UCSF opens photo exhibit "Honor your mother: Save a mother's life"
The UCSF Safe Motherhood Program is hosting a photo exhibit and reception to honor mothers worldwide.
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Give to UCSFThe UCSF Safe Motherhood Program is hosting a photo exhibit and reception to honor mothers worldwide.
When the eye tracks a bird's flight across the sky, the visual experience is normally smooth, without interruption. But underlying this behavior is a complex coordination of neurons that has remained mysterious to scientists.
UCSF marked a milestone this week with the 500th procedure in its Thoracic Transplant Program, which specializes in transplantation of the heart and lung.
UCSF will award its highest honor – the UCSF Medal – to four civic and scientific leaders at a special event on Wednesday, April 23.
A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed and tested the intervention.
UCSF will host a public hearing to solicit comments on the adequacy and accuracy of information presented in the draft EnvironmentalImpact Report (EIR) for the new medical center at Mission Bay.
UCSF was the third largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research support in 2007, according to new figures released by NIH.
Special event hosted by UCSF oral cancer specialists to raise awareness of oral cancer and promote early cancer detection.
Researchers from the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will take center stage during the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, set for the San Diego Convention Center April 12-16.
The California Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act of 2004 increased nursing home costs, but failed to improve quality or access to care, according to a UCSF evaluation on the legislation’s impact.
Dean Schillinger, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine for UCSF and practicing primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, has been named chief of the California Diabetes Program.
UCSF's School of Pharmacy ranks first, the School of Nursing second, and the School of Medicine fifth among all graduate schools in their fields in a new survey conducted and published by "U.S. News & World Report."
In the earliest days of brain development, the brain's first cells – neuroepithelial stem cells -- divide continuously, producing a population of cells that eventually evolves into the various cells of the fully formed brain.
Male songbirds produce a subtly different tune when they are courting a female than when they are singing on their own. Now, new research offers a window into the effect this has on females, showing they have an ear for detail.
Among women 65 and older, wealthy women in poor health are more likely to receive screening mammography for breast cancer even when they are unlikely to benefit from the test, while poor women in good health are less likely to receive screening mammography even when they are likely to benefit.
Michael Hindery has been named the new vice dean for administration, finance and clinical programs at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He assumed his new post on February 28, 2008.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a way to quickly estimate a woman's risk for invasive breast cancer.
One-year survival rates for patients receiving heart, liver and lung transplants at UCSF Medical Center exceed national averages at statistically significant levels, according to new data compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
A drug therapy currently used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis had a significant effect in treating the most common form of multiple sclerosis in a small, short-term clinical trial.
Children who are overweight have less range of motion in their elbows than their normal-weight peers, which could make it tougher for them to exercise in order to lose weight, the findings of a research study suggest.
HIV-infected people who have used heroin in the past are just as likely to properly take highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and to benefit from the therapy as people who have never used heroin –– but are much less likely to be prescribed the therapy.
Morphine's serious side effect as a pain killer – its potential to create dependency – has been almost completely eliminated in research with mice by genetically modifying a single trait on the surface of neurons. The study scientists think a drug can be developed to similarly block dependency.
Samuel C. Hughes, MD, a professor of anesthesia and perioperative care at UCSF and an attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, died Jan. 20 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61.
Scientists have discovered that mice genetically engineered to lack a particular protein in the brain have profound deafness and seizures. The finding suggests a pathway, they say, for exploring the hereditary causes of deafness and epilepsy in humans.
UCSF Public Affairs is sponsoring a screening of the documentary film "Miss HIV" and a panel discussion with UCSF experts about HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in Africa. The event is free and open to the public.
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, and Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease have uncovered a biochemical signaling pathway that leads to the formation of abnormally large bones in mice.
We regret that our recent news report (1-14-08) about an important population-based study on MRSA USA300 with public health implications contained some information that could be interpreted as misleading.
(revised 1-23-08)<br />A multi-drug-resistant variant of community MRSA bacteria is emerging in cities on both coasts of the U.S., a new UCSF-led study shows.
Older women with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) –– the restriction or interruption of breathing during sleep –– are more likely to show cognitive impairment than women without SDB, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UC San Francisco.