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Video Game Violence Changes Attitudes in the Real World
Violent video games create more permissive attitudes toward risky behaviors – such as using drugs – in youths who play those games, according to a study by UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD.
When Video Game Playing Becomes a Problem
With the most recent edition of the hottest sports video game in the nation hitting store shelves in August, UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD, knows that for some gamers, the release of <i>Madden NFL 07</i> for the Sony PlayStation 2 means more than just armchair blocking and rushing.
UCSF Nurses Aid Victims in Hit-and-Run Rampage
Two UCSF nurses don't consider themselves heroes for helping two people injured in Tuesday's hit-and-run rampage in San Francisco.
"Sexes in the City: Where Are Women in the Gender Gap Game?"
<i>City Visions</i> host Yumi Wilson interviews Dr. Louann Brizendine, MD, director and founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, about her book <i>The Female Brain</i>, in which Brizendine claims the foundation of the differences between men and women are biological.
UCSF Announces NIH Roadmap K12 Clinical Research Scholars
The campus has named the 2006 scholars for the UCSF Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholars Program.
T-Cell Mystery Shackles Space Travel
Even for outer space fanatics, reality must sometimes strike. From Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica, humans have shown the rather unearthly ability to race across the cosmos with little impact on their health other than the occasional phaser blast. What is an easily overlooked detail for screenwriters, however, can be a painful fact to real astronauts and shuttle pilots.
Study shows prenatal diagnostic tests have low risk of miscarriage
Pregnant women who seek prenatal diagnostic testing to identify genetic or chromosomal abnormalities have a lower risk of miscarriage than previously believed, according to a UCSF study.
Action needed to stop demise of primary care
Primary care medicine faces a serious crisis that could threaten the health of millions of Americans, according to a UCSF health policy expert.
"Selling Science: How Do We Keep Students Interested?"
On Wednesday, August 23, Rebecca Smith, co-director of the Science and Health Education Partnership — a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District — and Theresa O'Brien from the UCSF Graduate Students' Association spoke with <i>Your Call</i> host Rose Aguilar about science education in the Bay Area and the new science high school at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.
Scientist-astronaut sends T-cells into space
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan
What's in a University Ranking?
The latest rankings rate UCSF ninth among universities worldwide – pretty impressive. Although the rankings – produced by <i>Newsweek International</i> – are among the first-ever international comparisons, there now are a rapidly growing number of groups across the globe that are developing university rankings – and the methods used often are criticized.
Google Chef to Cook for SFGH's Trauma Recovery Center Benefit
Google chef Nate Keller will give a private cooking demonstration as part of a September 16 fundraiser for the San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Recovery Center.
UK Chief Medical Officer Urges Patient Safety Measures
One of the world's most prominent health care leaders, Sir Liam Donaldson, MSc, MD, chief medical officer of the United Kingdom and founding chair of the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety, gave a talk on Monday, Aug. 28, about medical errors and approaches to hospital safety.