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Archive: Mission Bay Hospital Project Wins International Innovation Award
<p>UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay’s design and construction team has received an international award honoring the many innovative approaches being used to create the world-class hospital complex in San Francisco.</p>
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Archive: Gladstone Scientists Identify Key Network Mechanism That Could Contribute to Cognitive Problems in Alzheimer's Disease
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have unraveled a process by which depletion of a specific protein in the brain contributes to the memory problems associated with Alzheimer’s disease. These findings provide insights into the disease’s development and may lead to new therapies that could benefit the millions of people worldwide.
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Archive: Progress Against HIV Thwarted By Patients' Unmet Needs
In a groundbreaking study published last year, scientists reported that effective treatment with HIV medications not only restores health and prolongs life in many HIV-infected patients, but also curtails transmission to sexual partners up to ninety-seven percent.
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Archive: Faster Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy for Watching Interior of Live Cells
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Archive: UCSF and SFUSD Collaborate to Prepare Students for College
<p>Heading off to college is almost always daunting, even for the most accomplished high school students. That’s why about 500 San Francisco seniors flocked to UCSF Mission Bay recently for a community outreach program designed to curb the dropout rate.</p>
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Archive: The Fluctuating Costs for Medical Procedures
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Archive: Report: Epilepsy Surgery Underused Option When Drug Therapy Fails
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Archive: Senate Panel OKs Scaled Back Early-Term Abortion Bill
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Archive: Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Symposium on Tobacco Treatment
To celebrate the launch of UCSF’s Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center, UCSF is holding an educational symposium featuring new research on tobacco cessation treatment and tobacco research. Lunch will be provided.
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Archive: UCSF Fundraising
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Archive: Scientist Warner Greene Receives Washington University School of Medicine Alumni Award
Warner C. Greene — who directs virology and immunology research at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes — has won the 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Archive: Is Enough Being Done To Monitor Mad Cow Disease?
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Archive: Medical Bills: Sticker Shock and Confused Consumers
According to a provocative new UCSF analysis, patients are all too often left in the dark about how and what hospitals charge for their medical care – even in the face of a mounting push nationally for consumers to have a voice in how their health care dollars are spent.
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Archive: Fat, Drumsticks, and Froot Loops
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Archive: UCSF Launches $100M Fundraising Campaign To Offset Cuts
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Archive: How Much Does an Appendectomy Cost? Somewhere Between $1,529 and $186,955
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Archive: Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Symposium On World Malaria Day
To celebrate World Malaria Day 2012, on Wednesday, April 25, the UCSF Global Health Group and local non-profit Zagaya are hosting the Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium.
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Archive: Malaria Resurgence Directly Linked To Funding Cuts
Funding cuts for malaria control are the single most common reason for the resurgence of the deadly disease, according to a new study that has linked overall weakened malaria control programs to the majority of global resurgences since 1930.
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Archive: What Cocktail Parties Teach Us
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In Focus: 2012 Commencement Season
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Archive: Study: Appendix Surgery Costs Differ Around U.S.
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Archive: City Project Continues to Repave Parnassus Avenue
<p>The City of San Francisco's project to repave and make other upgrades on Parnassus Avenue has had a few delays due to rain, but the project is progressing and starting to move on to the main UCSF Parnassus campus.</p>
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Archive: UCSF to Launch $100M Fund-Raising Campaign to Offset State Funding Cuts
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Archive: What Caused Frida Kahlo's Infertility?
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Archive: Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Underutilized
Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely adopted — in fact, it is dramatically underutilized according to a new UCSF study.
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Archive: After Foreclosures, Hidden Addictions Emerge Among Elders
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Archive: #14 Robert Wachter - 50 Most Influential Physician Executives - 2012
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Archive: The Time to Act against Alzheimer's is Now
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Archive: Hospital Computer Kiosks Effective, But Value Questioned