Archive: Study Debunks Autism as a Primarily Genetic Disorder
A rigorous study of nearly 400 twins has shown that environmental factors have been underestimated, and genetics overestimated, for their roles in autism-spectrum disorders.
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Archive: Brain Research and the Challenge of Aging
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Archive: Study: Environmental Factors May Be Just as Important as Genes in Autism
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Archive: Study Shows Flame Retardants May Be Harmful
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Archive: When Should Women Begin Having Mammograms?
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Archive: Which Birth Control Now?
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Archive: New Study Implicates Environmental Factors in Autism
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Archive: Many SF School Cafeterias Parched as Tap Water Deadline Looms
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Archive: Daphne Stannard: Strengthening Ties Between Research and Hospital Nursing
<p>Daphne Stannard’s story mirrors an important shift in nursing: the tightening connection between the ivory tower and the practice setting or, as the nurse researcher puts it, “diminishing the dichotomy between academia and service.”</p>
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Archive: UCSF Scientists Working to 'Program' E-Coli
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Archive: Champion Charities Gives UCSF $2.5 Million to Tackle Brain Disease
<p>Former NFL players Harris Barton and Ronnie Lott recently presented a check for $2.5 million on behalf of Champion Charities to UCSF’s Brain Tumor Research Center to support its mission to eradicate brain disease.</p>
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Archive: 3 S.F. Hospitals, Kaiser Lauded for LGBT Care
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Archive: Gladstone Institutes Ranked No. 1 Academic Employer
The Gladstone Institutes has been named America’s best place to work in academia, capping a seven-year stint in which readers of <i>The Scientist</i> have ranked the independent biomedical-research organization among academia’s top ten places to work.
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Archive: The 2011 Hot 20 Under (And Over) 40 Readers'
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Archive: Cured Meats Not Linked to Pancreatic Cancer
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Archive: UCSF Names Lium to Lead New Innovation Office
<p>Erik Lium has been named assistant vice chancellor of UCSF's newly created Office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances to provide the strategic leadership to both support innovation on campus and foster external alliances to advance biomedical research.</p>
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Archive: Mixed Report on Women's Health Research
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Earns Perfect Healthcare Equality Index Score for Fifth Consecutive Year
UCSF Medical Center today became the only institution in the United States to receive a perfect score on the LGBT Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) for five consecutive years.
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Archive: Gay rights group: Bay Area Hospitals Lead the Way in LGBT "Equality" Standings
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Archive: UCSF-Led Team Decodes Evolution of Skin and Ovarian Cancer Cells
A team of researchers led by scientists at UCSF has developed a way to uncover the evolution of human cancer cells, determining the order in which mutations emerge in them as they wend their way from a normal, healthy state into invasive, malignant masses.
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Archive: Ovarian Cancer Outcomes May Improve with "Dose-Dense" Chemotherapy
<p>UCSF gynecologic oncologist John K. Chan, MD, is leading a nationwide endeavor to evaluate a new strategy called “dose-dense” chemotherapy to improve treatment outcomes for women with ovarian cancer.</p>
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Archive: Researchers Look at Abortion 'Stigma'
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Receives Honorary Degree from Princeton
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann was among six distinguished individuals to receive an honorary degree from Princeton University during commencement exercises on May 31.</p>
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Archive: Teen Drug Use Is Number One Health Problem in US, Study Says
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Archive: MediBabble Attacks Language Barriers at the Doctor's Office
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Archive: Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Announces Retirement
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Archive: New Funding Supports Fight Against the Greatest Challenges of Preventing and Treating Diabetes
<p>The UCSF Diabetes Family Fund for Innovative Patient Care, Education and Scientific Discovery, created by one anonymous donor who is committed to diabetes research, is financing 11 projects that support creative, collaborative and imaginative innovations in diabetes clinical care, patient education, medical training and clinical and basic research. </p>
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Archive: Mapping the Brain with Philip Sabes, PhD
<p>By mapping neurons and neuron circuitry during movement, Sabes’ lab hopes to one day to be able to print this information back into the brain. If feasible, such therapy could offer new hope to stroke victims whose brains are unable to recover on their own.</p>
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Archive: New Life for Damaged Nerves with Hubert Kim, MD, PhD
<p>Each year, scores of soldiers wounded by explosives suffer from debilitating nerve injuries that render their arms and legs useless. Kim’s research, performed at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs hospital, has led to development of artificial nerve grafts to accelerate healing of these injuries.</p>
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Archive: What Happened to the Family Doctor?