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Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Symposium on Tobacco Treatment
To celebrate the launch of UCSF’s Fontana Tobacco Treatment Center, UCSF is holding an educational symposium featuring new research on tobacco cessation treatment and tobacco research. Lunch will be provided.
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Malaria Resurgence Directly Linked To Funding Cuts
Funding cuts for malaria control are the single most common reason for the resurgence of the deadly disease, according to a new study that has linked overall weakened malaria control programs to the majority of global resurgences since 1930.
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Fat, Drumsticks, and Froot Loops
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Medical Bills: Sticker Shock and Confused Consumers
According to a provocative new UCSF analysis, patients are all too often left in the dark about how and what hospitals charge for their medical care – even in the face of a mounting push nationally for consumers to have a voice in how their health care dollars are spent.
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UCSF Launches $100M Fundraising Campaign To Offset Cuts
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How Much Does an Appendectomy Cost? Somewhere Between $1,529 and $186,955
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What Cocktail Parties Teach Us
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Media Advisory: UCSF Hosts Symposium On World Malaria Day
To celebrate World Malaria Day 2012, on Wednesday, April 25, the UCSF Global Health Group and local non-profit Zagaya are hosting the Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium.
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City Project Continues to Repave Parnassus Avenue
<p>The City of San Francisco's project to repave and make other upgrades on Parnassus Avenue has had a few delays due to rain, but the project is progressing and starting to move on to the main UCSF Parnassus campus.</p>
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Artificial Kidney Made With Real Cells
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Study: Appendix Surgery Costs Differ Around U.S.
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Media Advisory: UCSF Announces $100 Million Education Fundraising Initiative to Offset State Cuts
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will introduce a four-year, $100 million education fundraising initiative during a commencement address on April 24. This campuswide goal includes $80 million in new scholarships and fellowships, and $20 million in support of curriculum innovation, interprofessional education, and teaching facilities.
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UCSF to Launch $100M Fund-Raising Campaign to Offset State Funding Cuts
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What Caused Frida Kahlo's Infertility?
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After Foreclosures, Hidden Addictions Emerge Among Elders
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In Focus: 2012 Commencement Season
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#14 Robert Wachter - 50 Most Influential Physician Executives - 2012
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Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Underutilized
Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely adopted — in fact, it is dramatically underutilized according to a new UCSF study.
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The Time to Act against Alzheimer's is Now
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Hospital Computer Kiosks Effective, But Value Questioned
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Peripheral Artery Disease, Depression Link
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Artificial Kidney Put on Research Fast-Track
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Kids from Benioff Children's Hospital Enjoy Prom
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Depression Linked to Higher Odds for Poor Leg Circulation
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Environmental Health Expert Named Deputy Secretary at State Environmental Protection Agency
<p>Keeping her eyes on the strawberry fields of central California, the bustling diesel truck routes in Oakland, and the stubborn toxic soils of the former Naval ship yards at San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point, UCSF Associate Professor Gina Solomon, MD, MPH will soon have a new vantage point — the state capitol.</p>
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J&J Funds Promising QB3 Research
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Receives California Distinguished Citizen Award
<p>In an event that celebrated the energy, creativity and innovation of the Bay Area, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and three other Bay Area leaders were honored on April 18, each receiving the Commonwealth Club of California’s 2012 Distinguished Citizen Award.</p>
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An Artificial Kidney To Take Patients Off The Transplant Waiting List
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Study Shows How Brain Tunes Out Background Noise, Hears One Voice