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UCSF Summer Interns Gain Glimpse of a Scientific Future
<p>Twenty high school students from San Francisco's public schools completed a summer internship program at UCSF that is designed to stimulate their interest in science and to bolster their confidence to continue on to college.</p>
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Vampire Bats Could Hold Key to Nervous System
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San Francisco Slashes HIV Prevention Budget for Asian Americans
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New Scorecard Identifies Patients at Highest Risk on Blood Thinners
A new and simple risk score may aid physicians in gauging the likelihood that a common drug will cause a hemorrhagic stroke or other major bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation, potentially allowing wider but safer use of the effective drug.
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Vampire Bats Have Vein Sensors
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How Vampire Bats Tuned Their Thermometers to Evolve A Heat-Seeking Face
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Medicare to Penalize Hospitals that Readmit Patients Too Soon
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How Blood-Sucking Vampire Bats Aim Their Bites
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Vampire Bats Can Sense the Heat of Blood Flowing in the Veins of Their Prey
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What Steers Vampires to Blood
Scientists have known for years that when vampire bats tear through an animal’s skin with their razor-sharp teeth, their noses guide them to the best spots – where a precise bite will strike a vein and spill forth nourishing blood. But nobody knew exactly how bats knew where to bite – until now.
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To PSA or Not to PSA, That is the Question!
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Larger Dose of Zinc Lozenges May Shorten Colds
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UCSF Releases Mobile App to Make Information Available on the Go
<p>UCSF is offering a new mobile app to keep news and information about the University handy for people on the go.</p>
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I Know It's a Girl, and I Need Your Help To Get It Out of Me.
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Heather Nelson Brame Writes Test for Other Social Workers
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UCSF's Cooke Wins Prize for Article on Cost Consciousness in Medical Education
<p>UCSF's Molly Cooke has won an inaugural award recognizing the best articles in medical professionalism for her paper titled "Cost Consciousness in Patient Care - What is Medical Education's Responsibility," which was published in the <em>New England Journal of Medicine.</em></p>
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Stryker Kill Team, And Free Birth Control
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ERs Move to Speed Care; Not Everyone Needs a Bed
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A Worker With No ID and Great Medical Need
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New UCSF Cancer Care Affiliation with Community Hospital In Monterey
A new collaboration has begun between the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula that will enhance patient care and access to clinical trials.
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Removers for Waterproof Eye Makeup
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Surveys Find Widespread Violence against Nurses and Other Hospital Caregivers
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O'Neil Working to Fix Broken Health Care Model
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Judge Orders San Francisco Circumcision Ban Off Ballot
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Designing a Better Food Label
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UCSF Neuro-oncologists Engage Caregivers to Better Help Patients
<p>Seeking to improve care for people with brain tumors, neuro-oncologists at UCSF Medical Center are beginning to look beyond the patient to engage a patient’s family, friends and other caregivers.</p>
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UCSF Prof Scores Big with Free Athlete Care
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Healing the Brain, Healing the Mind
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5 Years Later, Scientists Still Puzzled by Honeybee Decline