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Even Yeast Mothers Sacrifice All for Their Babies
A mother’s willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures — and by no means unique to humans alone. Now an unexpected discovery at UCSF shows that even yeast “mothers” do it, giving all to their offspring — even at the cost of their own lives.
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The Need for Connection in the Age of Anxiety
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Novartis Heart Failure Drug Cuts Death by 37 Percent: Study
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'Hero of the Hudson' Applies Lessons from Aviation to Improve Patient Safety
<p>Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who successfully landed a jetliner in New York's Hudson River in 2009, shared lessons from the aviation industry with UCSF leaders, physicians and health sciences students that he said could greatly improve patient safety.</p>
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Passage of Proposition 30 Puts Education on Path to Fiscal Stability
<p>The University of California will avoid $250 million in spending cuts this year, after voters Tuesday approved Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's signature tax measure.</p>
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Does Being Black and Poor Increase Our Risk of Kidney Disease?
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Pregnancy Hormone Shows Promise as Heart Failure Drug
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Genital Injuries Send 16k People to ERs Each Year
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Diabetes Care Tailored to Asian Subgroups
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Healthcare Industry Leaders React to Obama's Re-election
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Science May Benefit from Election Despite Fiscal Cliff
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Why Ebay Billionaire Jeff Skoll Is Backing The FluNearYou Initiative
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TEDx San Francisco and UCSF Present '7 Billion Well: Re-imaging Global Health' on Saturday
<p><span class="field-content"><a href="http://tedxsf.org/">TEDx San Francisco</a> and UCSF Global Health Sciences are uniting forces for the first time ever to showcase "7 Billion Well," a global health-focused TEDx event on November 10.</span></p>
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Heart Devices Often Approved Without Comparisons
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"Smoke-Free" Laws Lead to Fewer Hospitalizations and Deaths
Laws that end smoking at work and other public places result in significantly fewer hospitalizations for heart attacks, strokes, asthma and other respiratory conditions, a new UCSF analysis has found.
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One in Five Smokers Lights Up While Hospitalized
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Heart Failure Drug Shows Promise in Phase III Clinical Trial
<p>Hospitalized heart failure patients who received the drug, serelaxin, in a phase III clinical trial had fewer disease symptoms and as a group experienced 37 percent fewer deaths over six months, according to results of a new study.</p>
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TEDx San Francisco and UCSF Present '7 Billion Well: Re-Imagining Global Health' on Saturday
<p><span class="field-content"><a href="http://tedxsf.org/">TEDx San Francisco</a> and UCSF Global Health Sciences are uniting forces for the first time ever to showcase "7 Billion Well," a global health-focused TEDx event on November 10.</span></p>
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Asthma Researcher Makes Rare Leap from Graduate School to UCSF Principal Investigator and Professor
<p>Most young scientists fresh out of graduate school are content to begin a post-doctoral fellowship, working for an established faculty member. But for Christopher Allen, PhD, award-winning research in asthma meant the fast-track onto UCSF’s faculty.</p>
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When Hospital Patients Continue to Smoke
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Concert for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
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UCSF Partners Schizophrenia Treatments
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Arizona's Bad Science
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Prostate Patients Suffer as Money Overwhelms Best Therapy
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UCSF School of Medicine Receives AAMC Outstanding Community Service Award
<p>The UCSF School of Medicine received the Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges on Nov. 3.</p>
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Soda Tax Would Boost Health of Latinos, Blacks, Study Says
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RPT-California GMO Measure May Fail After Food Industry Fights Back
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Genetically Modified Food Labeling Through the Lens of Public Health
As Californians prepare to vote on Proposition 37, which would require labeling of food that’s been genetically modified, debate continues on the health implications of eating such foods.
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Local Calls Only for Anaesthetised Brain