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US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman visited UCSF recently, saying that education may finally be getting the funds it deserves to repair the country’s broken school system.
The Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative (MMTI) aims to promote collaborative research efforts and accelerate the transition of promising cancer therapies from the lab to the hospital.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and collaborators at Harvard Medical School have linked a specialized protein in human muscles to the process that clears glucose out of the bloodstream, shedding light on what goes wrong in type 2 diabetes on a cellular level.
Tackling health threats and improving quality of life were clearly goals that this year’s student researchers had in mind when selecting their projects, which they presented May 19 at a symposium in Millberry Union.
A special seminar at UCSF on Saturday, May 30, will focus on educating patients and families with inherited heart rhythm disorders about advancements in genetic research and treatment and the potential risks to these patients posed by certain medications and athletic activity.
Yuet Wai Kan, an internationally recognized leader in the field of genetics, was recently elected to the American Philosophical Society.
The campus community is invited to the premiere screening of a Public Affairs-produced film titled, “UCSF in India: Cigarettes Clouding the Economic Rise,” at the World No Tobacco Day event at UCSF on May 29.
After just one month of training with a new, high-tech mobility assistance device, a group of UCSF patients showed significant improvements in walking speed, balance, stride length and endurance.
UCSF is partnering with Silicon Valley companies and the United Nations Foundation to host the first in a series of forums to explore how mobile technology applications can be used to solve global health problems.
A performance piece of works by teenage patients at UCSF Children’s Hospital offered an honest, no-holds-barred look at the experience of chronic illness and prolonged hospitalization.
The outcome of the May 19 state ballot propositions means that the University of California will be facing significant budget reductions in the 2009-10 fiscal year. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised state budget proposal alone calls for a cut of $322 million, and when combined with the state's underfunding of student enrollments and inflationary cost increases, UC's total budget gap would amount to $531 million.
To prepare for the total impact of revenue reductions and expense increases, the UCSF School of Medicine is developing a plan to absorb $170 million over the next three years if the economic scenario unfolds as projected, according to Interim Dean Sam Hawgood.
A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Baystate Medical Center at Tufts University in Massachusetts concludes that patients facing coronary artery bypass surgery should, as a first priority, select a medical facility that has the highest adherence to quality standards.
An effort led by UCSF’s Richard L. Abbott has prompted the Chinese government to adopt national standards for eye care—the first time China has mandated practice guidelines for any medical specialty.
Eric Liu, an author who was named by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow, will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday, when Nancy Adler, UCSF professor of psychiatry, is recognized for mentoring.
UCSF Global Health Sciences, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, is hosting a partnership forum for leaders in global health, philanthropy and technology to explore the use of mobile technology to solve global health problems.
The patient-centered medical home -- known as PCMH -- is a prominent model of health care delivery system reform that answers the call for high-quality care at lower overall cost, writes Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH, of UCSF in the May 20, 2009 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Narcolepsy, a sleep disorder that can cause sufferers to suddenly lose muscle tone and start dreaming, is an autoimmune disease, a team led by UCSF and Stanford scientists finds.
A news conference will announce the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial testing the effectiveness of culturally specific programs for Type 2 diabetes in Chinese Americans.
UCSF scientists have created a method of quickly identifying large numbers of the genetic material known as short hairpin RNA — also called shRNA – that turns genes on and off.
UCSF today launches a data security awareness campaign to reinforce the idea that protecting private electronic information is everyone’s responsibility.
Using stem cells in the treatment of type 1 diabetes may begin to be tested in human trials within two to three years, a UCSF researcher noted in a recent forum on stem cell research.
A dozen renowned experts on health care and policy gathered at UCSF recently to discuss the proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care delivery system.
For the second year in a row, UCSF Medical Center received a perfect score in an LGBT equality index report that looks at five categories: patient nondiscrimination, hospital visitation, medical decisionmaking, competence training and employment nondiscrimination.