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Archive: VA Nurses Scrutinized After Patient Deaths in Two States
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Archive: Killing in War Linked with Suicidal Thoughts Among Vietnam Veterans, Study Finds
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: Greater Traumatic Stress Linked with Elevated Inflammation in Heart Patients
Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Nurses Take Lead In Another San Francisco Reform
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Archive: More Suicide During Economic Low Point
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Archive: Nursing School Dean: A Life of Listening and Caring
<p>UCSF's first male dean of the School of Nursing, David Vlahov, PhD, RN, an epidemiologist who specializes in partnering with community organizations to improve urban health, was profiled recently in a front page story in the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>.</p>
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Archive: David Vlahov Is New UCSF Nursing School Dean
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Archive: Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans With Pain, PTSD Prescribed More Opiates Than Other Veterans With Pain
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health diagnoses were significantly more likely to be prescribed opiates for pain than other veterans with pain, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: Police Force's Sloppy Investigations Leave Abuse of Disabled Unsolved
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Archive: Glide Health Services Recognized as National Model
<p>UCSF’s Patricia Dennehy, director of the nurse-managed Glide Health Services center, is among five Californians to receive the 2012 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Awards today for applying proven, innovative approaches to some of the state’s most difficult problems.</p>
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Archive: Media Advisory: Black History Month Conference
<p>The Second Annual Florence Stroud Black History Month Conference Series presents a special symposium, "<em>Joining Forces: Answering the Call to Serve Military Families.</em>'' The event will focus on the myriad challenges facing members of the military and their families, including post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide, and other psychological issues.</p>
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Archive: Report Finds Flaws in Largest For-Profit Nursing Homes
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Archive: The Coming Nursing Home Shortage
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Archive: Saving Dogs with Spinal Cord Injuries
Dogs with spinal cord injuries may soon benefit from an experimental drug being tested by researchers at UCSF and Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences — work that they hope will one day help people with similar injuries.
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Archive: Joan Aragone: New UCSF Report Shows More Deficiencies with For-Profit Nursing Homes
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Archive: Lower Quality of Care, Fewer Nurses at For-Profit Nursing Homes
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Archive: Let the Games Begin
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Archive: Stress Response Predictor in Police Officers May Be Relevant for Military
Police academy recruits who showed the greatest rise in the stress hormone cortisol after waking up in the morning were more likely to show acute stress symptoms in response to trauma years later as police officers, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, UCSF and New York University Langone Medical Center.
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Archive: A Growing Number of Registered Nurses in California, U.S.
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Archive: New California Nursing Graduates Find It Hard to Get Hired
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Archive: Low Staffing and Poor Quality of Care at Nation's For-Profit Nursing Homes
The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes, according to a UCSF-led analysis.
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Archive: Retraining the Brain - All Is not Lost, Despite Aging, Injuries, or Mental Illness
<p>Our mature brains may not be so old and inflexible after all. Scientists are discovering that the human brain can improve its performance to counter the consequences of cognitive impairment and even the trauma of stroke-induced brain damage.</p>
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Archive: Future Napa Nurse Interprets on Medical Mission to Peru
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Archive: Sausalito Launches Homeless Aid Program, Will Seek Out Those on the Water
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Archive: SF Empower Helps Diabetics with Mental Illness
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Archive: UCSF School of Nursing Rallies for the Future
<p>For two days, the UCSF School of Nursing faculty and staff pondered its long term future, sketching the beginnings of an ambitious blueprint to guide the nursing program over the next five years.</p>
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Archive: UCSF Faculty Put 9/11 in Context
<p>On the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Sept. 11, faculty members reflect on the psychological toll the tragedy took. </p>
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Archive: Union Organizing Shifts to White-Collar Jobs, Especially in Hospitals
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Archive: Seeing a Health Expert Leads to Higher Rate of Flu Shots
As flu season approaches, health care providers need to do more to improve rates of influenza immunizations in lower-income communities, according to new research that identifies the factors that most influence when people obtain flu shots.