Media invited to UCSF Firefly Project on May 31
The Firefly Project is a free event that features a live reading of letters composed this year by critically ill patients and their healthy teenage pen pals.
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Results of clipping and coiling of aneurysms are similar over time
A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.
UCSF in the Community: An Obligation and Opportunity
UCSF Today debuts a series of stories this week offering just a glimpse of the many community-based activities in which UCSF faculty, staff and students are engaged.
Ponton Provides New Perspectives and Solutions Regarding Adolescent Risky Behavior
Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers.
Lower literacy means poor health and poor health care access for older people
People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability
UCSF Forms University-Community Partnerships Council
UCSF has formed a council to help identify needs and develop initiatives to create a more robust community partnership program.
Scientists Ponder Human Impacts of Synthetic Biology
UCSF scientist Chris Voigt, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and others shared the latest triumphs in synthetic biology.
SPCA 'Heart Specialists' Promote Healing at UCSF Children's Hospital
Even kids who are very ill benefit from a brief moment of pet therapy.
Can Being Happy Make You Live Longer?
Recent reports from the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere have quantified the health benefits of happiness.
UCSF Names Community Partnerships Director
A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
Hunters Point Family Agency Honors Milliken
Nancy Milliken, MD, was praised recently for her contributions to the community-based agency that serves San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point.
Police Arrest Past President of Mount Zion Auxiliary
UCSF Police today arrested the past president of the Mount Zion auxiliary on charges of grand theft and forgery.
Hundreds Attend UCSF's Largest Earth Fest Event
Members of the campus and community at large learned how to live greener lives at UCSF's Earth Fest last Thursday.
O'Farrell's Gels Blazed New Pathways
More than 30 years ago, when still a graduate student at University of Colorado, UCSF biochemist Patrick O'Farrell, PhD, invented a way to separate proteins from one another in biological samples, a technique called high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.