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<p><em>Time </em>magazine has named Gladstone and UCSF scientist Robert Grant, MD, MPH, to the <a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112159,00.html" target="_blank">2012 TIME 100</a>, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.</p>
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 than previously reported.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann spoke with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/17/working-toward-a-new-social-contract-for-health-care/" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> reporter Amy Marcus about her vision of a “new social contract” for patients participating in the health care system.</p>
A new brain cancer vaccine tailored to individual patients by using material from their own tumors has proven effective in a multicenter phase 2 clinical trial at extending their lives by several months or longer. The patients suffered from recurrent glioblastoma multiform — which kills thousands of Americans every year.
A new UCSF Medical Center study finds that publicly reported “hospital readmission rates” often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery that may be misleading to patients.
<p>Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will celebrate excellence in education at UCSF when she delivers her 2012 commencement address to be webcast live on Tuesday, April 24.</p>
<p>A recent <em>New York Times</em> online headline, "Study Says DNA's Power to Predict Illness is Limited," explains that your genome is not your destiny. Who’d have thought? Many scientific experts in human genetics, for starters.</p>
Spotlight on Kirsten Thompson, of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health in the School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
The key to treating one of the most common types of human leukemia may lie within mutations in a gene called FLT3, according to new research led by physician-scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
One of the ultimate ways of understanding what impact any particular gene has in human health or disease is to disrupt it—knocking it down or wiping it out in a worm, fly or mouse and gauging what happens next.
<p>A UCSF professor and medical student are working together to develop a mobile application that can rapidly identify pills based on color, shape, and imprint to provide real-time identification of drugs in the field or emergency room.</p>
<p>It’s a brave new world online. As the influence of social media widens, the lines between users’ personal and professional lives are blurring. Doctors are no exception. According to a new study published in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)</em>, violations of online professionalism are prevalent among physicians. The study found that 92 percent of state medical boards in the United States have received reports of violations ranging from inappropriate contact with patients to misrepresentation of credentials.</p>
In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a “Google Maps”-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing a call-to-arms to patient advocates to help make that idea a reality.
<p>UCSF’s Campus Life Retail Services and Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association (PCFMA) are proud to welcome back the Farmers’ Market at Mission Bay on Wednesday, April 11.</p>
UC President Mark Yudof looks forward to working with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to repair the damage caused by the incident involving the use of pepper spray on students on Nov. 18, 2011.
A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the possibility of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain diseases, report scientists at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.