Archive: LGBT Leaders Receive Chancellor's Award at UCSF
<p>Members of the UCSF community recently recognized three individuals for their leadership in championing rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.</p>
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Archive: Teen Patient Sings About Struggles of Medical Journey
<p>Rachel Hale, 18 and Monica Joy, 15, have a friendship similar to a lot of teenagers. But unlike most teenagers, their friendship first started at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital while they were both undergoing treatment for gastrointestinal issues.</p>
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Archive: Type of Stem Cell May Contribute to Heart Disease
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Archive: Gladstone Scientists Reprogram Skin Cells into Brain Cells
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells — with a single genetic factor — into cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells.
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Archive: Should Sugary Drinks Be Taxed Like Cigarettes?
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Archive: Dipsea Champ Rivers Can't Wait for 'Dipsea Day'
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Appointed to New California Task Force to Improve Health
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, has been appointed to a new state task force established by Governor Jerry Brown to develop a 10-year blueprint for improving the health of Californians.</p>
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Archive: Prop. 29 a Virtual Tie So Far
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Archive: SF General Hospital Celebrates Milestone In Rebuild Of Its Acute Care Facility
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Archive: San Francisco General Hospital Celebrates Topping Out
<p>Members of the community gathered Tuesday to celebrate the "topping out" of the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, which will house more than 284 beds, 14 operating rooms as well as an emergency room nearly three times larger than the current one.</p>
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Archive: Standard Measures of Clinical Care of Blood Pressure Misleading, Say Researchers
Standard performance measures used by health care systems and insurance companies to assess how well physicians are controlling their patients’ blood pressure tell an incomplete and potentially misleading story, researchers say.
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Archive: Digging Deeper: Hospital Team at UCSF Medical Center Sets Ambitious Green Goal
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Archive: Amputee Athletes Push Physical Boundaries at Unique Clinic
A diverse group of young athletes came together recently for a common purpose: to participate in UCSF’s Amputee Comprehensive Training program at the Orthopaedic Institute, where they pushed themselves further than they had ever imagined possible.
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Archive: MLB Umpires Visit Sick Kids at UCSF Children's Hospital
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Archive: Hormone-blocking Pill Zytiga Slows Prostate Cancer Growth
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Archive: Advanced Prostate Cancer Slows With New Drug
A new medication proved effective in slowing the spread of metastatic prostate cancer, while helping to maintain the quality of life, in patients with advanced disease, according to results of a UCSF-led study.
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Archive: Drug Slows Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Archive: Teens Whose Moms Smoked While Pregnant May Have Worse Asthma
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Gets Great HealthGrades
<p>UCSF Medical Center was the only hospital in California to lead in both patient satisfaction and patient safety in a new report from HealthGrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.</p>
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Archive: New Cancer Data Shine Spotlight On The Secret Committees That Make Medicine's Toughest Decisions
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Archive: Ill, Older Patients Who Rely on Emergency Room Often Live Final Days in Hospital, Study Finds
Half of adults over age 65 made at least one emergency department (ED) visit in the last month of life, in a study led by a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: A Drug for Advanced Melanoma Is Found to Prolong Patients' Lives
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Archive: Open Access Petition Passes 25,000 Threshold
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Archive: UCSF Advances Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis
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Archive: FDA to Let Women Try New Breast Drugs Earlier
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Archive: Interrupting Prostate Cancer Treatment Could Shorten Life, Study Finds
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Archive: Lance Armstrong takes on Big Tobacco in Calif.
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Archive: Kayakers Represent USA in Queen's Diamond Jubilee Flotilla
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Archive: Johnson & Johnson Prostate Cancer Drug Impresses
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Archive: Study: Hormone Pill Slows Prostate Cancer's Growth