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<p>The people of Cusco, Peru, see UCSF's Rosa Ten, MD, as a compassionate healer with a heart as big as Mother Teresa’s. They call her <em>Santa Rosa,</em> which means “Saint Rose” in Spanish.</p>
<p>For the fifth year in a row, a team from Lincoln High School, one of just two made up of high school students, came home with a gold medal in an international science competition after spending 10 weeks in the UCSF lab of Wendell Lim, PhD.</p>
<p>Employees should take note that the annual Open Enrollment period ends November 22 at 5 p.m.</p>
<p>The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is planned as a shining example of evidence-based hospital design, an increasingly prevalent trend built on research suggesting that design can improve health outcomes by increasing safety and reducing stress among patients, their families and hospital staff.</p>
<p>Chancellor <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?From=SE&Person=4769489">Susan Desmond-Hellmann</a>, MD, MPH, unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of <em>advancing health worldwide</em>.</p>
<p>UCSF’s new robotic pharmacy has won a 2011 Best of What’s New award for innovation from <em>Popular Science</em>.</p>
<p>Our mature brains may not be so old and inflexible after all. Scientists are discovering that the human brain can improve its performance to counter the consequences of cognitive impairment and even the trauma of stroke-induced brain damage.</p>
Examining venom from a variety of poisonous snakes, a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has discovered why the bite of one small black, yellow and red serpent called the Texas coral snake can be so painful.