Gladstone Institutes: Sparking Interest in Science
The Gladstone Institute's many civic contributions include advancing scientific knowledge through free public lectures, such as one on stem cell science and politics slated for June 7.
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Give to UCSFThe Gladstone Institute's many civic contributions include advancing scientific knowledge through free public lectures, such as one on stem cell science and politics slated for June 7.
Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers.
UCSF has formed a council to help identify needs and develop initiatives to create a more robust community partnership program.
A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.
UCSF scientist Chris Voigt, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and others shared the latest triumphs in synthetic biology.
People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability
UCSF Today debuts a series of stories this week offering just a glimpse of the many community-based activities in which UCSF faculty, staff and students are engaged.
Even kids who are very ill benefit from a brief moment of pet therapy.
Recent reports from the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere have quantified the health benefits of happiness.
A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
Nancy Milliken, MD, was praised recently for her contributions to the community-based agency that serves San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point.
UCSF Police today arrested the past president of the Mount Zion auxiliary on charges of grand theft and forgery.
Members of the campus and community at large learned how to live greener lives at UCSF's Earth Fest last Thursday.
More than 30 years ago, when still a graduate student at University of Colorado, UCSF biochemist Patrick O'Farrell, PhD, invented a way to separate proteins from one another in biological samples, a technique called high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
Faculty and staff were praised recently for taking the extra step in contributing to the success of UCSF Medical Center.
A study of 1,586 hospitalized patients age 70 and older at two Ohio hospitals indicates that 24 percent were given medically unnecessary urinary catheters, according to investigators led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Activist Angela Davis delivered a powerful keynote address to close a two-day symposium presented by the UCSF Center for Gender Equity.
After a spate of popularity in the 1970s, Kabbalah, an aspect of Jewish mysticism, has once again become fashionable. But do its tenets have any relevance to health care providers?
A lecture presented in Cantonese aimed at helping Chinese and Chinese-American women understand women's risk of heart disease will be the focal point of a free workshop on women's heart health
Recruitment and retention of women in science have always been an uphill battle.
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
Experts in leadership, negotiation, communication and finance will gather today and tomorrow for a Symposium for Women in University Settings.
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center, located at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, held its grand opening celebration.
Members of the campus are invited to join a UCSF team in a friendly bid to win the AIDS walk trophy after the annual trek on July 16.
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Kathy Dracup will talk about priorities and challenges in a state of the school address this Friday.
Newly released World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards for infants and young children aim to give "guidance on how every child in the world should grow."