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One of the world's most prominent health care leaders will visit UCSF and share his insights on patient safety from a global perspective and the latest approaches to hospital safety and policy. The talk is open to the public.
As a lifelong baseball fan, Richard J. Cohen, MD, a practicing oncologist in San Francisco and clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, is no stranger to seeing baseball played from a field-level view.
On Wednesday, August 23, KQED-FM's <em>Forum</em> with Michael Krasny discussed new research into the effect of stress on heart attacks, particularly among women, with Brian Strunk, MD, chief of the cardiovascular division at Marin General Hospital and associate clinical professor at UCSF.
Our first volunteer is Louann Brizendine, MD. Brizendine completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine, did graduate work in London at UCL in Philosophy of Mind and History of Science and Medicine, and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
A study published in the August 24 edition of the journal <em>Nature</em> describes a technique that could derive human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo.
Using standards that measure a university's openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research, <i>Newsweek International </i>has ranked UCSF ninth among the top 100 global universities.
A pioneering UCSF pediatrician reflects upon medical advances decades after seeing the very first children infected with HIV.
On Tuesday, August 22, KQED-FM's <i>Forum with Michael Krasny </i>discussed the nature and structure of the female brain and assessed the latest findings on how the structure of the female brain may determine how women think, what they value, and how they communicate, with Louann Brizendine, MD, author of <i>The Female Brain</i>.
Michael Marletta, an adjunct professor at UCSF's Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and PhD graduate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
The collaborative work of HHMI Investigators Joseph DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, and the story of how the collaboration came about are profiled in the August issue of the <i>Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin</i>.
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion recently unveiled a mural, one of eight designed to convey a sense of comfort and peace.
By 2012, every region in California will face a shortage of registered nurses, according to a new report.
On Monday, August 21, KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny explored the discussions and issues featured at last week's International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
The current issue of <i>Science</i> (August 18, 2006; vol. 313, no. 5789) features a "News Focus" on fetal surgery. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first fetal surgery, performed in 1981 at the University of California, San Francisco by pediatric surgeon Michael R. Harrison, MD, and his colleagues.
Olympic swimming legends and accomplished swimmers from across the country will participate in a 10-mile-long relay swim around San Francisco Bay on September 23 in the first "Swim Across America San Francisco Swim to Fight Cancer."
Breast cancer incidence in the United States ranks near the top internationally. And just across the Golden Gate from UCSF – in Marin County – studies show that the rate at which new breast cancers arise is among the highest in the United States.
Two members of the faculty have been named recipients of the Royer Award for outstanding contributions to psychiatry.
On Friday, August 18, 2006, PBS's <i>NewsHour with Jim Lehrer</i> aired a segment about the recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler that five major tobacco companies violated racketeering laws and conspired to cover up the risks of smoking. Analysts David Kessler, MD, and Mary Aronson discuss the verdict with <i>NewsHour </i>correspondent Jeffrey Brown.
A UCSF medical student has been awarded a Fulbright US Student scholarship to South Africa in Public Health.
UCSF AIDS researcher and co-discoverer of HIV, Jay Levy, MD, pioneered a study of long-term AIDS survivors, or "elite controllers," people who are infected with HIV but never get sick.
UCSF researcher Steven G. Deeks, MD, who has been studying a population of 60 elite controllers at San Francisco General Hospital, will work with Bruce Walker, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital on an international study of elite controllers.
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH, speaks at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Kahn is professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the AIDS Research Institute, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at UCSF.
Assemblyman Mark Leno was on hand last Friday to congratulate 21 minority and economically disadvantaged students who graduated from a health sciences summer internship program.
UCSF Police are asking for more information about a suspect arrested Aug. 11 for alleged sexual battery of two women in UC Hall on the Parnassus campus.
<i>Nature</i> takes a first look at research suggesting that certain genetic mutations that increase life span in the roundworm <i>C. elegans</i> also reduce the growth of tumors in the worm.
At the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto this week, UCSF researchers were among the attendees and presenters – which also included former President Bill Clinton – at sessions focusing on prevention and technology.
Children and adults of all ages and running levels are invited to join the annual "Banana Chase" run at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, September 17. The event supports pediatric AIDS research and treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital.
On Tuesday, August 15, <i>KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny </i>assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain.
NBC News reports on a San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and University of California, San Francisco study in this week's issue of the <i>Annals of Internal Medicine</i> about the subtle ways pharmaceutical companies market their products to physicians and patients.