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Using standards that measure a university's openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research, <i>Newsweek International </i>has ranked UCSF ninth among the top 100 global universities.
On Tuesday, August 22, KQED-FM's <i>Forum with Michael Krasny </i>discussed the nature and structure of the female brain and assessed the latest findings on how the structure of the female brain may determine how women think, what they value, and how they communicate, with Louann Brizendine, MD, author of <i>The Female Brain</i>.
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion recently unveiled a mural, one of eight designed to convey a sense of comfort and peace.
On Monday, August 21, KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny explored the discussions and issues featured at last week's International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
The collaborative work of HHMI Investigators Joseph DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, and the story of how the collaboration came about are profiled in the August issue of the <i>Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin</i>.
By 2012, every region in California will face a shortage of registered nurses, according to a new report.
Breast cancer incidence in the United States ranks near the top internationally. And just across the Golden Gate from UCSF – in Marin County – studies show that the rate at which new breast cancers arise is among the highest in the United States.
The current issue of <i>Science</i> (August 18, 2006; vol. 313, no. 5789) features a "News Focus" on fetal surgery. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first fetal surgery, performed in 1981 at the University of California, San Francisco by pediatric surgeon Michael R. Harrison, MD, and his colleagues.
On Friday, August 18, 2006, PBS's <i>NewsHour with Jim Lehrer</i> aired a segment about the recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler that five major tobacco companies violated racketeering laws and conspired to cover up the risks of smoking. Analysts David Kessler, MD, and Mary Aronson discuss the verdict with <i>NewsHour </i>correspondent Jeffrey Brown.
Olympic swimming legends and accomplished swimmers from across the country will participate in a 10-mile-long relay swim around San Francisco Bay on September 23 in the first "Swim Across America San Francisco Swim to Fight Cancer."
Two members of the faculty have been named recipients of the Royer Award for outstanding contributions to psychiatry.
A UCSF medical student has been awarded a Fulbright US Student scholarship to South Africa in Public Health.
UCSF researcher Steven G. Deeks, MD, who has been studying a population of 60 elite controllers at San Francisco General Hospital, will work with Bruce Walker, MD, from Massachusetts General Hospital on an international study of elite controllers.
UCSF AIDS researcher and co-discoverer of HIV, Jay Levy, MD, pioneered a study of long-term AIDS survivors, or "elite controllers," people who are infected with HIV but never get sick.
<i>Nature</i> takes a first look at research suggesting that certain genetic mutations that increase life span in the roundworm <i>C. elegans</i> also reduce the growth of tumors in the worm.
Children and adults of all ages and running levels are invited to join the annual "Banana Chase" run at Kezar Stadium in Golden Gate Park on Sunday, September 17. The event supports pediatric AIDS research and treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital.
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH, speaks at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Kahn is professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the AIDS Research Institute, and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, all at UCSF.
At the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto this week, UCSF researchers were among the attendees and presenters – which also included former President Bill Clinton – at sessions focusing on prevention and technology.
Assemblyman Mark Leno was on hand last Friday to congratulate 21 minority and economically disadvantaged students who graduated from a health sciences summer internship program.
UCSF Police are asking for more information about a suspect arrested Aug. 11 for alleged sexual battery of two women in UC Hall on the Parnassus campus.
NBC News reports on a San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and University of California, San Francisco study in this week's issue of the <i>Annals of Internal Medicine</i> about the subtle ways pharmaceutical companies market their products to physicians and patients.
On Tuesday, August 15, <i>KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny </i>assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain.
UCSF Children's Hospital helped raise thousands of dollars to benefit children in San Francisco's southeast sector on Sunday.
UCSF congratulates Janice Marchi-Varlow, a Cardiovascular Thoracic nurse, who was recognized recently at the winner of the August DAISY award.
The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center is offering a free, eight-week vegan cooking class to the general public.
Christopher Ames, MD, assistant professor in residence in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, has developed a technique to remove large tumors, buried deep within the spine, that are often considered inoperable.
A review of internal documents from the pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis reveals a comprehensive and often ethically questionable campaign to market the seizure drug gabapentin to physicians, according to a paper by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
Cancer researchers are discovering that at least some tumors arise from cancer stem cells that share characteristics with other kinds of stem cells.
UCSF students and postdocs will have a short commute when they move into apartments opening soon at 145 Irving St.