Two Major Seismic Projects Set to Begin on Parnassus Campus
UCSF is now set to begin two major construction projects involving the Medical Sciences Building and Moffitt Hospital.
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Give to UCSFUCSF is now set to begin two major construction projects involving the Medical Sciences Building and Moffitt Hospital.
Sleep disorder expert Tom Neylan explains what you lose if you don't snooze...
From meeting Annie Leibovitz to appearing on <i>Oprah</i>, UCSF's Wendy Katzman reflects on what it's like to be a celebrity.
For the Australian Broadcasting Company, Robyn Williams interviews Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, about her work on telomeres, aging, stress, and about her involvement with politics—and her falling out with President George W. Bush—when she was part of the President's Council on Bioethics. Blackburn says she saw science presented in an unbalanced way and evidence ignored.
Andrew Parsa, MD, PhD, speaks with host Norman Swan of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio show, <i>The Health Report</i>, about an experimental immunological treatment for the malignant brain tumor known as glioblastoma.
UCSF Director of LGBTI Resources Shane Snowdon called for open and honest communication to get equitable health care at last week's national summit.
Don't think twice, phone the ambulance about heart attack symptoms, UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathleen Dracup told Australian audiences on March 19, in an interview with host Norman Swan of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's radio show, <i>The Health Report</i>.
Treating pediatric asthma has long been appreciated as a complex endeavor requiring the collaboration of children, their families, health care providers and school officials, among others.
UCSF medical school Professor and Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Paul D. Blanc, MD, is a guest on AM1090 Seattle's <i>Eco Talk </i>program, to discuss his book <i>How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace </i> (University of California Press).
UCSF was the biggest winner of grants awarded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Friday, with seven grants worth nearly $17.4 million, and an additional $1.1 million going to UCSF and UC Irvine researchers for grants that had not been approved by the institute last month but were funded under the previous outlays. All of the new grants will fund "mature, ongoing studies," according to the stem cell institute.
Dixie Horning, a national leader in women's health, received the Helen Rodriguez-Trias Social Justice Award recently.
The University of California (UC) today joined a consortium of leading scientific and medical institutions around the country to warn that persistent flat-funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such devastating diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
Keith Armstrong, LCSW, co-author of the book <i>Courage After Fire</i>, which explores how troops readjust to civilian life after battle, talks about how to reach troubled soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who may be extremely reluctant to receive therapy.
Nominations are due April 17 for UCSF's first Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award.