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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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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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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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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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Study: Trauma Fuels HIV Epidemic in Women
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Man's Best Friend Should Not Be a Pill
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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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Opinion: Anti-Smoking Effort for Substance Abusers is 'Anemic'
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Young Cancer Survivors Rarely Take Steps To Prevent Infertility
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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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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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Can Multitasking Be Improved?
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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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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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San Francisco Health Care Experiment Being Watched Nationwide
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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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Trauma Drives HIV Epidemic in Women
Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women, who account for at least 27 percent of new U.S. cases.
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Nurses Take Lead In Another San Francisco Reform
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Studies See Link Between HIV and Abuse Among Women
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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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Volunteer Teen Chefs Cater to Cancer Patients
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Medical Students Mark 2013 'Match Day' at UCSF
<p>UCSF medical students participated with their peers around the country in the annual rite of passage known as Match Day, when they found out which residency program they have been assigned and where they will work.</p>
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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami One Year Later -- Lingering Impacts and Lessons
<p>A year later, the Japanese public continues to be concerned about radiation contamination, cleanup, public health and the struggles of those in communities affected by the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meltdowns.</p>
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Media Advisory: UCSF Health Reform Experts Available for Media Comment
Friday, March 23, marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, which set in motion a series of reforms that will roll out over the course of four years and grant 32 million more Americans insurance coverage. Next week the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear three days of arguments related to the legal challenges to the health care reform law.
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High Healthcare Spenders Don't Deliver More Unnecessary Care
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Radiation Risks from Fukushima Are Likely to Be Less than for Chernobyl
<p>Radiation exposures to the people in Japan from meltdowns at three Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant reactors in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake and 45-foot tsunami have been less than what people were exposed to in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster a quarter century ago, according to two experts who spoke at UCSF.</p>