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Archive: Nurses Urge Pelosi and Others to Back the Robin Hood Tax
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Archive: HIV & The Affordable Care Act
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Archive: San Francisco - UCSF Nursing Earns Magnet Recognition
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Archive: UCSF Nursing Achieves Magnet Status for Excellence in Patient Care and Innovation
<p>UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital have earned the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.</p>
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Archive: Phone Follow-Up Can Backfire in Rural HF Patients
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Archive: iPad App Delivers 3D Views into Anatomy
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Archive: Graduate Medical Education to Undergo Review by IOM Committee
<p><span>Kathy Dracup, dean emeritus of the UCSF School of Nursing, has been named to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) ad hoc committee to conduct an independent review of the graduate medical education system and make recommendations on how to better produce a medical workforce for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</span></p>
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Archive: 10 Things Assisted-Living Homes Won't Tell You
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Archive: Deserve to Die Campaign
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Archive: Calif. Medical Industry Seems Poised for Greater Expansion
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Archive: East Bay Doctor Under Fire for Large Prescriptions of Addictive Painkillers
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Archive: FINS: Health-Care Jobs in the Balance With Court Ruling
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Archive: Fate of Obama's Health Law in Supreme Court Will Be Felt Around State
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Archive: CalPERS to Raise Health Care Premiums 9.6 Percent
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Archive: Dipsea Champ Rivers Can't Wait for 'Dipsea Day'
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Archive: Researchers Discover Better Care for Kids with Crohn's
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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