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New UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Hits Critical Milestone
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UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Celebrates "Topping Out" Construction Milestone
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay celebrated a major milestone today with the placement of a 1,600-pound beam – painted white and decorated with colorful autographs of construction workers, donors and supporters, along with art created by hospitalized children and adults – atop the new hospital complex, signifying the end of the structural steel phase of San Francisco’s first new hospital in decades.
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Malaria Elimination Maps Highlight Progress and Prospects
A new global Atlas charts prospects for malaria elimination by offering the first full-color, detailed depiction of a disease now declining in many parts of the globe and provides a visual tool to help focus resources where they are needed most.
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Mammograms Have High Rate of False Positives
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New Clue to Brain Bleeding After Stroke Treatment
The only medication currently approved for stroke treatment – tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which dissolves blood clots – is associated with an increased risk of bleeding in the brain, particularly among patients with hyperglycemia (high blood sugar).
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UCSF Begins Long-Range Planning About its Future Through to 2030
<p>For most people, the year 2030 is too remote to contemplate. But it is very much on the minds of those involved in shaping the future of UCSF.</p>
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UCSF's Community Internship Orientation Program
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Vicki Kennedy Offers Caregiving Perspective on Brain Cancer with UCSF Department of Neurosurgery Panel Tomorrow
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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer May Succumb to New Treatments
<p>Triple-negative breast cancer is the most deadly form of the disease. This form of breast cancer has a disproportionate impact on women who are younger, African American or Hispanic, but new discoveries, including a new treatment approach targeting inflammation in cancer, may help women survive the disease.</p>
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MEDIA ADVISORY: From Public Assistance to a Career at UCSF
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Press Kit: Construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
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UC Accepts Applications for UC Health Fellowship
<p>The University of California <u><a href="http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu/innovation-center/" title="UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation">Center for Health Quality and Innovation</a></u> is accepting applications for the UC Health Fellowship.</p>
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State Caved to Industry Pressure to Use Pesticides
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San Francisco Giants Fan Bryan Stow Leaves SFGH for Rehab
<p>Bryan Stow is now recovering after being treated for a severe brain injury at the UCSF-affiliated San Francsico General Hospital and Trauma Center, which recently became the first hospital in the country to be certified for a Traumatic Brain Injury Program by the Joint Commission.</p>
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John Baxter Remembered as Pioneer of Biotechnology and Translational Medicine
<p>John Baxter, a UCSF faculty member for more than 35 years, is being remembered as a pioneer of biotechnology and a leader in taking discoveries from the halls of academia to form companies aimed at developing medical therapies. He died in San Francisco on Oct. 5 following surgery for cancer.</p>
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Ceremony to Honor Workers, Mark Construction Milestone at Mission Bay Medical Center
<p>UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will celebrate a major milestone on October 17, with the placement of a 1,600-pound beam atop the sprawling hospital complex to signify the end of the structural steel phase.</p>
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Sperm Discoveries Shed Light on Infertility and Birth Control
<p>Sperm penetrates egg to complete fertilization is a happy ending hard to reach for many couples, but recent research findings — including the discovery of how progesterone attracts sperm to the egg — are engendering new ideas about birth control and infertility.</p>
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New York Times Profiles UCSF Chancellor: An Innovator Shapes an Empire
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Oct. 11, 2011 edition of the <em>New York Times</em>, which is reprinted here according to a license agreement with the University.</p>
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UCSF Offers Free Flu Shots to Faculty, Staff and Students
<p>UCSF continues to offer free flu shots to faculty, staff, students and volunteers through October 21.</p>
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UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay to Meet Demands of Information Age
<p>Chief Medical Information Officer Michael Blum sees the construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay as an opportunity to integrate new media and social media to improve the work flows of care providers and the experiences of patients and their families.</p>
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40 Million TB Deaths Due to Smoking Over Next 40 years
Smoking could cause 18 million more cases of tuberculosis worldwide over the next 40 years and 40 million additional deaths.
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Profiled in The New York Times
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 edition of The New York Times, in an article titled, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11profile.html?_r=3">An Innovator Shapes an Empire</a>.” Noting that UCSF is “widely regarded among scientists as one of the nation’s crown jewels of biomedical research, and a birthplace of biotechnology and innovation,” reporter Denise Grady highlights Desmond-Hellmann’s goal of making UCSF “the world’s pre-eminent health sciences innovator.”</p>
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UCSF Expert At Odds With New Prostate Screening Recommendations
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Prostate cancer test advice creates confusion
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Dr. Q, Former UCSF Medical Resident, Returns to Campus on October 10
<p>Former UCSF medical resident and stem cell researcher Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, will return to the University to speak about his time at UCSF on October 10 as part of the University's celebration of diversity.</p>
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Experts Discuss Personalized Medicine and Gene Discoveries in Disease at Genetics Symposium
<p>Personalized medicine and new gene discoveries in human disease were a focus of a daylong symposium hosted by the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics on the Mission Bay campus on Oct. 3.</p>
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Chancellor Shares Vision for UCSF to Become World's Preeminent Health Sciences Innovator
<p>In her third year as Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of <em>advancing health worldwide</em>.</p>
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UCSF Technology Center Wins $5.5M NIH Grant for New MRI Research
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Insurers Review Whether to Still Pay for Routine Screening