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Is Sugar Toxic?
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Puberty Before Age 10: A New 'Normal'?
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Meditation Improves Emotional Behaviour
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UC Regents Discuss Tentative Multi-Year Funding Plan
<p>The University of California Board of Regents heard a report today (March 29) on UC's efforts to secure a framework for a multi-year funding plan with the state, including administrators' efforts to avoid a tuition increase in the coming year.</p>
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LGBT Forum Attracts 200 Interprofessional Health Students
<p>The UCSF Center for LGBT Health & Equity convened a health forum for the fourth consecutive year, attracting 200 interprofessional health students for two days of education about the long-overlooked health concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex people.</p>
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Greater Traumatic Stress Linked with Elevated Inflammation in Heart Patients
Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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UCSF Issues Statement After Police Arrest Three at UC Regents Meeting
<p>Three UCLA students were arrested on March 29 after a scuffled ensued outside the UC Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay.</p>
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Gladstone Scientists Identify Key Mechanism Involved in Type 2 Diabetes
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered a key protein that regulates insulin resistance — a breakthrough that points to a potentially new way to treat or forestall type 2 diabetes, a rapidly growing global health problem.
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Meditation Improves Emotional Behaviors in Teachers, Study Finds
Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed – and more compassionate and aware of others’ feelings, according to a new study led by UCSF.
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New Layer of Genetic Information Discovered
A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at UCSF, thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside living cells.
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Chancellor Presents 2012 Award for Advancement of Women to Three
<p>UCSF Chancellor <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?From=SE&Person=4769489">Susan Desmond-Hellmann</a> awarded three members of the campus community for their efforts to advance women at UCSF and beyond at ceremony on March 28.</p>
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Study: Trauma Fuels HIV Epidemic in Women
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Intel Fellow to Talk About Health Innovation
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear Eric Dishman, director of Health Innovation and Policy for Intel’s Digital Health Group, talk about Intel's approach to health care at UCSF on April 5. </p>
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Man's Best Friend Should Not Be a Pill
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Opinion: Anti-Smoking Effort for Substance Abusers is 'Anemic'
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Expert to Talk About Neurological Basis of Pain and Its Control
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear Allan Basbaum's lecture, “The Neurological Basis of Pain and Its Control,” on April 17 as part of the Second Annual Faculty Research Lecture in Translational Science.</p>
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Can Multitasking Be Improved?
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Integrative Medicine Classes Help Breast Cancer Survivors Recover
<p>Long considered a New Age way of meditating and exercising, yoga, qigong and tai chi have increasingly become popular among cancer patients who regain strength and balance after chemotherapy and surgery.</p>
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Young Cancer Survivors Rarely Take Steps To Prevent Infertility
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Few Young Women With Cancer Freeze Eggs to Preserve Fertility
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Few Young Women With Cancer Take Steps to Preserve Fertility
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Family Medicine Residency Anniversary Addresses Changing Climate of Health Care
<p>If the U.S Supreme Court allows for the ongoing expansion and adoption of national health care reform, it will mean a greater role for family medicine practitioners as the previously uninsured seek primary care physicians to gain access to the health care system.</p>
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Studies See Link Between HIV and Abuse Among Women
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Family Medicine Residency at SFGH: Past, Present and Future
<p>The UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) celebrates its 40th anniversary. It has trained more than 400 family doctors who have cared for tens of thousands of underserved patients and advocated for millions more.</p>
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Confronting HIV in Oakland
<p>To effectively confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Oakland, the medical community needs to connect with African-American young men, who are a particularly vulnerable group of individuals who may not know they are at high risk and may not be receiving the information they need to protect themselves.</p>
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Volunteer Teen Chefs Cater to Cancer Patients
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San Francisco Health Care Experiment Being Watched Nationwide
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Video Depicts Women With HIV
<p>A recent theatrical performance in San Francisco titled, "Dancing with the Clown of Love," explores the subjects of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, prisons, trauma and how they affect the lives of women.</p>
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Nurses Take Lead In Another San Francisco Reform