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Poor Odor Identification May Be Early Warning for Dementia
Poor performance on a simple odor identification test was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing dementia years later.
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Precision-Medicine Approach Could Revive Prostate Cancer Test
A new study identified genetic predictors of normal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in healthy men, which could be used to improve the accuracy of PSA-based prostate cancer screening tests.
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UCSF Research Building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Gets City Approval
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have unanimously approved a lease agreement that will allow UCSF to move forward with constructing a new research and academic building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
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Lily Jan, Yuh-Nung Jan Win 2017 Vilcek Prize Honoring Contributions of Immigrants
Lily Jan and Yuh-Nung Jan have received the 2017 Vilcek Prize in Biomedical Science, which recognizes extraordinary contributions to biomedical research made by immigrants to America.
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Paintings by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera Return to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
After a seven-year hiatus, a pair of paintings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have returned to the ZSFG following construction of the new hospital building.
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UC Statement on President Trump's Executive Order
UC President Janet Napolitano and the chancellors of the University of California have issued a statement expressing deep concern about the recent executive order that restricts the ability of students, faculty, staff and others from certain countries from being able to enter or return to the United States.
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Student Debt in the Health Professions Limits School Choice, Career Paths
The impact of the rising cost and mounting debt is two-fold: Universities struggle to compete for the best students, and costs become the overriding factor for many students in deciding where to get their education and what to practice after graduating.
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Autism Researchers Discover Genetic ‘Rosetta Stone’
Distinct sets of genetic defects in a single neuronal protein can lead either to infantile epilepsy or to autism spectrum disorders.
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John Clements, Whose Invention Helped Save Preemies’ Lives, Still Pushing His Field Forward at 93
John Clements has been an emeritus UCSF professor since 2004, but don’t expect him to be available to meet without his first checking his still busy calendar.
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Mom hopes rare biracial twins encourage people to 'love everyone equal'
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Food is Medicine for HIV-Positive and Type 2 Diabetes Patients
HIV-positive people and people with type 2 diabetes, who received healthy food and snacks for six months were more likely to adhere to their medication regimens, were less depressed and less likely to make trade-offs between food and healthcare.
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Therapy for Abnormal Heartbeats May Cause Brain Injury
A common treatment for irregular heartbeats known as catheter ablation may result in the formation of brain lesions when it is performed on the left side of the heart.
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UCSF's $200 million research building at S.F. General will bring researchers under one roof
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UCSF-Hosted Film Screenings Aim to Raise Awareness of Hearing Loss, Autism
Two days of film screenings that are being put on by UC San Francisco ReelAbilities Film Festival this month aim to help raise awareness of disabilities, including hearing loss and autism.
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New MRI Method Aids Long-term Concussion Prognosis
For concussion sufferers, physicians may now be able to predict early on who is more likely to continue experiencing symptoms months or years after the head-jarring event.
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E-Cigarettes May Lure Teens Who Otherwise Might Not Smoke
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E-Cigarettes Are Expanding Tobacco Product Use Among Youth
E-cigarettes – thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking – are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who might not otherwise have smoked tobacco products.
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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to Vote on New UCSF Research Building at ZSFG
At their Jan. 31 meeting, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote whether to recommend approval of a lease agreement that would allow UC San Francisco to construct a new research and academic building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
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Genetic Risk Factors for Autism, MS and Other Diseases Differ Between the Sexes
Study suggests, genetic variants that have distinct effects on physical traits in men versus women are also linked to men’s and women’s risk for a range of diseases – autism, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes.
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Shape-Shifting Nucleosomes Open New Avenues for Epigenetics Research
UCSF study demonstrates that nucleosomes actively change their shape as part of the larger process of epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
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Successful Immunotherapy Requires System-Wide Immune Response
New research has found that successful cancer immunotherapy appears to depend on whether the treatment can trigger a system-wide immune response, rather than just a local response within the tumor itself.
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App to Find Services at UCSF Receives Updates
The app the UCSF community uses to find everything from lunch specials to shuttle schedules has a new look.
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Shawn Douglas Receives Presidential Early Career Award
Shawn Douglas is one of 102 researchers recently named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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New ‘Immunoprofiler’ Initiative will Advance Drug Discovery, Precision Immunotherapy for Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies.
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Federal Funding in the New Administration and What It Could Mean at UCSF
Key members in the UCSF Science Policy and Strategy Group, as well as the Government Relations Office, discuss faculty concerns around decreased federal funding for biomedical research and advanced patient care, or the elimination of such funding altogether.
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Binge Drinking May Quickly Lead to Liver Damage
Alcohol consumed during just seven weeks of intermittent binge drinking harms the liver in ways that more moderate daily drinking does not.
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UCSF Launches Contest to Spruce Up Areas on Campus
Do you know an area of campus that could use a little sprucing up, maybe some deep cleaning, new carpet, paint, or landscaping?
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Study Explores How to Tell Children They Have HIV
There are an estimated 150,000 HIV-infected children in Uganda, and studies indicate less than a third of children under the age of 15 know they are infected.
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Official Abortion Rate Declined in Texas After Law Restricted Access to Clinics, UCSF-UT Study Finds
In Texas, increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.