UCSF Team Takes Third Place in AIDS Walk San Francisco
<p>The UCSF team came in third place overall in AIDS Walk San Francisco 2011 raising $55,000 in the annual event to benefit HIV/AIDS programs and services in the San Francisco Bay Area.</p>
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UC Experts Explain Radiation Risks - Real and Relative
<p>UC scientists explain radiation risks from everyday background radiation, medical imaging and nuclear power plant accidents in the aftermath of meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan.</p>
Global Health Leaders Urge Graduates to Work Toward Health Equity
<p>UCSF leaders in Global Health Sciences urged the graduating class of global health scholars to work toward achieving health care equity around the world.</p>
Sepulveda Delivers Commencement Address to Global Health Scholars
<p>Jaime Sepúlveda, who will join the University as executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences on September 1, delivered a commencement address to the 2011 Class of Masters of Sciences in Global Health.</p>
Seeing a Health Expert Leads to Higher Rate of Flu Shots
As flu season approaches, health care providers need to do more to improve rates of influenza immunizations in lower-income communities, according to new research that identifies the factors that most influence when people obtain flu shots.
SFGH Trauma Surgeon Works to Prevent Injuries in San Francisco
<p>San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker, who has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles, is working with city officials to help make the streets of San Francisco safer.</p>
NBC Nightly News Profiles UCSF's Oldest Professor
<p>NBC Nightly News profiled UCSF's longest tenured professor Ephraim P. Engleman, a centenarian who remarkably still treats patients at UCSF.</p>
UCSF Team Shows Spirit at AIDS Walk San Francisco
<p>The UCSF team showed its spirit in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, which drew more than 25,000 walkers and raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS programs and services in the Bay Area.</p>
Brain Research at UCSF Aims to Help Distracted Remember
<p>UCSF cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley has used functional brain imaging and EEG studies to discover that older adults fare worse than younger adults at remembering following distractions. He hopes to improve their performance with cognitive training, using a newly developed video game.</p>
Translational Research Begins to Explain Chronic Health Problems Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
<p>Janice Humphreys, a associate professor of Family Health Care Nursing, is working with an interdisciplinary group of UCSF colleagues to study the long-term health and aging effects of intimate partner violence with funding made possible by UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.</p>
NIH Director Says Timing Right to Reengineer Translational Science
<p>Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describes the scientific goals and functions of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a proposed new entity of the NIH that will strive to reengineer the process of developing drugs, diagnostics, and devices. </p>