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Pediatric Neurologist Named Physician-in-Chief of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
<p>Donna Ferriero, who is internationally recognized as an expert in the care of newborns and children with neurological disabilities, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics and physician-in-chief of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.</p>
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Cottonwood Boy Celebrates Life as He Waits for Bone-Marrow Transplant
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The Worst Side Effect You've Never Heard Of
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Adolescent Psychiatrist Discusses Inspiration Behind New Novel
<p>UCSF's Lynn Ponton, an expert in teen risk-taking and sexuality, has written a new novel, “Metis: Mixed Blood Stories,” which tells the coming-of-age stories of four generations of adolescents as they face different challenges during their 16th year.</p>
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Dead Dolphins on Alabama Coastline
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Three UCSF Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
<p>Three UCSF professors, in medicine, immunology and molecular pharmacology, are among 212 international leaders who have been elected as new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).</p>
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Aetna's $1M Backs Four Care R&D Studies
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Making Sci-Fi a Reality
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Study Highlights Male Bias in Animal Studies
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Protein That Stifles Inflammation May Protect the Brain, UCSF Study Suggests
<p>Feeding brain cells drugs that force them to produce a protein called “HSP70” can protect those cells from injury and death – at least in the test tube, according to University of California researchers.</p>
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New Guidelines Suggest 3 Stages of Alzheimer's
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UCSF Searches for Extreme Dieters
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AIA New York Honors 38 Winners of Design Awards
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A Scientific Career Crossing Boundaries: From the Microscopic to the International
<p>Nobel laureate Peter Agre used his own career as an example to point to the international collaborations through which people from across the globe come together with a shared passion to work on scientific mysteries during his recent talk at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.</p>
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Gulf Oil Spill: Fishermen Say They Are Sick from Cleanup
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AIDS Prevention Pill Study Halted; No Benefit Seen
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Health Expert Says Financial Crisis Could Force Changes
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UCSF Study Explores Stroke in Children
<p>A new retrospective study by interventional neuroradiologist, James Tatum, MD, and colleagues at UCSF look at the effectiveness of treating children having stokes with a technique known as "mechanical embolectomy," a standard treatment for stroke in adults.</p>
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Having Two Neurological Diseases at Once Creates Diagnostic Confusion, UCSF Study Suggests
<p>Preliminary data suggest that when a person has a combination of Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, that produces a clinical syndrome that is difficult to diagnose, according to a UCSF study.</p>
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AIDS-Prevention Trial Is Halted
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Found! The Seat of Embarrassment in Your Brain
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UCSF Study Shows 3D Images of Fetal Development
<p>UCSF has received funding by the National Institutes of Health to study fetal brain development in specific conditions and to correlate fetal MRI findings with neurodevelopmental outcomes.</p>
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Extreme Dieting: Does It Lead to Longer Lives?
A seminal UCSF study is probing the biological processes affected by extremely low caloric intake in the first broad examination of the psychological profile of successful extreme dieters gauging how they differ from normal eaters and overeaters. WATCH VIDEO.
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Sarcastic or Serious? Missing Subtle Cues May Signal Dementia
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All Those Tweets, Apps, Updates May Drain Brain
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Eight Is Too Much For 'Short Sleepers'
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$160M Records System Switching on at UCSF
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UCSF Researchers Develop Simple Tools to Detect Neurological HIV Complications in Kenya
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF has developed a simple screening tool – a question – to identify people with HIV who have neurological complications related to their infections. </p>
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UCSF Team Describes Neurological Basis for Embarrassment
Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley, this exact Karaoke experiment has revealed what part of the brain is essential for embarrassment.