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A $46 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new treatments for severe diarrhea will focus much of its initial support on potential, new drugs discovered at UCSF. Diarrhea is a leading killer of children under the age of 5 worldwide and kills about 5 million people a year.
Fun was the prescription at UCSF Children's Hospital on Tuesday as children went door-to-door – or nursing station-to-nursing station – trick-or-treating for Halloween.
Professor Emeritus Felix Kolb wrote a book about surviving a health care crisis from his own perspective as a patient and longtime practitioner.
<i>Forum </i>discusses breast cancer in younger women; looks at prevention, diagnosis, and research; and examines some of the less-traditional approaches for treatment.
Studies show that Asian populations have a lower incidence of chronic diseases, such as cancer, than their Western counterparts. One such study, by the National Cancer Institute, found that whites had a 65 percent higher rate of cancer mortality than Asian-Pacific Islanders from the years 1998 to 2002.
Longtime nurse Inez Weiging had only a few parting words upon her retirement: "Please take care my babies. Take care of them and love them."
Everyone at UCSF with an identification badge is encouraged to get a free flu shot available at multiple campus locations beginning today.
UCSF Police ask anyone who sees a convicted thief and known trespasser on UCSF property to immediately call them.
UCSF Today highlights a few of the people and programs that make this University a place of hope and promise.
Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.
Ken Dill believes biology needs a shot in the arm, a theoretical boost of the first magnitude. And to make that leap scientists need to get off the treadmill, step out of the stream, dream a little again.
Gender equity, sexual harassment, conflict resolution and ethics. These are a few of the challenging issues that UCSF has tackled over the years as it tries to make the University a better place for faculty, staff and students.
With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.
UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.
Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.
Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.
Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.
Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.
Louann Brizendine, MD, is director and founder of the Women and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, at UCSF, the first clinic in the country devoted to the study of women, and their mental, sexual and physical health. Brizendine is one of the country's foremost neuropsychiatric experts, best know for her ground-breaking work in the field of female neurology, and now, for her much-lauded book, <i>The Female Brain</i>.
Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.
New research from the National Institute on Aging found that eating vegetables could help keep our brains younger. Howard Rosen, MD, professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, talks about the study with KPIX Health and Science correspondent Dr. Kim Mulvihill.
Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.
For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.
A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.
Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during the night due to upper airway obstruction. This condition is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight and over the age of 40, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.
Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.
The Institute of Medicine has released a report about which fish are the most healthy for kids. Cheryl Davis, RD, CNSD, a pediatric nutritionist at the University of California, San Francisco, was interviewed on what types of meat also are good to feed children.
Parents and their children were reunited with those who saved their lives at UCSF Children's Hospital on Saturday.
UCSF Medical Center was one of eight California acute care hospitals among the top 50 U.S. hospitals named by the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers that works to leverage employer purchasing power to promote high quality health care.