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Archive: Leaders Convene at Town Hall to Unveil Covered California at UCSF
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi came to UCSF to unveil California’s plan to implement the Affordable Care Act – the creation of a health care marketplace called Covered California.
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Archive: Master Gardeners: What Can Sustainable Farming Can Teach Us About Well-Being
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Archive: UCSF Hires Director of its Center for LGBT Health and Equity
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Archive: UCSF, Children's Oakland Sign Affiliation Agreement Set to Close by Early 2014
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Archive: In Some Cities, Gays Face Greater Risk Of Becoming Homeless
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Archive: When a Carcinoma Isn't Actually a Cancer
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Archive: ER Docs Can Tell Difference Between Stroke and Bell’s Palsy
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Archive: Find Furthers Cancer, Stem Cell Therapies Research
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Archive: Health Care Alliance Begins to Pay Off for S.F.
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Archive: Researchers Discover Leukemia's Role in Inhibiting Immune Cell Development
UCSF’s Emmanuelle Passegué, an expert on how the blood system arises during development, recently led a study in which researchers discovered how leukemia, a blood cancer, can gain a stronghold in bone marrow and inhibit the development of normal immune cells.
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Archive: Scientists Devise Innovative Method to Profile and Predict the Behavior of Proteins
A team of investigators led by UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes has found a way to map an enzyme’s underlying molecular machinery, revealing patterns that could allow them to predict how an enzyme behaves – and what happens when this process disrupted.
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Archive: Type 1 Diabetes Drug Proves Effective in Clinical Trial
An experimental drug designed to block the advance of type 1 diabetes in its earliest stages has proven strikingly effective over two years in about half of the patients who participated in the phase 2 clinical trial, UCSF and Yale University report.
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Archive: California Researchers Develop Survey to Measure Risk of Delirium in Hospitalized Patients
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Archive: Life in the Dark - Man's Rare Photosensitivity
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Archive: New Tool Helps Detect Delirium in Hospital Patients
UCSF researchers have developed a two-minute assessment tool to help hospital staff predict a patient’s risk of delirium, a change in mental cognition characterized by severe confusion and disorientation that can prolong hospital stays.
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Archive: UCSF Profiles Wins UC Technology Award
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Archive: New Wearable Device Helps Blind Patients See Shapes and Colors
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Archive: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Among Leaders in California on Breastfeeding Rates
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital has one of the highest rates of "exclusive breastfeeding" – new mothers feeding only breast milk and no formula – in California, according to a new state report.
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Archive: Aging America: Live to 120? Most say no thanks
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Archive: Study: 20 Pct Fewer Ambulance Calls to Colorado Casinos Since Smokefree Law Was Instituted
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Archive: Nanoscale Medical Devices Can Have Huge Effects
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Archive: When Treating Abnormal Breast Cells, Sometimes Less Is More
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Archive: Young Homeless Girls at Greater STD Risk
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Archive: Ex-homeless Life a Challenge, but Some Flourish
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Archive: Smoke-Free Casinos Reduce Medical Emergencies
Commercial casinos are often exempt from smoke-free workplace laws, but a new study led by UCSF has found that when smoking is banned in casinos, it results in considerably fewer emergency calls for ambulances.
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Archive: Rare Brain Disease Patients Show Progress 2 Years After Stem Cells Transplant
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Archive: UCSF Commuters Urged to Make Contingency Plans for 2nd Possible BART Strike
A second possible strike by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) labor unions is threatening to disrupt the commutes of many UC San Francisco employees, so they should make contingency transportation plans.
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Archive: Exercise No Help Against Hot Flashes: Study
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Archive: Kids Receive Free Dental Screenings at Mission Sunday Streets
UCSF School of Dentistry students hit the Sunday Streets event in the city’s Mission District last weekend to offer free oral exams to children.