University of California San Francisco
The nation’s largest for-profit nursing homes deliver significantly lower quality of care because they typically have fewer staff nurses than non-profit and government-owned nursing homes, according to a UCSF-led analysis.
In 1993, UCSF’ s Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, and colleagues discovered a gene that, when mutated, doubles the lifespan of the miniscule roundworm C. elegans. Today, her lab is investigating drugs in human cells that could extend the healthy, vigorous lifespan of people.
<p>University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced today (Nov. 28) the appointment of former California Supreme Court Justice <a href="http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Reynoso/">Cruz Reynoso</a> to chair the task force formed to address the pepper spraying of UC Davis students.</p>
The immune system possesses a type of cell that can be activated by tissues within the body to remind the immune system not to attack our own molecules, cells and organs, UCSF researchers have discovered.
<p>The newest art installation at UCSF's Parnassus campus honors its longest-lived and most venerable inhabitants. </p>
<p>UCSF leaders are expressing support for the right of individuals to demonstrate peacefully, while recommitting to the University’s responsibility to enhance the safety of students, faculty, staff, patients and visitors – and UCSF property.</p>
<p>Due to changes in details of the telephonic UC Regents' meeting scheduled for four campuses beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 28, the UCSF Police Department is preparing for anticipated public demonstrations at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.</p>
<p>UCSF’s faculty and students are taking a wide-ranging look at the inequities that exist in the Unites States, in terms of both health itself and the quality of health care, across racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines.</p>
<p>National expert Harold Sox, an active professor emeritus at Dartmouth, will visit UCSF on November 28 to speak about "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Is it Fulfilling Its Promise?"</p>