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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: Successful City/UCSF Welfare-to-Work Partnership Honors Graduates
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Archive: Garment Saves Mothers From Postpartum Hemorrhage
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Archive: Keeping it Local: Protecting the Brain Starts at the Synapse
New research by scientists at UC San Francisco shows that one of the brain’s fundamental self-protection mechanisms depends on coordinated, finely calibrated teamwork among neurons and non-neural cells.
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Archive: Traumatic Brain Injury Research Advances with $18.8M NIH Award
The National Institutes of Health is awarding $18.8 million, administered through UCSF, to support worldwide research on concussion and traumatic brain injury.
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Archive: Gladstone Scientist to Receive Prestigious Pacesetter Award
Lennart Mucke, MD, who directs neurological research at the Gladstone Institutes, next week will receive the ARCS Foundation’s 2013 Pacesetter Award.
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Archive: Three on UCSF Faculty Elected to Institute of Medicine
Three UCSF faculty members are among the 70 newly elected members of the Institute of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the health sciences.
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Archive: Gallo Center Announces New Awards for $20M Army-Funded Research Program
The UCSF-affiliated Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center has issued a second round of grants to accelerate the discovery and development of new medications to treat alcohol and substance abuse in the context of post-traumatic stress and combat injury.
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Archive: Study to Determine Effects of Singing in Choirs on Seniors
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Archive: Napolitano Reflects on First Two Weeks as UC President
Newly appointed University of California President Janet Napolitano shared a letter to the UC community.
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Archive: UCSF Researcher Makes Sense of Conflicting Advice on Calcium Intake
In recent years, studies have reported inconsistent findings regarding whether calcium supplements used to prevent fractures increase the risk of heart attack.
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Archive: UCSF’s Clarissa Kripke wins Chancellor Award for Disability Service
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Archive: Just Say No: When It Makes Sense Not to Take Your Medicine
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Archive: Prions May Develop Drug Resistance: The Implications for Mad Cow, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
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Archive: Teens Turned Away from Tanning Salons, That’s the Good News
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Archive: UCSF Studying Health of S.F. Seniors in Choirs
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Archive: Genetic Discovery Could Help Guide Doctors’ Treatment of Bladder Cancers
A UCSF-led team of scientists has discovered that a gene mutation found in some bladder cancers is indicative of low-risk tumors that are unlikely to recur or progress after surgery.
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Archive: Can Singing Lead To A Longer, Healthier Life?
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Archive: Weakness Found in 'Triple Negative' Breast Cancer
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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: The Science of Staying Younger Longer
The Science of Staying Younger Longer is a by-invitation symposium and panel discussion highlighting advances in scientific understanding of the biological underpinnings of aging and ideas for how to slow down age-associated disease and decline.
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Archive: Discovery on Cell Growth Could Target Cancer
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Archive: National Institute of Health Launches $25 Million Study on Newborn Genetic Testing
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Archive: In a Surprise Finding, Gene Mutation Found Linked to Low-Risk Bladder Cancer
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Archive: Cluster Headaches Are Linked With Unusual Brain Connectivity
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Archive: Team Develops Targeted Therapies for Pain and Inflammation
Through support from the Catalyst Awards, UCSF researcher Aditi Bhargava is working to develop a method for delivering small-molecules to a specific target group of cells for treatment of pain.
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Archive: Childbirth Not Major Contributor to Women's Sexual Dysfunction
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Archive: Researchers Develop Stem Cell Therapies for Acute Lung Injury
A team of UCSF researchers developing cell-based therapies for acute respiratory distress syndrome benefited from advisors who helped identify gaps in their development plan.
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Archive: New Drug-Delivery System Will Improve Lives of Patients with Chronic Eye Diseases
A UCSF opthamologist and bioengineer are collaborating to develop a tiny, flexible, implantable film that's able to deliver conventional medicines and also complex antibody-based drugs to treat eye diseases.
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Archive: LaunchPad Focuses on Catalyzing Early Stage Research: Q&A with Ruben Rathnasingham
Ruben Rathnasingham, PhD, associate director of Early Translational Research at UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is leading the team responsible for LaunchPad. In this Q&A, he discusses the project and how it can benefit researchers.
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Archive: UCSF Researchers Develop Novel Methods to Observe Disease Processes
Teams of scientists at UCSF are collaborating to build upon existing imaging techniques and find new ways to monitor diseases using creative applications of emerging technologies.