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I write to acknowledge the shock and grief that the UCSF community is feeling over the incomprehensible shootings and deaths at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). I know you all join me in extending our deepest sympathies to the many individuals and families who are suffering in the wake of this tragedy.
On March 27, technicians at UCSF noticed suspicious activity on a remote server located at the University of California Office of the President. The server, which contained sensitive data for about 46,000 UCSF faculty members, staff and students, was operating slower than usual, and a hacker was determined to be running a program on the server.
Lawyers of alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla have argued that he should not be tried because of questionable interrogation techniques used on him, including the use of truth serums.
Craniofacial expert Karin Vargervik recently received the 2007 Craniofacial Biology Research Award.
A vaccine for treating a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain has shown promise in preliminary data from a clinical trial at the University of California, San Francisco.
Orthopaedic surgeon Rebecca Yu, MD, blogs from Wenzhou, China, where she and Jonathan Lam, MD, PhD, are assisting physicians at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou through an opportunity with Orthopaedics Overseas/Health Volunteers Overseas.
The UCSF Child Care Referral Service's 2007 summer programs guide is now available for distribution to UCSF employees and students.
Does the brain treat alcohol like a food? If so, UCSF neuroscientist Howard Fields wonders why alcoholics don't get full...
Non-high school graduates especially at risk for lower quality of life after prostate cancer treatment
California State Assemblyman Mark Leno will address key issues relating to health care when he visits UCSF on April 20 during the first event of its kind to boost UCSF student political involvement.
The UCSF Pain Management Center and UCSF Pain Center for Advanced Research and Education have been honored jointly as one of six centers of excellence nationwide by the American Pain Society. They are the only award recipients located west of the Mississippi.
All UCSF employees are required to take an online ethics briefing, which takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Two separate bills that would subsidize stem cell research are in Senate debate this week. The White House says President Bush will veto a bill supporting research that destroys viable human embryos. An alternative bill, one supported by the White House, would fund stem cell research on fertilized embryos that are no longer capable of full development.
Four members of the community will help shape the future of the UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Zion.
A woman's chance of undergoing a hysterectomy can now be accurately predicted, according to new UCSF study findings.
Pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine explains the latest findings on the differences between male and female brains.
On <i>View from the Bay</i>, Louanne Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, discusses how hormones and the environment go hand in hand, and the effects they can have on relationships.
Would you have the courage and the confidence to pose nude after age 50? Two Bay Area women did, as part of a national advertising campaign.
The new T-Third Street Light Rail begins full services Saturday, which warrants some changes to the UCSF shuttle routes.
The public is invited to join the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at the spring quarter of UCSF's Mini Medical School, presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSF.
More than 100 members of the UC Faculty Associates heard about advances in medicine and toured UCSF Mission Bay recently.
Brain damage that was thought to be caused by hypoglycemic coma actually occurs when glucose is administered to treat the coma, according to a study in rodents led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Local artist Bob Ankers shows his sense of humor and flair for food in a new exhibit opening at the UCSF Faculty/Alumni House.
UCSF has established a website and hotline number for those seeking more information about concerns over identity theft.
UCSF is notifying students, faculty, and staff that their personal information may have been accessed by an unauthorized party due to a possible compromise in security of a computer server. The server did not contain any patient names or patient information.
In May, the UC Board of Regents is expected to give UCSF Medical Center the approval to begin fundraising for its new hospital at Mission Bay, scheduled to open in 2013. The $1.2 billion hospital complex, part of the UCSF Medical Center, will be among the first in the nation devoted exclusively to the care of women and children, and cancer.