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People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people whose mental abilities have declined, but don’t have MCI, appear to have similar changes in brain structure and function, according to a study at SF VA Medical Center.
A national research group headed by Michael Weiner, MD, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been granted a $6.04 million Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.
UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries -- such as angioplasty and stenting -- found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.
Four faculty scientists in the UCSF School of Medicine are among the 65 newly elected members and five foreign associates to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today, Oct. 13.
A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from UCSF and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D.B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.
Infants born more than one week past their due dates have a higher risk of both impaired health and death, according to two new studies by authors from the University of California’s San Francisco and Berkeley campuses.
Kick-off event for the 19th annual Macy’s Christmas Tree Lighting benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. The celebration will feature a visit from Honorary Chair Barry Bonds, as well as face painting, refreshments, and elves to entertain young patients. Great photo, audio and video opportunities.
The American Heart Association has called for routine screening for depression in patients with heart disease, citing a depression rate that is three times higher than in the general population.
Public health experts will convene for a half-day conference to discuss the two Presidential candidates’ vastly differing suggestions for health care reform and assess the impact of each. The group will review the necessary elements of a reform and evaluate each plan from the perspective of women, low-income communities, public health advocates and health care providers. The meeting also will develop an action plan to inform California policymakers directly of the group’s views on reform proposals that promote health and wellness, and public health policies and programs.
Acclaimed artist, singer and writer Rhodessa Jones and The Medea Project will perform at “Living Proof,” a celebration to benefit the 15th anniversary of the UCSF Women’s HIV Program.
Swimming enthusiasts are invited to join a team of Olympians for Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim on Saturday, October 18. The events benefits cancer care at UCSF Children’s Hospital.
UCSF is celebrating 45 years of transplant procedures and 10,000 patients.
Two UCSF scientists are among the 31 nationwide who have received 2008 New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health. The awards are designed “to enable recipients to pursue exceptionally innovative approaches that could transform biomedical and behavioral science."
CT colonography (CTC), known as virtual colonoscopy, is as accurate at screening for colorectal cancers and pre-cancerous polyps as conventional colonoscopy, the current screening standard, according to the National CT Colonography Trial, a nationwide multi-center study that included the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Today UCSF Medical Center is one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus following the unanimous approval by the University of California Board of Regents on the project’s design, budget and environmental certification.
The Regents of the University of California are hearing a formal proposal today that will launch the next stage of planning for the UC School of Global Health to meet the tremendous need for training new leaders to tackle increasing global health issues. This would be UC’s first multicampus, systemwide school.
UCSF Medical Center will be one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus when an agenda item on the project’s design, budget and environmental certification comes up for approval by the University of California Board of Regents this week.
Scientists have identified a way in which the brain’s ability to process information diminishes with age, and shown that this break down contributes to the decreased ability to form memories that is associated with normal aging.
California’s state tobacco control program saved $86 billion--in 2004 dollars--in personal healthcare costs in its first 15 years, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
The UCSF University Community Partnerships Council has announced its first annual grants awards, totaling $166,055, to 12 San Francisco-based public-health community organizations. Of these, four grants specifically target community groups based in Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP), with awards totaling $99,522.
Five UCSF stem cell scientists have received New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
An aggressive childhood brain tumor known as medulloblastoma originates in normal brain “stem” cells that turn malignant when acted on by a known mutant, cancer-causing oncogene, say researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Scientists have identified a pattern of gene activity that predicts which patients who experience the first clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis – known as clinically isolated syndrome – are at high risk of converting to the full blown disease.
The Veterans Health Research Institute –– today announced the creation of a new logo andtag line “to represent our organization as we move forward and grow,” according to Executive Director Robert E. Obana.
Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain’s reward center even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such memory, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 13th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified a virus behind the mysterious infectious disease that has been killing parrots and exotic birds for more than 30 years.