Archive: Shower Curtains and Your Health
I hope you remember my Science Café interview with Tracey Woodruff, PhD, in 2007. Woodruff spent considerable time discussing different classes of dangerous chemicals. Among them were phthalates.
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Archive: Gladstone's Kreitzer Receives Pew Scholar Award
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Archive: UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research
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Archive: Glenn Lends a Hand to Save Brains, Soothe Hearts
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Archive: Intensive Care Nursery Keeps Central Line Bloodstream Infections Down
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Archive: Turning Fat to Muscle: A Conversation with Growth Factor and Cell Differentiation Expert Rik Derynck
Turning fat cells into muscle could one day be standard therapy.
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Archive: UCSF to Host Spring Retreat to Launch CCTI
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Archive: Chancellor Bishop Named to Royal Society
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Archive: Gladstone's Shinya Yamanaka Wins Prestigious Shaw Prize for Stem Cell Discoveries
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Archive: UCSF Global Health Sciences Offers New, One-Year Master's Degree
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Archive: Three Campus GLBT Leaders to Receive Chancellor's Award
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Archive: Pfizer and UCSF form alliance to advance a broad range of research
In a novel experiment to advance new drug discovery and development, as well as stimulate basic research, Pfizer, Inc. and UCSF have launched a collaboration that spans many disciplines, several UC campuses and multiple Pfizer research units.
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Archive: New study is recruiting smokers who want to quit
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Archive: Scientoons, Anyone?
The Euroscience meeting in July offers an embarrassment of riches.
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Archive: Excessive drinking and relapse rapidly cut in new approach
Boosting the level of a specific brain protein quickly cut excessive drinking of alcohol in a new animal study, and also prevented relapse -- the common tendency found in sober alcoholics to easily return to heavy drinking after just one glass.
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Archive: Computer Security: A Call to Action for Every One of Us
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Archive: Hope for Headaches: A Conversation with Headache Expert Peter Goadsby
Help for headaches starts with you...
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Archive: Alumnus Receives Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award
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Archive: Symposium Addresses Glass Ceiling in the University Setting
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Archive: Volberding to Join Mayor Newsom in Town Hall Discussion About Health Care
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Archive: New Website Chronicles History of UCSF
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Archive: Obesity to Blame for Climate Change?
With the obesity epidemic now firmly established as the health crisis du jour, I don’t want to be accused of piling on. But I could not let pass this BBC News health story posted in mid-May, which seems to transform an interesting point into mean-spiritedness, not to mention point the finger in the wrong direction.
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Archive: UCSF's Yamamoto Endorses AAAS Report on Threats to Science
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Archive: Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows
You may not be what you eat after all. A new study shows that increased eating does not necessarily lead to increased fat. The finding in the much-studied roundworm opens the possibility of identifying new targets for drugs to control weight, the researchers say.
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Archive: Roundworm Sheds Light on Fat Storage
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Archive: Lang Tapped as Space Research Team Leader
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Archive: German Wins 2008 JDRF Award for Scientific Excellence
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Archive: A Conversation About Aging, Life and Death with Medical Anthropologist Sharon Kaufman
Plan your death like you would your life or risk a living death instead...
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Archive: UCSF Stem Cell and Cancer Symposium
Cells in tumors vary. Scientists wonder whether treatments often fail to kill a persistent type of cancerous cell. The goal now is to understand and target these "cancer stem cells."
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Archive: UCSF's Glantz Slams Hollywood's Lax Enforcement of Tobacco Rating
A gadfly with giant wings, UCSF’s Stan Glantz, PhD, knows how to cause a stir.