Secondhand Smoke Takes Large Physical and Economic Toll
Secondhand smoke is accountable for 42,000 deaths annually to nonsmokers in the United States, including nearly 900 infants, according to a new UCSF study.
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Global Health to Launch Hub at UCSF With $20 Million Gift
UCSF has received a $20 million gift from philanthropist Chuck Feeney to build a new hub for Global Health Sciences at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
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UCSF Nursing Achieves Magnet Status for Excellence in Patient Care and Innovation
<p>UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital have earned the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.</p>
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Tracking Glaucoma among Asian Ethnicities
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Sinusitis Linked to Microbial Diversity
A common bacteria ever-present on the human skin and previously considered harmless, may, in fact, be the culprit behind chronic sinusitis, a painful, recurring swelling of the sinuses that strikes more than one in ten Americans each year, according to a study by scientists at UCSF.
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Interns Learn to EXCEL in Health Care Jobs
<p>A good job in health care was the key to a better life for Shameka Jones, but the path to getting one hasn’t been easy.</p>
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Apnea Steals Sleep from the Restless
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Health Care Game Changers to Address Dreamforce Conference
<p>Neurosurgeon Mitch Berger will be among UCSF physicians and scientists appearing September 20 at Dreamforce 2012 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, leading separate sessions that address one theme: “Innovating to Improve Health Outcomes.”</p>
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FDA, UCSF Partnership Helps Industry Identify Drug Interactions
<p>Pharmaceutical companies now have a guide — the UCSF-FDA TransPortal — to pre-clinical studies they should conduct to identify potentially harmful interactions between existing and new drugs that depend on how the drugs move into and out of cells through protein portals known as transporters.</p>
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Obesity Weighing on America - Latin America, That Is
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Malaria Nearly Eliminated in Sri Lanka Despite Decades of Conflict
Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014.
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Hantavirus: Be Careful, Not Fearful
Hantavirus, a potentially fatal virus transmitted by rodents such as deer mice, is making news following an unusual outbreak at a popular tourist area of Yosemite National Park. The recent cases are a reminder for campers to be cautious, but not necessarily fearful, according to UCSF infectious diseases expert Charles Chiu.
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Living with Retinitis Pigmentosa
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Sleepless Nights May Put The Aging Brain At Risk Of Dementia
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Sleep Problems May Contribute to Cognitive Decline
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Former Olympians Help Celebrate UCSF Pediatric Transplant Surgery Success
<p>More than 300 children and their families joined former Olympians, UCSF doctors, nurses, social workers and others at the 17th annual picnic to celebrate the work of the Organ Transplant Service at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.</p>
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Great Manager Profile: Doug Eckman
<p><span>Doug Eckman works at the intersection of dual bureaucracies. As director of operations for UCSF School of Medicine, Dean’s Office at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), Eckman must navigate both the university and the city’s Department of Public Health. Despite the complexity and perhaps because of it, Eckman loves his work.</span></p>
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A Sleeping Timebomb
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Food Insecurity Increases Hospital Use by HIV-Positive Urban Poor in San Francisco
UCSF researchers found that poor HIV-infected individuals living in San Francisco are significantly more likely to visit emergency rooms and to have hospital stays if they lack access to food of sufficient quality and quantity for a healthy life.
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Research Offers New Hope for HIV/AIDS Patients with Cancer
<p>A proposed new treatment to help HIV/AIDS patients suffering from Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common form of cancer in people with HIV, is now one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to a program that supports promising early-stage research.</p>
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UCSF's Resource Allocation Program Seeks Applications for Fall Cycle
<p>UCSF's Resource Allocation Program (RAP), which incorporates a single online application for 30 different research grants, is now requesting applications for the Fall 2012 Cycle.</p>
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Women May Be at Increased Health Risk Due to PTSD
<p><span>Research has shown that women are at greater risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than men. Now, scientists based at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have found that women with the condition might be more likely to experience faster aging at the cellular level and increased risk for diseases of aging than men with PTSD.</span></p>
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Mysterious Snake Disease Decoded
A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—and three snakes named Juliet, Balthazar and Larry.
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Diversity of Global Health Graduating Class Reflects Program's Broad Reach
<p>The newest graduates of UCSF’s Global Health Sciences masters program are idealistic but well aware that they don’t live in an ideal world. They’re not going to let that stop them.</p>
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New Standards to Improve Diagnosis of Sjogren's Syndrome
<p><span>Sjögren's syndrome largely was unknown to the American public until tennis star Venus Williams withdrew from the U.S. Open last year and announced she had the autoimmune disease, in which a person’s white blood cells attack glands that produce tears and saliva.</span></p>
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Helping Multiple Sclerosis Patients Face Dizzying Medication Decisions
<p>There is no cure for multiple sclerosis, but several medications can help slow its devastating effects, and extend healthier years for the roughly 2.5 million people worldwide diagnosed with this chronic neurological disease.</p>
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Kid-Friendly Environment at Visual Center Allows For Better Eye Exam
<p>When new patients are brought to the UCSF Visual Center for the Child, eye examinations begin even before they enter the doctor’s room.</p>
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Almost Half of Type 2 Diabetes Patients Report Acute and Chronic Pain
Almost half of adults with type 2 diabetes report acute and chronic pain, and close to one quarter report neuropathy, fatigue, depression, sleep disturbance and physical or emotional disability, according to a study of more than 13,000 adults conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, the University of California, San Francisco and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, CA. The researchers also found significant rates of shortness of breath, nausea and constipation.
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A Molecule Central to Diabetes Is Uncovered
At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress — microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone.
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Epilepsy Drug Could Help with Alzheimer's-Related Memory Loss
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered that an FDA-approved anti-epileptic drug reverses memory loss and alleviates other Alzheimer’s-related impairments in an animal model of the disease.
