Nurse Receives DAISY Award for Extraordinary Care
Samantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFSamantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.
KPIX-TV's <i>HealthWatch</i> reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.
Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center will be among the first health care workers to use a tablet-like PC called a mobile clinical assistant (MCA), developed specifically for medical professionals by Intel and Motion Computing. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.
The campus community is invited to celebrate Women's History Month in March, when UCSF hosts several events.
A memorial service will be held this Friday for Jere Edwin Goyan, PhD, former dean of UCSF's School of Pharmacy, who died Jan. 17.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended an event Friday where research grants for stem cell research were handed out. KGO-TV reports that now that grants have been given out there is still concern about how long it will take to make the research a reality.
The School of Pharmacy has joined in the effort to donate blood as a way to celebrate the centennial of the School of Nursing.
Media pioneer and author Jerri Lange will discuss the "Power, Magic and Imagination of the Media" at UCSF on today (Feb. 20.)
California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi visited UCSF last Friday when he heard about plans to build a new stem cell research building.
SAN FRANCISCO -- As evidence mounts that the body's normally protective inflammation response can drive some precancerous tissues to become fully malignant, UCSF scientists report discovering an apparent trigger to this potentially deadly process.
The number of medical students in the United States choosing careers in primary care has drastically fallen, threatening the foundation of the United States health care system overall.
Infants and preschool-aged children who live in daily circumstances of potential trauma and danger can develop the resilience to cope through treatment that focuses on strengthening parent-child bonds, according to a national expert in child development.
Has congenital heart disease found its match in a Texan named Deepak?
Host Michael Krasny interviews Rita Redberg, MD, MSc, about the new research from Harvard finding taking naps decrease the incidence of cardiac death.
UCSF School of Nursing doctoral candidate Catherine Dodd has been named to the San Francisco Health Commission.