University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF
Displaying 10681 - 10710 of 16858
-
-
Archive: Sperm Discoveries Shed Light on Infertility and Birth Control
<p>Sperm penetrates egg to complete fertilization is a happy ending hard to reach for many couples, but recent research findings — including the discovery of how progesterone attracts sperm to the egg — are engendering new ideas about birth control and infertility.</p>
-
Archive: New York Times Profiles UCSF Chancellor: An Innovator Shapes an Empire
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Oct. 11, 2011 edition of the <em>New York Times</em>, which is reprinted here according to a license agreement with the University.</p>
-
Archive: UCSF Expert At Odds With New Prostate Screening Recommendations
-
Archive: UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Profiled in The New York Times
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 edition of The New York Times, in an article titled, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11profile.html?_r=3">An Innovator Shapes an Empire</a>.” Noting that UCSF is “widely regarded among scientists as one of the nation’s crown jewels of biomedical research, and a birthplace of biotechnology and innovation,” reporter Denise Grady highlights Desmond-Hellmann’s goal of making UCSF “the world’s pre-eminent health sciences innovator.”</p>
-
Archive: 40 Million TB Deaths Due to Smoking Over Next 40 years
Smoking could cause 18 million more cases of tuberculosis worldwide over the next 40 years and 40 million additional deaths.
-
Archive: UCSF Offers Free Flu Shots to Faculty, Staff and Students
<p>UCSF continues to offer free flu shots to faculty, staff, students and volunteers through October 21.</p>
-
Archive: UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay to Meet Demands of Information Age
<p>Chief Medical Information Officer Michael Blum sees the construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay as an opportunity to integrate new media and social media to improve the work flows of care providers and the experiences of patients and their families.</p>
-
Archive: Prostate cancer test advice creates confusion
-
Archive: UCSF MRI Technology Center Gets $5 Million NIH Grant to Develop Powerful New Imaging System
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded $5.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to advance new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that may offer doctors the chance to rapidly create scans of tumors and other diseased tissue that are far more detailed than any method now being used.
-
Archive: Experts Discuss Personalized Medicine and Gene Discoveries in Disease at Genetics Symposium
<p>Personalized medicine and new gene discoveries in human disease were a focus of a daylong symposium hosted by the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics on the Mission Bay campus on Oct. 3.</p>
-
Archive: Chancellor Shares Vision for UCSF to Become World's Preeminent Health Sciences Innovator
<p>In her third year as Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of <em>advancing health worldwide</em>.</p>
-
Archive: UCSF Technology Center Wins $5.5M NIH Grant for New MRI Research
-
Archive: Insurers Review Whether to Still Pay for Routine Screening
-
Archive: Dr. Q, Former UCSF Medical Resident, Returns to Campus on October 10
<p>Former UCSF medical resident and stem cell researcher Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, will return to the University to speak about his time at UCSF on October 10 as part of the University's celebration of diversity.</p>
-
Archive: Study: 69 million must travel longer to a trauma center
-
Archive: Jobs's Rare Disease Ran Predictable Course
-
Archive: $6.3 Million Center at UCSF and UC Davis Seeks Ways to Diagnose and Prevent Osteoarthritis
How people walk, jump and run and how their knees look in an MRI scanner may hold the secret to predicting years or even decades in advance whether they will develop osteoarthritis, the common degenerative joint disease that strikes half of all Americans by the time they reach the age of 70.
-
Archive: Longer Trips to the ER, Especially for Minorities and Poor
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Closures of hospital trauma centers are disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured and African American populations, and nearly a fourth of Americans are now forced to travel farther than they once did.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span> </span></span></p>
-
Archive: Symposium to Feature Health Care Disparities Research on October 7
<p>The campus community is invited to UCSF's fifth annual Health Disparities Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 7. </p>
-
Archive: Spiracur Donates 25 SNaP Wound Care Systems for UCSF IGOT Use and Training in Tanzania
-
Archive: SF Mayoral Candidates Face Off at UCSF Mission Bay
-
Archive: Chancellor Outlines Three-Year Plan for UCSF
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann on Tuesday outlined a new vision for UCSF — to be the world's preeminent health sciences innovator — as part of a three-year plan.</p>
-
Archive: UCSF Dermatologists Pen Book to Promote Education of Rare Disorders That Cause Hair Loss
<p>UCSF dermatologist Vera Price and her former fellow, Paradi Mirmirani wrote a book to help residents better understand and treat Cicatricial alopecia, a group of rare disorders that cause permanent hair loss.</p>
-
Archive: Why Universities Are Key to the Future of Biotech, and How UCSF's Chief is Showing the Way
-
Archive: Pursuit of Health Care Quality Standards May Harm the Elderly
Gauging the quality of patient care through measurements currently used by insurers and health care systems may be harming older patients, according to Sei Lee, MD, MAS, a geriatrician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
-
Archive: Chancellor's State of the University Address Transcript
<p>This is the transcript of UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann's State of the University address on Oct. 4, 2011.</p>
-
Archive: Daughter's Hospitalization Renews Architect's Commitment to New UCSF Medical Center
<p>Herb Moussa, an architect working on construction of the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, credits UCSF with saving the life of his youngest daughter, Sarah.</p>
-
Archive: Asthma Treatment May Be Headed Toward Personalized Medicine
<p>Asthma patients could clearly benefit from personalized medicine, a new study suggests. However, the new discovery of a key gene, while exciting, does not mean that day is here quite yet.</p>
-
Archive: UCSF Students Pack Classroom to Learn About Health Care Reform
<p>A year after the passage of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, students at UCSF are showing up in large numbers to learn about the landmark legislation thanks to a student-coordinated elective that brought the topic into the classroom two years before they were scheduled to learn about it.</p>