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States that set high staffing standards for elder care in nursing homes are the only ones that come close to having enough staff nurses to prevent serious safety violations, according to a new study by a professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
David Julius, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UCSF, has won two awards for his work on the molecular understanding of how humans sense temperature.
Thanks to rarely talked-about recent advances in radiation treatments, young children are surviving cancers that would have been incurable a decade ago. One strategy that is helping to boost survival is radiation treatment provided at the time of surgery. UCSF and fewer than a dozen other medical centers nationwide are at the forefront in advancing this mode of treatment, called intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT).
Keeping an old brain young takes a jolt of novelty and a hunger for change...
UCSF's Kerwin Alexander will be among those pedaling the 585-mile AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles next month.
UCSF opened the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Diagnostic Center, one of the few centers of its kind in the world.
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Faculty, staff and students were recognized for their outstanding efforts at UCSF and in the community at the annual Founders Day Luncheon on May 11.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has received one of the largest single donations ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services
More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an impressive new high-tech surgery suite to improve this surgery.
The campus community is invited to attend the Second Annual Mentoring Research Symposium on May 24 and 25 at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.
Scientists have carried out a bioengineering feat that advances the possibility of "reassembling" and reprogramming living cells to serve as mini-robots in the body to treat disease.
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center (AHVC) celebrated its first year of Asian-focused care, outreach and education recently during a celebration at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.
A UCSF geneticist recently identified a gene that triggers a rare disorder resembling multiple sclerosis (MS).
Artists to design the UCSF event T-shirt and walkers are sought for San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 15.
UCSF's Shannon Webb says she's empowered to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Are chemical poisons concentrated in breast milk behind the rise in autism?
Eighth-grade students and their parents are invited to a special college planning workshop and fair sponsored by UCSF on Saturday, June 9. All Bay Area families are invited to this free event.
UCSF held its first teach-in on the Iraq war recently, drawing about 500 people from the campus and community to hear about its consequences.
The University of California Board of Regents today approved a proposed campaign to raise at least $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
The UC Board of Regents today approved a proposed fundraising campaign to raise at least $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
Once relegated to the basement to eat lunch on hot, sunny days, now students at the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy can eat alfresco under a shaded structure.