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During two weeks in October and November, Susan Merrell, a photographer who works in the Public Affairs department as a news assistant, spent time capturing images of the children, families and caregivers at UCSF Children's Hospital.
On NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, is interviewed about her book, <i>The Female Brain</i>, which attributes differences between the sexes to brain chemistry. Brizendine discusses these differences with Debbie Elliott.
The holiday season brought ballerinas and purple fairies to UCSF Medical Center recently.
Rene Salazar, Alice Wong and Hamdan Almas will receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards at a special ceremony at UCSF on Jan. 16, 2007.
Families participated in the Worldwide Candle Lighting ceremony at UCSF on Dec. 10.
It has been widely reported that Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota was treated on Wednesday, Dec. 13, for a ruptured arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. To learn more about this condition, we contacted Michael Lawton, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery at UCSF and an expert on AVMs.
UCSF School of Nursing faculty Geraldine Padilla and Erika Froelicher and Frederic Marteau, who is visiting UCSF from Belgium, are among the 2006 Fulbright scholars.
Men and women who were born at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital recently returned to the hospital to share their stories.
UCSF scientists have determined that adult stem cells in a specific region of the mouse brain have a built-in mechanism that allows the cells to participate in the repair and remodeling of damaged tissue in the region.
James Huang, MD, has joined the UCSF faculty in the Department of Pediatrics as an associate professor of pediatrics, and has been appointed the director of clinical hematology at UCSF Children's Hospital.
UCSF faculty and lung cancer survivors met recently to discuss new developments with the disease.
Cancer immunoresistance may be partially due to loss of a well-known tumor suppressor gene, according to new research led by Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
Registration is underway for the San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Training Program to be offered for free to UCSF staff.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has received a $3.7 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to fund an innovative program that will help underserved elderly Californians learn about and select from Medicare prescription drug plans.
Nominations for the Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women are due on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.
Patients who initiate a general discussion about the need for antidepressant medication with their primary care physician are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand-specific request or no request
A group of young physicians are delivering care abroad in HIV/AIDS while supporting local training initiatives to enhance sustainability.
Those interested in offering children a look behind the scenes at this health sciences campus are invited to learn more about Kids at UCSF Day on Monday.
Second-year medical student Harras Zaid has seen his share of organ transplants. Under the wing of UCSF transplant surgeons, he has traveled to distant hospitals to observe as the body of a person whose life has ended gives up the organs that will save or enhance many other lives.
UCSF Children's Hospital and George Mark Children's House residential hospice will each benefit from an advance screening of the live-action remake of E.B. White's classic novel "Charlotte's Web"
A graduate student's love of science needs no translation in Chile — or San Francisco.
The UCSF Spine Center recently acquired a new imaging system that will assist surgeons in navigation techniques and help the center expand and enhance surgical procedures. The technology is the first of its kind in the western United States.
Four promising postdoctoral scientists will receive both mentored and independent research support from a new National Institutes of Health award.
Ilene B. Anderson, PharmD, reports in the December <i>Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine</i> that the number of California teenagers using over-the-counter cough medicines to get high has soared in recent years, mirroring a national trend.
Faculty, staff and students now have one more reason to sign up for the City CareShare program.
Abuse of a drug found in popular over-the-counter cough and cold medicines has soared in recent years, particularly among adolescents, according to an analysis of phone calls received by the statewide California Poison Control System.