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Archive: Heavy Teens Need More Health Talks: Study
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Archive: San Jose Junior Sharks Hockey Player Doesn't Let Diabetes Stop Her
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Archive: Traumatic Brain Injury Doubles Risk of Later Dementia
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Archive: NIH Director Says Timing Right to Reengineer Translational Science
<p>Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describes the scientific goals and functions of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), a proposed new entity of the NIH that will strive to reengineer the process of developing drugs, diagnostics, and devices. </p>
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Archive: Samuel Barondes Book on Assessing Personalities
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Archive: Hormone Therapy Extends Life of Some Prostate Cancer Patients
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Archive: Translational Research Begins to Explain Chronic Health Problems Associated with Intimate Partner Violence
<p>Janice Humphreys, a associate professor of Family Health Care Nursing, is working with an interdisciplinary group of UCSF colleagues to study the long-term health and aging effects of intimate partner violence with funding made possible by UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute.</p>
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Archive: Why the Breast Pump May Not Be Your Friend
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Archive: Rethinking Tinnitus: When The Ringing Won't Stop, Clear Your Mind
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Archive: Injuries of Veterans, Football Players Are Linked to Dementia Later in Life
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Archive: Brain Research at UCSF Aims to Help Distracted Remember
<p>UCSF cognitive neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley has used functional brain imaging and EEG studies to discover that older adults fare worse than younger adults at remembering following distractions. He hopes to improve their performance with cognitive training, using a newly developed video game.</p>
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Archive: Study: Doctors Falling Short on Screenings for Overweight Teens
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Archive: Brain Injury Raises Dementia Risk, Study Finds
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Archive: Studies in Older Veterans, Football Players Tie Head Injuries to Risk of Alzheimer's, Dementia
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Archive: oseph Hittelman Dies at 100; Physician Persecuted in McCarthy Era
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Archive: UCSF Slashes Heart Failure Readmits
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Archive: Veterans' Dementia Risk Linked to Combat Head Injury, Study Says
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Archive: Health Insurance: Getting What You Pay For
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Archive: UCSF Researchers to Nab Nearly $2M in Additional Bill & Melinda Gates 'Grand Challenge' Grants
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Archive: NIH Director Tours QB3 at Mission Bay to View Translational Science in Action
<p>As part of his push for the National Institutes of Health to focus more on translational medicine, Director Francis Collins recently toured one of UCSF’s world-class centers of innovation, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at Mission Bay.</p>
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Archive: UCSF to Lead First Annual Bay Area Science Festival: October 29-November 6
<p>UCSF is the lead partner in the inaugural Bay Area Science Festival that will bring together an unprecedented brain trust of the region’s scientific and educational partners to produce what is expected to be one of the largest science-based events ever held in the United States.</p>
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Archive: Less Lighting Up in Movies Aimed at Kids
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Archive: UCSF Professor Dies in Campus Shuttle Bus Accident
Kevin Mack, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, was killed today in a UCSF shuttle bus collision with a semi-trailer in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley.
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Archive: Researchers Discover Monkey-to-Human Virus
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Archive: Budget Update From UCSF's Senior Vice Chancellor John Plotts
<p>UCSF’s Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration John Plotts issued a budget update today in an email to the campus community.</p>
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Archive: Movies Companies Snuff On-Screen Smoking
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Archive: When Hospital Overcrowding Becomes Personal
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Archive: Respiratory Virus Jumps from Monkeys to Humans
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Archive: UCSF Confirms First Known Adenovirus to Jump Between Monkeys and Humans
A novel virus that spread through a California monkey colony in late 2009 also infected a human researcher and a family member, UCSF researchers have found, the first known example of an adenovirus “jumping” from one species to another and remaining contagious after the jump.