Archive: UCSF Unveils Centralized Calendar Webpage
<p>Members of the UCSF community have easier access to several different campus calendars with today's launch of a centralized webpage for events and activities.</p>
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Archive: Virtual Colonoscopy Still Has Its Skeptics
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Archive: UCSF School of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2015 With White Coat Ceremony
<p>Incoming medical school students don white coats in an annual ritual marking the start of their education at UCSF, inspiring their professors, others with their dedication, dreams and diverse backgrounds.</p>
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Archive: Promising Signs Emerging from HIV Gene Therapy Trials
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Archive: Older Pills Often Safer But Many Think New is Better
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Archive: Enzyme Might Be Target for Treating Smoking, Alcoholism at Same Time
An enzyme that appears to play a role in controlling the brain's response to nicotine and alcohol in mice might be a promising target for a drug that simultaneously would treat nicotine addiction and alcohol abuse in people.
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Archive: The New Yorker Features Architectural Design of UCSF Stem Cell Building
<p>In the September 19, 2011 issue of <em>The New Yorker</em>, architecture critic Paul Goldberger features UCSF’s Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine as one of three new science buildings in the United States “crafted with the specific intention of fostering interaction and connections, as a means of generating ideas.”</p>
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Archive: Media Advisory: SF Hospital Experts Teach Limb-Saving Techniques to International Surgeons
The UCSF Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT) and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) are holding their second summit to teach international surgeons essential skills to help reduce the number of amputations performed throughout the world.
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Archive: Neuroscience Vs Philosophy: Taking Aim at Free Will
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Archive: Remembering 9/11: Ten Years After
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Archive: Fillers En Vogue for Hands, Temples, Earlobes
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Archive: Bruzzese: Boomers Never Knew it Could Get This Scary
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Archive: HM@15 - Are You Living Up to High Expectations of Efficiency?
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Archive: Advances in Space Medicine Threatened by Funding Cuts, Says Scientist-Astronaut
Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to contribute to the field of space medicine, writes Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, a biologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a former NASA astronaut.
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Archive: Candidates for Mayor Submerged in Crowd
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Archive: New Research Shows Mental Illness Common, Linked to Heart Disease
<p>Mental illnesses, especially depression and anxiety disorders, are common in the United States and Europe according to two new major research reports. They often are untreated, and they are associated with chronic, life threatening health problems, including heart disease.</p>
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Archive: Moderate Drinkers Get Some Good News
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Archive: Media Advisory: UCSF Picnic to Honor Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital will celebrate children who have had bone marrow transplants and their families at the third pediatric bone marrow transplant picnic on September 10.
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Archive: Warner, Merck Bone Drugs Need Label Changes on Use Duration, Panel Says
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Archive: Gladstone Scientist Finds New Target For Treating Symptoms of Parkinson's Disease
A scientist at the Gladstone Institutes has identified how the lack of a brain chemical known as dopamine can rewire the interaction between two groups of brain cells and lead to symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. This discovery offers new hope for treating those suffering from this devastating neurodegenerative disease.
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Archive: UC Provost Lawrence Pitts to Retire in February 2012
<p>Lawrence Pitts, professor emeritus of neurosurgery at UCSF, will retire in February 2012 after nearly three years as the University of California’s provost and executive vice president-academic affairs.</p>
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Archive: Movie Review: We Were Here (2010)
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Catches Up With EHR Deployment
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Archive: Media Advisory: UCSF Experts on 9/11-Related Health Topics Available for Media Interviews
The tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 is just days away. UCSF is making available some of its world-class experts to talk about potential long-term medical implications from the events of 9/11.
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Archive: What Hospitals Can Learn From the DMV About Wait Times
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Archive: Hospitals New No. 1 Industry in SF, Report Shows
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Archive: Symposium Highlights Breadth, Depth of Biomedical Imaging Research
<p>For eight years now the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging has showcased its discoveries, its hard work and its hopes for the future at an event called the Imaging Research Symposium.</p>
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Archive: Hospital Easy Sell for Salesforce's Benioff, Wife
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Archive: UCSF, UC Merced to Study Effectiveness of Anti-Tobacco Programs
Researchers with the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Merced will examine the effectiveness of state and local anti-smoking programs across the United States to ensure that health authorities are able to use their increasingly limited resources to support and defend the most effective approaches.
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Archive: Adolescent Window of Breast Cancer Risk Explained in Award-Winning Video
<p>Exposure of girls to toxins and hormone-disrupting chemicals in the environment are suspected of increasing risk for breast cancer."The Breast Biologues," is an award-winning video that explains research by the Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center.</p>