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UCSF Children's Hospital pediatrician Shannon Thyne, MD, will be featured tonight on KQED Channel 9's <i>Ask a Pediatrician </i>live call-in program, which will focus on childhood obesity, asthma, and oral health.
UCSF is one of 16 community-based demonstration projects throughout the nation to promote World Breastfeeding Week 2006.
The UCSF Osher Center of Integrative Medicine today announced the appointment of Donald I. Abrams, MD, professor of clinical medicine, as the center's new director of clinical programs.
Four nurse-scholars with the UCSF/John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence have been awarded scholarships of $100,000 or fellowships of $125,000 to allow them to make a two-year, full-time commitment to research, teaching and leadership in geriatric nursing.
UCSF's Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, participated in a small roundtable lunch meeting yesterday at Genentech Inc. with biotechnology leaders from the region and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The efforts of Mort Cowan, MD, director of UCSF's Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program, were explored in an article by Rick Halstead in the <i>Marin Independent Journal</i>.
Older patients with atrial fibrillation have higher rates of major hemorrhage in the brain whether or not they are using a common blood thinning therapy, according to a new study.
The <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> profiles Yiming Shao, MD, PhD, director of virology and immunology at the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention in Beijing, and his long professional relationship with Jay Levy, MD.
The number of Americans stricken by a deadly and debilitating bone-thinning disease continues to climb. According to a 2004 Surgeon General's report, more than half of Americans age 50 and older are at risk for osteoporosis – porous bones.
At the World Transplant Congress (WTC) in Boston on July 24, Stephen Tomlanovich, MD, presented the findings of a three-month, prospective, open-label, two-cohort research study in which renal transplant patients were switched from mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) to enteric-coated myfortic, reducing the incidence and severity of gastrointestinal complications.
Marc Safran, MD, who heads the Sports Medicine Center, spoke with KPIX-TV/CBS 5 about cyclist Floyd Landis's comments to Sports Illustrated in the wake of an abnormal testosterone to epitestosterone level.
UCSF cancer patients will get financial support thanks to third-graders who raised money as way to comfort their teacher.
The UCSF School of Nursing has received a gift in honor of the late Lillian Aldous, who obtained a master of science in nursing degree from UCSF.
UCSF's Radiation Oncology department reports a few significant improvements, including recruiting a renowned breast radiation oncologist and unveiling a new website.
Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, will publish her first book, <em>The Female Brain</em>, on August 1.
On Sunday, July 16, the 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco was held at Golden Gate Park. The event drew more than 25,000 people to fight a disease that was first acknowledged 25 years ago and has killed more than 25 million people worldwide.
Sunday, Aug. 13, UCSF Children's Hospital will cosponsor the 5-mile Run/Walk, which will travel up 3rd Street from Monster Park (Candlestick) to AT&T Park.
Several studies have shown that antibody-targeting of drug-laden nanoparticles to cancer cell receptors can significantly enhance antitumor efficacy of the drug cargo.
The last few years have produced an impressive store of insights and discoveries in neuroscience, but Parkinson's disease remains particularly resistant to treatment.
An Avon Foundation grant to San Francisco General Hospital will enable its breast cancer center to provide genetic screening to uninsured women – the first program of its kind in the country.
When hearing the term "executive function," we might conjure up an image of a CEO behind a big desk, doing her daily routine.
The University of California will begin a comprehensive study to examine the impact of the 1996 voter-approved Proposition 209 on the diversity of the student body.
Lily Y. Jan, PhD, and Yuh Nung Jan, PhD, both UCSF professors of physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, were asked to present Presidential Award Lectures at the international symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, held this past week in San Francisco.
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.
Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.
KQED (88.5) radio's live call-in program <i>Forum</i> with Michael Krasny is scheduled to take up the issue of the Senate human embryonic stem cell bill, vetoed by President Bush, at 9:00 am Thursday, July 20 (pending last-minute changes).
Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, spoke to the national and local press about a bill approved by the Senate Tuesday that would have expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
UCSF is making some changes to the newly revised shuttle service beginning on Monday, July 24.
The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.
The UCSF-led Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) held an investigators' meeting in Washington, DC, recently.