University of California San Francisco
The initial member of a team developing the first headache clinic in the West with an inpatient component for diagnosis and treatment has arrived at UCSF.
Young faculty interested in male hormone problems, sexual dysfunction, infertility and related topics are sought for a new career training program at UCSF.
Carroll Estes, Dixie Horning and Maureen Shannon will receive the 2007 Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women on March 26.
"Sometimes it helps to have a 'cheat sheet' when you are working on a problem as difficult as deciphering the relationships among hundreds of thousands of genes. At least that's the idea behind a powerful new technique developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers to analyze how genes function together inside cells.
<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> writer Katherine Nichols' interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease, stems from her experience with a loved one who suffers from the disease.
The new HPV vaccine is the first one for girls only, and the first immunization recommended for children to protect against a sexually transmitted virus. But the vaccine also has global implications—cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women in developing countries, and in some countries, young men are being vaccinated as well.
Ten years ago Thursday, the public learned that Scottish scientists had cloned a sheep. On NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, UCSF stem cell scientists Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD, and Susan Fisher, PhD, spoke with science reporter Joe Palca about their efforts to study the human embryo in a difficult political climate, and confirm that cloned human embryos will inevitably produce stem cell therapies.
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Carlos Muñoz Jr. will talk about the struggle for a multicultural democracy today at noon.
A study underway at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and UCSF is probing the connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbances and stress hormones. Investigators hope the study will reveal a new potential method for treating PTSD, as well as shed light on the biology of sleep
Dean Kathleen Dracup says the UCSF School of Nursing must prepare for student enrollment growth and the eventual retirement of its aging faculty.
Some say extended cycle birth control pills are revolutionizing contraception for many women because it provides fewer periods, which means less pain, PMS and inconvenience, but is it safe? UCSF neuropsychiatrist and female hormone specialist Louann Brizendine, MD, says various forms of extended cycle pills have been used for years.
Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.
Chief surgeon William Schecter received the 2007 Special Hero Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently.
KPIX-TV's <i>HealthWatch</i> reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.
Moviemaking must be an art, because it usually gets the science all wrong...
Research at the University of California, San Francisco found a racial disparity in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Samantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.
If you could learn your odds of getting cancer, heart disease or diabetes, would you? A new generation of home genetic testing kits allows anybody with a cotton swab and a mailbox to find out. But does convenience come with a privacy risk?
Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center will be among the first health care workers to use a tablet-like PC called a mobile clinical assistant (MCA), developed specifically for medical professionals by Intel and Motion Computing. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.
The campus community is invited to celebrate Women's History Month in March, when UCSF hosts several events.
A memorial service will be held this Friday for Jere Edwin Goyan, PhD, former dean of UCSF's School of Pharmacy, who died Jan. 17.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended an event Friday where research grants for stem cell research were handed out. KGO-TV reports that now that grants have been given out there is still concern about how long it will take to make the research a reality.
Media pioneer and author Jerri Lange will discuss the "Power, Magic and Imagination of the Media" at UCSF on today (Feb. 20.)
The School of Pharmacy has joined in the effort to donate blood as a way to celebrate the centennial of the School of Nursing.
California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi visited UCSF last Friday when he heard about plans to build a new stem cell research building.
SAN FRANCISCO -- As evidence mounts that the body's normally protective inflammation response can drive some precancerous tissues to become fully malignant, UCSF scientists report discovering an apparent trigger to this potentially deadly process.
The number of medical students in the United States choosing careers in primary care has drastically fallen, threatening the foundation of the United States health care system overall.
Infants and preschool-aged children who live in daily circumstances of potential trauma and danger can develop the resilience to cope through treatment that focuses on strengthening parent-child bonds, according to a national expert in child development.
Has congenital heart disease found its match in a Texan named Deepak?
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