Osher Center presents weekend workshop with renowned Ayurvedic expert
A world-renowned expert on Ayurveda, an ancient holistic approach to health that originated in India thousands of years ago, will present a lecture and workshop in late October.
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Give to UCSFA world-renowned expert on Ayurveda, an ancient holistic approach to health that originated in India thousands of years ago, will present a lecture and workshop in late October.
Volker Doetsch, director of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Frankfurt's Goethe University, compares and contrasts the world of basic science at UCSF and in his home country.
QB3 recently welcomed visitors to its new Garage, where enterprising scientists are working to translate their ideas into biotech discoveries.
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified a potential new avenue for reducing the build up of toxic amyloid (Ab) proteins, which are suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Five UCSF projects will be funded from the largest state-funded breast cancer research program in the nation.
On public radio's Tech Nation, Louann Brizendine, MD, neurospychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, speaks with host Moira Gunn about Brizendine's new book <i>The Female Brain</i>.
First-year students from all four schools will come together tomorrow for the first event of its kind that focuses on communication and patient safety.
The September 25 issue of Newsweek features as its cover story "Twenty Top Women on Leadership." One of the women profiled is Renee Reijo Pera.
UCSF's Women's Global Health Imperative welcomes this week 28 women scientists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America for the start of a yearlong leadership-training program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 57, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named to receive the 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn has been named a recipient of the 2006 Lasker Award for the prediction and discovery of telomerase.
Two swimmers from UCSF will swim in the San Francisco Bay on September 23 to raise funds for the UCSF Survivors of Childhood Cancer program.
Chancellor Mike Bishop and CEO Mark Laret joined Dean Kathleen Dracup on September 13 to commemorate 100 years of excellence in nursing care, research and education.
UCSF's Asian Heart & Vascular Center recently conducted a free community education class on traditional Chinese medicine and its role in cardiovascular care.
CBS 5's Kim Mulvihill interviews Louann Brizendine, MD, a neuropsychiatrist at UCSF whose new book, <i>The Female Brain</i>, compiles two decades of brain research showing that the male and female brains are wired, structured and fueled differently, leading to unique talents.
NBC's Robert Bazell takes a look at a new trend in medicine in which doctors suggest not giving children antibiotics right away to cure ear infections. NBC follows Cynthia Kim, MD, a pediatrician at UCSF Children's Hospital, as she treats a young girl for an ear infection.
Barbara Hammerman, 47, San Mateo's first female police lieutenant, has terminal brain cancer and is pioneering again, this time volunteering for an experimental brain tumor treatment at UCSF that will hopefully save her life.
On Wednesday, October 11 from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., the UCSF Lesbian Health and Research Center will sponsor a Lesbian Health Institute in conjunction with the 24th Annual Conference of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association in San Francisco.
"For some, it is the sight of blood; for others, the smell of stool or vomit. Almost every medical student will at some point in training encounter a particular procedure or biological unpleasantry that simply turns his or her stomach inside out.
The campus community is invited to hear an update on the strategic planning process during the second round of town hall meetings to begin October 3.
The public is invited to join the conversation with the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at UCSF's Mini Medical School for the community, which begins October 24.
The J. David Gladstone Institutes honored long-time UCSF leaders Haile Debas and Lloyd H. "Holly" Smith with trustee awards.
SB840, a bill passed by the California state legislature but recently vetoed as too costly by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, would have provided comprehensive medical insurance for every Californian. James Kahn, professor in residence at UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies, believes Gov. Schwarzenegger was wrong in vetoing the bill. Kahn explained his opinions in a recent interview.
UCSF will host the inaugural Faculty Welcoming Week from September 18 to 22.
Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, talks with <i>The View From The Bay </i>hosts Spencer and Jannell about her new book, <i>The Female Brain</i>.
UCSF Police Department will sponsor its fifth annual public safety fair beginning this Thursday.
Kim Mulvihill, MD, reports on the pioneering field of fetal surgery developed and refined at UCSF Children's Hospital that has saved the lives of babies with birth defects and enabled many to live normal lives.