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Hundreds Gather to Celebrate Millberry Union's 50th Anniversary
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CALENDAR ITEM: Healthy kids, happy lives
The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, on the integrative medicine approach to eating disorders.
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Green Selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Physician-Scientist
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Standard tests may miss cognitive decline in older adults
People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people whose mental abilities have declined, but don’t have MCI, appear to have similar changes in brain structure and function, according to a study at SF VA Medical Center.
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Program Offers New Chance at Life After Lockup
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SFGH Seeks Voter Support to Rebuild Hospital
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San Francisco VA brain imaging team receives $6 million NIH award
A national research group headed by Michael Weiner, MD, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been granted a $6.04 million Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Award from the National Institutes of Health.
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OAAIS Launches UCSF Campus Wireless Network Project
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Stress tests to confirm need for cardiac stent not occurring in most patients, new study finds
UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries -- such as angioplasty and stenting -- found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.
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Swim Across America to raise funds for UCSF Child Cancer Care
Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.
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Campus Community Commemorates 'Spirit of Diversity' Mural
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UCSF Research into Tiny Organisms Has Big Implications
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Four UCSF scientists named to Institute of Medicine
Four faculty scientists in the UCSF School of Medicine are among the 65 newly elected members and five foreign associates to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today, Oct. 13.
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UCSF Resumes Diversity-Minded Outreach Program
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Epilepsy - in Search of Genomes with Frustrating Phenomes: A Conversation with Dan Lowenstein
In what he calls the biggest epilepsy research project in history, UCSF neurologist Dan Lowenstein, along with colleagues at 13 major epilepsy centers, is searching for genes associated with the disease...
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First-Generation College Students Get Extra Support at UCSF
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UCSF Police Report Robbery Near Mount Zion Campus
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Nerve stimulation therapy alleviates pain for chronic headache
A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from UCSF and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.
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Talk Explores Role of Race and Gender in Presidential Politics
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UCSF Names Featherstone as New Dean of School of Dentistry
The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D.B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.
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UCSF Children's Hospital Kicks Off Tree Lighting Fundraiser
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Post-term pregnancies risk infant's life and health, UCSF studies show
Infants born more than one week past their due dates have a higher risk of both impaired health and death, according to two new studies by authors from the University of California’s San Francisco and Berkeley campuses.
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Childhood Leukemia Clusters: A Conversation with Joseph Wiemels
Far from the media eye, UCSF epidemiologist Joseph Wiemels, PhD, makes trips to Fallon, Nevada, a rural town of 8,000 about 60 miles east of Reno on a lonesome stretch of Highway 50, to investigate what he calls the most unusual concentration of residential childhood leukemia cases ever reported.
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UCSF to Host Diversity Mural Celebration
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NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Program NIH Roadmap Epigenome Mapping Center
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UCSF to host kick-off event for Macy's tree lighting with Barry Bonds
Kick-off event for the 19th annual Macy’s Christmas Tree Lighting benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. The celebration will feature a visit from Honorary Chair Barry Bonds, as well as face painting, refreshments, and elves to entertain young patients. Great photo, audio and video opportunities.
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Major NIH Award Supports Epigenomics Research
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Dillon Wins Gold Medal from American Society of Head and Neck Radiology
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UCSF to Celebrate Diversity During Events in October