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Child's Illness Fuels Search for Early-life Epilepsy Diagnostics
<p>When Ramon Birnbaum, <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr>, came to <abbr title="University of California, San Francisco">UCSF</abbr> three years ago to do his postdoctoral work on the role of genetic regulation in human disease in the lab of School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, <abbr title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</abbr>, epilepsy was barely on his radar.</p>
California Physicians Unprepared for Electronic Health Record Regulations, According to UCSF Report
Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according to a report from UCSF researchers.
Consortium of Scientists Map the Human Body's Bacterial Ecosystem
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes participated in the national Human Microbiome Project, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve the understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.
UCSF Researchers Identify A Potential New HIV Vaccine/Therapy Target
After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain type of immune cell in their gut than others had much lower levels of the virus in their blood, and for six months after infection were better able to control the virus.
'Thin Red Line' Around Breast Cancer
A pioneering approach to imaging breast cancer in mice has revealed new clues about why the human immune system often fails to attack tumors and keep cancer in check. This observation, by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), may help to reveal new approaches to cancer immunotherapy.
UCSF Professor Elected To National Academy of Sciences
UCSF neurologist Louis Ptacek, MD, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), for his research on the biology and genetics of several human diseases and disorders -- from epilepsy and migraine to sleep disorders and jet lag.
UCSF Chancellor Discusses "New Social Contract" for Patients with The Wall Street Journal
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann spoke with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/17/working-toward-a-new-social-contract-for-health-care/" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> reporter Amy Marcus about her vision of a “new social contract” for patients participating in the health care system.</p>
Value of Genomics and Personalized Medicine Is Wrongly Downplayed
<p>A recent <em>New York Times</em> online headline, "Study Says DNA's Power to Predict Illness is Limited," explains that your genome is not your destiny. Who’d have thought? Many scientific experts in human genetics, for starters.</p>
UCSF Project Yields Major Resource for Scientific Research
One of the ultimate ways of understanding what impact any particular gene has in human health or disease is to disrupt it—knocking it down or wiping it out in a worm, fly or mouse and gauging what happens next.