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San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, set to become the first female Speaker of the House in history, was among those to recognize Charlene Harrington for a lifetime of contributions recently.
Venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers, UCSF scientists have discovered.
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"The injected cells survive and slow down abnormal heart rhythms," says Jeffrey Olgin, MD, the physician and researcher who heads the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service at UCSF.
A protein that contributes to the rejection of transplanted hearts has been identified by a UCSF research team. The finding raises hopes for future developments that may boost transplant success and reduce the side effects of current anti-rejection drugs.
Words like "pioneering," "original," and "premier," can sometimes overstate a single person's contributions to any field, let alone a medical research specialty, which often moves along lines of collaboration and consensus.
The campus community recently saluted best practices in achieving diversity among faculty and staff at UCSF.
In his 41 years as a professor and electrophysiologist at UCSF, Melvin Scheinman, MD, has shocked thousands of hearts back to health with a procedure called ablation therapy.
UCSF has formed a new organization to better serve the academic and administrative information technology needs of the University.
A discussion about the health and human rights among women in Afghanistan today, sponsored by the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.
Systems expert Chao Tang thinks an explosive new chapter in scientific history will soon remodel biology.
Established in 1986 in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is marking its 20th anniversary and its evolution as a national and global leader in designing and testing HIV prevention interventions.
CEO Mark Laret says "we are going to need to look deep inside ourselves and our organization to understand what it is going to take to succeed" in a new era of accountability and performance.
UCSF Medical Center will team up with the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Stanford University Medical Center to host a free seminar for patients and families living with the lung disorder known as IPF, or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
A $46 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new treatments for severe diarrhea will focus much of its initial support on potential, new drugs discovered at UCSF. Diarrhea is a leading killer of children under the age of 5 worldwide and kills about 5 million people a year.
Professor Emeritus Felix Kolb wrote a book about surviving a health care crisis from his own perspective as a patient and longtime practitioner.
Fun was the prescription at UCSF Children's Hospital on Tuesday as children went door-to-door – or nursing station-to-nursing station – trick-or-treating for Halloween.
Longtime nurse Inez Weiging had only a few parting words upon her retirement: "Please take care my babies. Take care of them and love them."
<i>Forum </i>discusses breast cancer in younger women; looks at prevention, diagnosis, and research; and examines some of the less-traditional approaches for treatment.
Studies show that Asian populations have a lower incidence of chronic diseases, such as cancer, than their Western counterparts. One such study, by the National Cancer Institute, found that whites had a 65 percent higher rate of cancer mortality than Asian-Pacific Islanders from the years 1998 to 2002.
Everyone at UCSF with an identification badge is encouraged to get a free flu shot available at multiple campus locations beginning today.
UCSF Police ask anyone who sees a convicted thief and known trespasser on UCSF property to immediately call them.
With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.
UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.
Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.
Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.
Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.