Archive: UCSF Salutes Three for Commitment to Advancing Diversity
The UCSF community recognized the stellar efforts of a student as well as faculty and staff members at the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards on Jan. 25.
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Archive: UCSF Opens Space Dedicated to Meditation, Prayer
After receiving a number of requests from individual students and student groups, a quiet space meant for personal reflection, meditation and prayer is now available to members of the UCSF community at the Parnassus campus.
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Archive: Tanzania's Muhimbili University Honors UCSF Global Health Leader
Longtime UCSF leader Haile Debas received honors recently as a new health professional center at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences will be named after him.
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Named Among 10 Most Powerful Women in Silicon Valley
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, was named among the 10 “most powerful women in Silicon Valley” by the San Jose Mercury News.
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Archive: Peralta Receives Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship
Carmen Peralta, assistant professor of medicine, was recognized recently for her outstanding work in the field of racial and ethnic differences in kidney disease detection, progression and complications.
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Archive: New Teaching and Learning Center to Transform Health Education at UCSF
The recent opening of the Teaching and Learning Center represents a model of campuswide collaboration and a renewed commitment to fostering interprofessional health education.
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Archive: Budget Gap Threatens State's Master Plan for Higher Education
The $1 billion budget gap the University of California faces could constrain the system’s ability to meet the growing demand for a UC education, President Mark Yudof told the Board of Regents today (Jan. 19).
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Archive: UCSF Team Views Genome As It Turns On and Off Inside Cells
UCSF researchers have developed a new approach to decoding the vast information embedded in an organism’s genome, while shedding light on exactly how cells interpret their genetic material to create RNA messages and launch new processes in the cell.
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Archive: Mother's Stem Cells Likely Key to Treating Genetic Disease Before Birth
UCSF researchers have tackled a decade-long scientific conundrum, and their discovery is expected to lead to significant advances in using stem cells to treat genetic diseases before birth.
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Archive: Teaching and Learning Center Embraces Interprofessional Education as Future for Health Care
UCSF this week will celebrate the opening of its first interprofessional health educational center, a 22,000-square-foot facility dedicated to team-based learning in a technologically advanced environment.
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Archive: Blood Test Predicts Cognitive Decline, and "Cognitive Reserve" Protects Against That Decline, Study Shows
Low blood levels of beta-amyloid 42, a protein-like substance, were associated with the risk of significant cognitive decline within nine years in a group of elders, in a study led by Kristine Yaffe, MD, chief of geriatric psychiatry at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Archive: The 10 Most Powerful Women in Silicon Valley
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Archive: Media Advisory: UCSF Opens High-Tech Learning Center for New Era of Health Care
UCSF is launching one of the nation’s first inter-professional, team-based simulation learning centers to prepare doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists together for the changing health care landscape.
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Archive: Studies Find Inequalities in Trauma Care Are Widespread
African Americans, the foreign-born, and the near-poor are more likely to encounter barriers to being treated at a trauma center, according to new research reports by UCSF emergency medicine physician and researcher Renee Hsia, and her colleagues.
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Archive: UCSF Opens High-Tech Learning Center for New Era of Health Care
UCSF will launch one of the nation’s first inter-professional, team-based simulation learning centers to prepare doctors, nurses, pharmacists and dentists together for the changing health care landscape.
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Archive: Environmental Health Expert Offers Advice on How to Reduce Exposure to Toxins
Tracey Woodruff, director of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, offers tips on how to avoid everyday toxins in our environment.
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Archive: UCSF Study Identifies Chemicals in Pregnant Women
The bodies of virtually all U.S. pregnant women carry multiple chemicals, including some banned since the 1970s and others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products, according to a new study from UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF to Present Panel on Serving Patients with Disabilities on January 24
The campus community is invited to join a discussion titled “The Medical Experience of Patients with Disabilities” in the UCSF School of Nursing on January 24.
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Archive: Fluoride Levels in Some Water Supplies May be Coming Down
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Archive: Psychiatrist Discusses Tucson Shooting Tragedy on KQED Forum
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Archive: FDA-Approved Drug Shows Promise as Alcoholism Treatment
A medication commonly prescribed as a muscle relaxant shows promise as a potential treatment for alcoholism, based on a study in rats by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Medical Student Claims First-Place Photography Prize with Celestial Image
Noah Hawthorne, a second-year medical student at UCSF, won first place in a student photography contest for his photo titled “Celestial Patriarch.”
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Archive: Study Shows How Stress Causes Extensive Genetic Rewiring
A team of scientists in the United States, South Korea, and Switzerland has uncovered a vast, complex network of 160,000 genetic interactions within yeast cells that changes dramatically when the cells are subjected to stress.
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Archive: Sanofi-Aventis Enters into Two Research & Development Collaborations with UCSF
Sanofi-Aventis and UCSF have formed two research and development collaborations that join together leaders from academia and industry to more rapidly advance groundbreaking innovation from the lab to the patient.
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Archive: Training Improves Cognitive Functioning for Patients with Brain Injury
In a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, a new cognitive training method significantly improved the ability of patients with chronic brain injury to maintain attention on goals and execute tasks – skills that these patients often lack as a result of their injuries.
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Archive: UCSF to Celebrate Contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr. Beginning January 14
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Archive: UCSF School of Medicine Student Remembered for Gentle Nature
Joe Olivares Hernandez, a fourth-year medical student, will be taken off like support, pending arrangements for organ donation, according to Dean Sam Hawgood.
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Archive: Peralta is Awarded Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship
Carmen A. Peralta, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the UCSF School of Medicine, was recognized recently with a 2010 Nickens Faculty Fellowship.
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Archive: UCSF to Celebrate Grand Opening of Teaching and Learning Center
UCSF will celebrate the opening of a new Teaching and Learning Center at the Parnassus from January 18 to 21.
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Archive: Evolution of Cancer Can Shed Light on Drug Resistance
Cancer is a price we pay for evolving into complex creatures. Cancers evolve, too, but a UCSF researcher aims to understand their evolution and to stop their adaptation to natural defenses and treatment.