis: UCSF and San Francisco at Ground Zero
<p>Viral hepatitis chronically infects between 3.5 and 5.2 million people in the U.S. and more than 30,000 in San Francisco, alone — but only about one in three people who are infected know it, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p>
Hepatitis C: Urgency to Fight Viral Foe Grows in the Suburbs and on the Streets
<p>At the edge of a San Francisco neighborhood that has been riddled with drug addiction for decades, UCSF epidemiologist Kimberly Page, PhD, MPS, leads a research team that provides outreach, screening and prevention programs for drug users, those who are especially vulnerable to hepatitis C infection.</p>
