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<p>Donna Ferriero, who is internationally recognized as an expert in the care of newborns and children with neurological disabilities, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.</p>
The UCSF Police Department is searching for a suspect in a sexual assault that occurred near the UCSF Parnassus campus on the evening of Friday, April 15, and seeking witnesses who might have information on the assailant.
<p>UCSF welcomed a group of undergraduate students from across the state last weekend for a two-day event designed to develop a relationship with diverse students who aspire to be among the next generation of health professionals.</p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">More than two decades after a pivotal clinical trial of a drug was used to treat multiple sclerosis, researchers are reporting a surprising discovery: the people who received interferon in the trial, as opposed to a placebo, were only about half as likely to have died in years since.</span></p>
<p>UCSF's Lynn Ponton, an expert in teen risk-taking and sexuality, has written a new novel, “Metis: Mixed Blood Stories,” which tells the coming-of-age stories of four generations of adolescents as they face different challenges during their 16th year.</p>
<p>Three UCSF professors, in medicine, immunology and molecular pharmacology, are among 212 international leaders who have been elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).</p>
<p>Feeding brain cells drugs that force them to produce a protein called “HSP70” can protect those cells from injury and death – at least in the test tube, according to University of California researchers.</p>
<p>Nobel laureate Peter Agre used his own career as an example to point to the international collaborations through which people from across the globe come together with a shared passion to work on scientific mysteries during his recent talk at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.</p>
<p>A new retrospective study by interventional neuroradiologist, James Tatum, MD, and colleagues at UCSF look at the effectiveness of treating children having stokes with a technique known as "mechanical embolectomy," a standard treatment for stroke in adults.</p>
<p>Preliminary data suggest that when a person has a combination of Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, that produces a clinical syndrome that is difficult to diagnose, according to a UCSF study.</p>
A seminal UCSF study is probing the biological processes affected by extremely low caloric intake in the first broad examination of the psychological profile of successful extreme dieters gauging how they differ from normal eaters and overeaters. WATCH VIDEO.