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A new study looking at unprotected intercourse within gay couples when each partner has established HIV-infection found a correlation between anti-HIV immune response and sexual activity.
Public health experts will convene for a half-day conference to discuss the two presidential candidates’ vastly different suggestions for health care reform and assess the impact of each.
Ever think about your pancreas? Matthias Hebrok does.
The deadline for nominations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Award at UCSF has been extended to October 30.
The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, on the integrative medicine approach to eating disorders.
People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people whose mental abilities have declined, but don’t have MCI, appear to have similar changes in brain structure and function, according to a study at SF VA Medical Center.
A national research group headed by Michael Weiner, MD, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been granted a $6.04 million Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Award from the National Institutes of Health.
UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries -- such as angioplasty and stenting -- found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.
Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.
In what he calls the biggest epilepsy research project in history, UCSF neurologist Dan Lowenstein, along with colleagues at 13 major epilepsy centers, is searching for genes associated with the disease...
Four faculty scientists in the UCSF School of Medicine are among the 65 newly elected members and five foreign associates to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today, Oct. 13.
A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from UCSF and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D.B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.