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Almost One Third of Iraq/Afghanistan Women Veterans with PTSD Report Military Sexual Trauma, Researchers Find
Thirty-one percent of women veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reported military sexual trauma (MST), in contrast to one percent of men with PTSD, according to a study led by Shira Maguen, PhD, a psychologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Skipping Pluripotency
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Blood Pressure Risk Gene Search May Need New Approach
<p>High blood pressure affects 1 billion people worldwide. At least 30 percent of individual variation in blood pressure is due to genes. The largest-ever study to search for risk genes has just been published and homed in on 16 new genes. But most of the genetic contribution to blood pressure remains elusive. A new research approach may be needed.</p>
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Computing in the Age of the $1,000 Genome. Our Next Big Event in SF Oct. 24
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills
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Advances In Space Medicine Threatened By Funding Cuts
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UCSF to Host Faculty Development Day on September 21
<p>The sixth annual Faculty Development Day, scheduled for on Wednesday, Sept. 21, offers all UCSF faculty members an opportunity to network with colleagues, learn how to build and enhance their work life, and enjoy lunch together.</p>
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UCSF Faculty Put 9/11 in Context
<p>On the 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Sept. 11, faculty members reflect on the psychological toll the tragedy took. </p>
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Oakland Effect: Mass Trauma, Similar to that After 9/11, is Widespread in Cities Like Oakland
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Diabetes Public Health: UCSF Study Highlights Need for Better Guidelines
A survey of federally funded diabetes prevention and control programs in 57 U.S. states and territories has highlighted the need for better diabetes treatment guidelines that are specifically adapted to different populations. Such guidelines do not currently exist.
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Promising Signs Emerging from HIV Gene Therapy Trials
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Older Pills Often Safer But Many Think New is Better
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Neuroscience Vs Philosophy: Taking Aim at Free Will
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Enzyme Might Be Target for Treating Smoking, Alcoholism at Same Time
An enzyme that appears to play a role in controlling the brain's response to nicotine and alcohol in mice might be a promising target for a drug that simultaneously would treat nicotine addiction and alcohol abuse in people.
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UCSF Unveils Centralized Calendar Webpage
<p>Members of the UCSF community have easier access to several different campus calendars with today's launch of a centralized webpage for events and activities.</p>
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Public Often Unaware of a Drug's Safety Record -- Or Lack of One
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Laboratory Conditions
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Media Advisory: SF Hospital Experts Teach Limb-Saving Techniques to International Surgeons
The UCSF Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT) and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) are holding their second summit to teach international surgeons essential skills to help reduce the number of amputations performed throughout the world.
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UCSF School of Medicine Welcomes Class of 2015 With White Coat Ceremony
<p>Incoming medical school students don white coats in an annual ritual marking the start of their education at UCSF, inspiring their professors, others with their dedication, dreams and diverse backgrounds.</p>
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Chemo Impacts Female Fertility More Than Thought
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What are the Effects of Stress on Aging?
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Lawyers: Giants Fan's Medical Costs to Top $50M
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The New Yorker Features Architectural Design of UCSF Stem Cell Building
<p>In the September 19, 2011 issue of <em>The New Yorker</em>, architecture critic Paul Goldberger features UCSF’s Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine as one of three new science buildings in the United States “crafted with the specific intention of fostering interaction and connections, as a means of generating ideas.”</p>
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Virtual Colonoscopy Still Has Its Skeptics
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Bruzzese: Boomers Never Knew it Could Get This Scary
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Remembering 9/11: Ten Years After
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Fillers En Vogue for Hands, Temples, Earlobes
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Advances in Space Medicine Threatened by Funding Cuts, Says Scientist-Astronaut
Biomedical research in space has yielded a wealth of insights into the effects of weightlessness on the human body, but recent funding cuts undermine the ability of the United States to continue to contribute to the field of space medicine, writes Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, a biologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a former NASA astronaut.
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Moderate Drinkers Get Some Good News