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Scientists at UCSF have discovered an abnormality in a patient’s immune system that may lead to safer therapies for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and colitis, as well as potential new ways to treat transplant rejection.
The rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns, according to a UCSF study. Findings also showed a two-fold increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths during the same time period.
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy will undergo surgery at UCSF Medical Center today (Friday, January 16), to restore his hearing, which was destroyed in June 2007 when a U.S. explosive device hit his neighbor’s house.
The pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis employed “the systematic use of deception and misinformation” in order to manipulate physicians into prescribing the drug gabapentin for so-called off-label uses, write two San Francisco VA Medical Center physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine.
UCSF researchers have used a new strategy to study inherited susceptibility for skin cancer in mice. In the process, they have identified a network of genes that may play a key role in controlling this susceptibility. The technique, the scientists say, could be used to identify such genes in human cancers.
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Muhimbili University of Health Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania to develop, implement and document strategies to enable MUHAS and other African institutions to meet their countries’ health workforce needs.
The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) released its 23rd annual toy safety survey – “Trouble in Toyland” – on Nov. 25, at a press conference in San Jose.
The UCSF School of Dentistry has received the largest grant in its history: $24.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to address socio-economic and cultural disparities in oral health.
University, state and local officials, philanthropists and community leaders will announce a multi-million dollar gift from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at UCSF.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is donating $25 million to UCSF’s stem cell program, one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the United States. The funds will be put toward the construction of a headquarters for the program, which will enable scientists to continue their groundbreaking advances in identifying strategies to treat a wide range of diseases, UCSF announced today.
Researchers at the UCSF Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have identified a region on the human genome that appears to determine how strongly drinkers feel the effects of alcohol and thus how prone they are to alcohol abuse.
Reading by authors from recently published book, “AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India,” followed by discussion and reception.
A UCSF study has found that a surprisingly high number of maternal cells enters the fetus during pregnancy, prompting the generation of special immune cells in the fetus that suppress a response against the mother.
UCSF Medical Center ranks No. 1 nationwide for the speed with which heart attack patients are treated using balloon angioplasty, according to the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). Cardiac balloon angioplasty and stenting are the procedures used to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels and must be performed quickly after a heart attack to minimize heart muscle loss.
A nationwide study of over 280,000 women showed that postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese have advanced breast cancer at significantly higher rates than women of normal weight or less than normal weight.
Patients with heart disease who are depressed are more likely to smoke, not exercise and not take heart medications correctly than those who are not depressed, thereby putting themselves at greater risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and death, according to a five-year study of over one thousand heart patients led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The 19th annual Macy’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. Macy’s partners with UCSF each year to raise funds for the Children’s Hospital by selling lights to adorn the 80-foot-tall Shasta Fir. Over the last five years, nearly $700,000 has been raised for UCSF’s pediatric palliative care program – Compass Care – which supports families whose children have life-threatening illnesses.
UCSF will go completely smoke-free tomorrow, November 20, which is Great American Smoke-out Day.
Two common cancer drugs have been shown to both prevent and reverse type 1 diabetes in a mouse model of the disease, according to research conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. The drugs – imatinib (marketed as Gleevec) and sunitinib (marketed as Sutent) – were found to put type 1 diabetes into remission in 80 percent of the test mice and work permanently in 80 percent of those that go into remission.
UCSF Children’s Hospital has opened an innovative new clinical unit focusing on the infant brain that is the first facility of its kind in the United States. The unit brings together specialized treatment for infants who show signs of brain damage at birth – and are at-risk for developing cerebral palsy, mental retardation and other cognitive disorders – with clinical research.
The UCSF School of Medicine continues to have one of the most diverse student bodies among California medical schools, according to a public policy institute study. Nearly one-third of students in last fall’s entering class -- 28 percent -- are from groups underrepresented in medicine.
A class of miniscule molecules called microRNAs has become a major focus of biomedical research. Now, UCSF scientists have identified multiple members of this class that enable embryonic stem cells to divide, and thus proliferate, much more rapidly than the mature, or specialized, cells of the adult body.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, San Francisco, have revealed new hope for HIV treatment with the discovery of a way to 'rescue' immune cells that are exhausted from fighting off HIV infection.
Use of radiology imaging tests has soared in the past decade with a significant increase in newer technologies, according to a new study that is the first to track imaging patterns in a managed care setting over a substantial time period.
Pregnant women whose labor stalls while in the active phase of childbirth can reduce health risks to themselves and their infants by waiting out the delivery process for an extra two hours, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, MD, who has led the University of California, San Francisco for the past 10 years, today announced plans to step down from his post, effective June 30, 2009.
Active elderly women scored better on tests of mental function than less active women, according to a new study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
A new study looking at unprotected intercourse within gay couples when each partner has established HIV-infection found a correlation between anti-HIV immune response and sexual activity.
Public health experts will convene for a half-day conference to discuss the two presidential candidates’ vastly different suggestions for health care reform and assess the impact of each.
The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, on the integrative medicine approach to eating disorders.