UCSF Names Community Partnerships Director
A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
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Give to UCSFA native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
UCSF Police today arrested the past president of the Mount Zion auxiliary on charges of grand theft and forgery.
Nancy Milliken, MD, was praised recently for her contributions to the community-based agency that serves San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point.
Members of the campus and community at large learned how to live greener lives at UCSF's Earth Fest last Thursday.
Faculty and staff were praised recently for taking the extra step in contributing to the success of UCSF Medical Center.
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.
After a spate of popularity in the 1970s, Kabbalah, an aspect of Jewish mysticism, has once again become fashionable. But do its tenets have any relevance to health care providers?
A study of 1,586 hospitalized patients age 70 and older at two Ohio hospitals indicates that 24 percent were given medically unnecessary urinary catheters, according to investigators led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Activist Angela Davis delivered a powerful keynote address to close a two-day symposium presented by the UCSF Center for Gender Equity.
A lecture presented in Cantonese aimed at helping Chinese and Chinese-American women understand women's risk of heart disease will be the focal point of a free workshop on women's heart health
Recruitment and retention of women in science have always been an uphill battle.
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
Experts in leadership, negotiation, communication and finance will gather today and tomorrow for a Symposium for Women in University Settings.
Newly released World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards for infants and young children aim to give "guidance on how every child in the world should grow."
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center, located at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, held its grand opening celebration.
Members of the campus are invited to join a UCSF team in a friendly bid to win the AIDS walk trophy after the annual trek on July 16.
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathy Dracup will talk about priorities and challenges in a state of the school address this Friday.
In the first effort of its kind in the United States, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have launched a study to determine whether giving active probiotic supplements to infants can delay or prevent asthma in children.
UCSF has named 15 new fellows as part of two research programs and is hosting the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for Medical Students Seminar on May 17.
What happens to molecules in time and space during interesting cellular processes?
Parents should make sure that all their children of any age are fully immunized for mumps and other vaccine-preventable diseases, a UCSF expert says.
Scientists at UCSF, Celera Genomics and The Cleveland Clinic have discovered two gene variants associated with a significantly increased risk for early heart attack, or myocardial infarction (MI).
UCSF.edu was one of seven sites selected by Google, Inc. as a health directory partner.
A question long debated among Alzheimer's disease researchers has been definitively answered by scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco.
Four doctors will receive awards on May 12 for demonstrating a commitment to UCSF Medical Center values of professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence.
The first center in the country to serve the specific cardiovascular care needs of Asians in the Bay Area and beyond has opened at UCSF Medical Center.
Ray and Dagmar Dolby have donated $16 million to the University of California, San Francisco, in support of the construction of a proposed research building. With the donation, the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology will be renamed the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine.