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A UCSF-led team of researchers has found that larger HIV prevention programs in low and middle-income countries can increase efficiency and cause program unit costs to plummet. HIV prevention programs in Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Russia and India were examined.
The UCSF Memory and Aging Center is offering a new support group for people in the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease and their family members.
UCSF Medical Center is looking for people to join teams for the American Heart Association's fundraising walk on September 21.
Pasta Pomodoro is donating 10 percent of a food tab to AIDS Walk San Francisco when diners eat at the Irving Street restaurant on July 12.
UCSF Police report that a UCSF employee's car was carjacked by two men on Owens Street on July 4.
A drug already approved for nicotine addiction also curbs alcohol dependence, a new animal study shows. One dose alone cut drinking in half.
When it comes to getting fat, it's the brain that matters most...
With just over a week to go before AIDS Walk San Francisco, UCSF is looking for more walkers, supporters and volunteers for the fundraising event.
Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, PhD, has been named surgeon in chief of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Scientists have discovered that adult neural stem cells, which exist in the brain throughout life, are not a single, homogeneous group. Instead, they are a diverse group of cells, each capable of giving rise to specific types of neurons.
Flavio Vicenti, a kidney and pancreas transplant specialist at UCSF, is now president of the American Society of Transplantation.
In the last 40 years, scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structures of enzymes, but they've been stumped trying to translate the structure of enzymes into an understanding of their function – what they actually do in the body.
Craig Venter's recent announcement that his J. Craig Venter Institute research team had successfully made one new bacterial species from another brought this reaction from UCSF's premier synthetic biologist, Christopher Voigt, PhD.
In May, <i>TIME</i> magazine named UCSF microbiologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, as one of this year's 100 most influential men and women shaping our world.
A leading diplomat discussed called for peaceful solutions to ease tensions between the US and Iran at UCSF recently.
The health care system in California could save nearly $1.3 million a year with few adverse public health effects if it discontinued universal tuberculosis skin testing of children entering kindergarten, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
Every day, people use Google to learn more about an illness, drug or a treatment, or simply to research a condition or diagnosis.
After six to nine months of abstinence from alcohol, recovering alcoholics who were also chronic smokers showed a significantly lower rate of improvement in tests of memory, reasoning, judgment, and visual/spatial coordination than non-smoking recovering alcoholics in a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
In the last 40 years, scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structure of enzymes, but they've been stumped trying to translate the structure into an understanding of function — what the enzyme actually does in the body. This puzzle has hurt drug discovery, since many of the most successful drugs work by blocking enzyme action. Now, in an expedited article in <i>Nature</i>, researchers show that a solution to the puzzle is finally in sight.
Medical genetics is revealing ever greater secrets about rare disorders that strike newborns...
Mike Homer has been one of the leading forces in Silicon Valley for more than two decades. In May, he was diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as CJD. Now, the 49-year-old husband and father of three young children is fighting for his life, with the assistance of physicians at UCSF Medical Center.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has finalized its first-ever campuswide strategic plan, a vision for the future with specific recommendations to guide its global leadership in health sciences.
Last Wednesday, President Bush issued his second veto of a bill that would have ended federal restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. UCSF's Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, says the move puts a strain on a field that is just finding its wings.
Effective July 1, UCSF will integrate clinical services previously provided separately by the campus and medical center into a single clinical care delivery system.
Three members of the campus community are doing their part for UCSF's participation in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 15.