UCSF’s Eric Goosby Appointed UN Special Envoy for Tuberculosis
UC San Francisco’s Eric Goosby, MD, who led the Obama administration’s efforts on HIV/AIDS, has been appointed to a new position as United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis.
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Give to UCSFUC San Francisco’s Eric Goosby, MD, who led the Obama administration’s efforts on HIV/AIDS, has been appointed to a new position as United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis.
UCSF Medical Center and Community Medical Centers have signed a letter of intent to expand women’s and children’s services to the Central Valley, which has an undersupply of specialists for a growing population.
Open communication and a free flow of information represent the “magic pill” needed to improve many of the issues in health care related to safety, according to a new report released by the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute.
A miniscule cluster of estrogen-producing nerve cells in the mouse brain exerts highly specific effects on aggressive behavior in both males and females.
UCSF’s Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology allows residents to do an international rotation to train doctors in the developing world, where traffic accidents are one of the most common causes of hospitalization.
Genes are important, but diet may be even more important in determining the relative abundance of the hundreds of health-shaping bacterial species comprising an individual’s gut microbiota, according to UCSF scientists.
With advances in technology and better understanding of people, the health sciences are constantly pushing toward more effective treatments and cures. The question is, where will we see the next breakthroughs in 2015?
More than 1,000 employees who are scheduled to work at the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay were treated to a special employees-only event on Dec. 3.
An American doctor who contracted Ebola while caring for patients in Sierra Leone spoke at UCSF about his experience after a touch-and-go, 40-day battle with the virus.
In the most comprehensive look yet at the safety of abortion, researchers at UCSF have concluded that major complications are rare, occurring less than a quarter of a percent of the time.
San Francisco children living in non-redeveloped public housing are 39 percent more likely to repeatedly visit emergency rooms, according to new research from UCSF and UC Berkeley.
UCSF has been designated by federal officials as an Ebola treatment center - the only medical center in San Francisco to earn the designation.
In honor of UCSF’s 150th anniversary, UCSF Magazine traces the battle with tuberculosis, a disease that’s woven into San Francisco’s and the University's history.