Archive: University of California to Establish School of Global Health
UC is moving forward with a plan to establish a transdisciplinary school of global health that focuses on finding solutions to major health threats worldwide.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFUC is moving forward with a plan to establish a transdisciplinary school of global health that focuses on finding solutions to major health threats worldwide.
A drug therapy currently used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis had a significant effect in treating the most common form of multiple sclerosis in a small, short-term clinical trial.
UCSF will host four upcoming town hall meetings to work with faculty and staff on developing strategies to improve administration for international projects at UCSF.
Associate Professor Sharon Youmans has been appointed to the new position of associate dean for diversity in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
Children who are overweight have less range of motion in their elbows than their normal-weight peers, which could make it tougher for them to exercise in order to lose weight, the findings of a research study suggest.
UCSF's Amy Levine, who is serving a fellowship at the UC Office of the President, is working to ensure that UC women develop professionally and advance their careers.
Is ergonomics a science? We had all better hope so...
The campus community is invited to exercise its creative side by making greeting cards, as part of UCSF’s celebration of Valentine’s Day beginning tomorrow.
Eighteen mid-career research faculty members have been trained in an innovative mentoring program at UCSF.
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Fetal surgery pioneer ponders a bright future as treatments for fetal conditions become less invasive and ever more successful.
HIV-infected people who have used heroin in the past are just as likely to properly take highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and to benefit from the therapy as people who have never used heroin –– but are much less likely to be prescribed the therapy.
Global health has become the new medical catchphrase in a world gone flat. But for at least the past century, it has been part of UCSF’s cultural DNA.
Don’t forget to vote in today’s primary election.
A gadfly with giant wings, UCSF’s Stan Glantz, PhD, knows how to cause a stir.
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is leading the search for a new dean of the UCSF School of Medicine.
Robin Shaw thinks heart cell comunication holds the secret to future therapies...
Bernard Smith, who served on the UCSF School of Dentistry faculty for 17 years, died following his long battle with leukemia.
War and aging play particular havoc with the human brain, a fact that has mobilized and energized researchers and clinicians at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC).
UCSF will offer free health screenings for cardiovascular health and Hepatitis B to women and families on Saturday.
Jonathan “Jack” Rodnick, a national leader in family medicine, highly effective clinical educator and excellent role model, died unexpectedly on Saturday.
Recent power outages have prompted UCSF safety officials to remind the campus community to use the emergency telephone for a direct line to the UCSF Police when trapped in an elevator.
Morphine's serious side effect as a pain killer – its potential to create dependency – has been almost completely eliminated in research with mice by genetically modifying a single trait on the surface of neurons. The study scientists think a drug can be developed to similarly block dependency.