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Archive: Pharmaceutical Industry Seeks Stronger Ties with Academia in Bid to Speed Up Drug Development
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Archive: UCSF Medical Students Create Free Medical Translation App, Conquering Language Barriers to Patient Care
<p>What started as a 2 a.m. conversation over coffee between two fourth-year medical students, ended with the development of a free mobile medical translation application with the potential to profoundly impact patient care worldwide that has more than 8,000 downloads to date on iTunes.</p>
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Archive: Cigarette Packages Will Tell Ugly Truth in 2012
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Archive: Study Finds Benefits Of Sleeping On A Hammock
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Archive: Free Dental Care Gives Uninsured a Reason to Smile
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Archive: Healthcare Workers' Personal Hygiene
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Archive: San Francisco General Hospital Appoints Two New Senior Medical Staff Officers
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Archive: Research Faculty Asked to Rate Pre-Award Services in Emailed Survey
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Archive: In Tiny Worm, Unlocking Secrets of the Brain
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Archive: A Genetic Factor is Linked to Long-Term Success of Leg Bypass Surgery
Outcomes of bypass surgery to repair blocked arteries in the legs tend to be better in the roughly one-in-five people who have inherited a specific genetic variation from both parents, according to a study presented at the late-breaking clinical trials session of the Vascular Annual Meeting in Chicago on June 18, 2011.
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Archive: Study Finds Botox Alternative Better at Smoothing 'Crow's Feet'
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Archive: UC's QB3 Bioscience and Cleantech Incubator Arrives at Old Twinkies Bakery Site in Berkeley
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Archive: UCSF Nurse Calls Attention to Indoor Air Pollution in Guatemala
<p>UCSF family practice nurse Lisa Thompson is calling attention to the dangers of rustic stoves – which use biomass fuels such as wood, coal, animal dung and crop residue – and result in harmful pollutants adversely affecting people in developing countries.</p>
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Archive: A Multi-Faceted Poison
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Archive: Botox Rival Shows Crow's Feet Advantage in Study
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Archive: Boy's Cancer Has Met Its Match
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Archive: Soda Consumption Down Among High School Students
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Archive: John Plotts, UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration
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Archive: Media Advisory: Reunion, Community Health Fair Celebrate 100 Years at Mount Zion Hospital Hellman Building
Celebration of the centennial of the Hellman Building, the first Mount Zion Hospital built from the ground up. The building, state-of-the-art for its time, still stands today and remains dedicated to patient care.
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Archive: Cuts the Only Certainty
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Archive: Free Dental Care Gives Uninsured a Reason to Smile
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Archive: UC Fundraisers See Promising Signs as Need Rises
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Archive: New Website Answers What Works in Global Health
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new web portal this month that summarizes findings for a range of prevention and treatment interventions designed to reduce the risk of death and disease in the developing world.</p>
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Archive: Measuring and Lowering Your Health Risks
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Archive: Making Translation Work
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Archive: U.S. Medicaid Drug Lists Cost More, Deliver Less
The U.S. Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available, by ignoring international evidence-based lists of safe and effective medications, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: Turning to Software to Help Treat Brain Injuries
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Archive: FDA Approves Transplant Drug That Preserves Kidneys, Avoids Toxicity
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Archive: Mount Zion Anniversary Event on June 18 Celebrates Past, Present and Future
<p>The public is invited to attend a community health fair on June 18, offering opportunities to interact with representatives from many of the great programs and services at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion and featuring presentations about health, live music and neighborhood food.</p>