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Archive: UC President Releases Statement on UC Davis Pepper-Spray Report
UC President Mark Yudof looks forward to working with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to repair the damage caused by the incident involving the use of pepper spray on students on Nov. 18, 2011.
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Archive: UCSF Farmers' Market at Mission Bay Returns April 11
<p>UCSF’s Campus Life Retail Services and Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association (PCFMA) are proud to welcome back the Farmers’ Market at Mission Bay on Wednesday, April 11.</p>
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Archive: To Tweet, or Not to Tweet: Physicians Misusing the Internet
<p>It’s a brave new world online. As the influence of social media widens, the lines between users’ personal and professional lives are blurring. Doctors are no exception. According to a new study published in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)</em>, violations of online professionalism are prevalent among physicians. The study found that 92 percent of state medical boards in the United States have received reports of violations ranging from inappropriate contact with patients to misrepresentation of credentials.</p>
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Issues Call-To-Arms to Patient Advocates
In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a “Google Maps”-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing a call-to-arms to patient advocates to help make that idea a reality.
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Archive: Heart Test Could Predict Future Attacks in Elderly
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Archive: EKG Heart Test May Predict Risk in Older Adults
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Archive: New MRI Technique May Predict Progress of Dementias
A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the possibility of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain diseases, report scientists at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Disaster Resilience Part of Sustainability, Too
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Archive: EKG Can Help Predict Heart Attacks in Healthy Elderly People
Can a simple diagnostic test used to measure a heart’s electrical activity help predict heart attacks? And can that knowledge help doctors reroute their patients away from coronary heart disease?
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Archive: Team Approach to Individualized Childbirth at New Mission Bay Women's Hospital
<p>The new Women’s Specialty Hospital at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will offer abundant opportunities to build on the collegiality UCSF already fosters between patient and provider.</p>
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Archive: Knowledge Is Power
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Archive: EKG Finds Heart-Attack Risk in Some Seniors
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Archive: UCSF to Host World Malaria Day Symposium on April 25
<p>The Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium presents an opportunity to meet, network with, and hear from the many local groups, organizations, and individuals engaged in fightiing the disease. Advanced registration is required.</p>
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Archive: FDA Fast-Tracks Approval Process of 3 Kidney Devices
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Archive: UCSF Artificial Kidney Project Tapped for Accelerated FDA Program
A UCSF-led effort to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients has been selected as one of the first projects to undergo more timely and collaborative review at the Food and Drug Administration.
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Archive: New View of Depression: An Ailment of the Entire Body
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Archive: The Dangers of Too Many Medical Tests
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Archive: Kidney Failure Devices to Receive Fast-Track FDA Reviews
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Archive: Son's Leukemia Sends Mom on Search for Donor
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Archive: NFL Penalty for Bounties Didn't Go Far Enough
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Archive: Nobel Laureate to Talk About Ways to Cure, Prevent Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Diseases
<p>Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner will talk about his prize-winning research about prions during the UCSF Osher Mini Medical School for the Public on April 16.</p>
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Archive: Watch Corey Lee Discuss Science and Cooking with a Harvard Physics Professor
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Archive: Critical Surgery
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Archive: California Baby Born with Webbed Hands, Feet Undergoes Surgery
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Honored by Commonwealth Club
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Archive: American History Alive and Well at UCSF
<p>Let the record reflect: American history is indeed taught at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), one of the world's leading health sciences universities with its founding as a medical school dating back to 1864.</p>
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Archive: Inside UCSF's Mission Bay Hospital
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Archive: UCSF Police Report Armed Robbery at Laurel Heights
<p>A UCSF employee was the victim of an armed robbery at California and Laurel Streets at about 9:10 p.m. on April 4, UCSF police report.</p>
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Archive: Doctors Urged to Cease Gratuitous Tests