Dean Schillinger Receives 2016 James Irvine Foundation Award
Dean Schillinger is one of six Californians awarded this year’s James Irvine Leadership Award, for his clinical work focused on diabetes in vulnerable populations.
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Community Dental Clinic Provides Free Care to Low-Income, Homeless Patients
Being out of work often means being out of food, out of a home, out of options. But thanks to the UCSF School of Dentistry’s Community Dental Clinic, dental care is available to those who can least afford it.
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Team-Based Health Care Model Reduces Need, Improves Quality of Life for Complex Patients, Study Shows
A complex care model that is interdisciplinary and team-based and utilizes home visits reduces health care need and improves quality of life for medically complex patients, according to researchers at UCSF and the affiliated San Francisco VA Health Care System.
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More Support for Osteoporosis Drugs
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UCSF to Incorporate Lessons Learned From Mission Hall to Future Buildings
As UCSF looks to construct and renovate buildings over the next several years, leaders have committed to applying lessons learned from Mission Hall to future projects.
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UCSF Faculty Salary Equity Review Finds Few Gender-Based Inequities
UCSF has identified several departments in which women and men are not paid the same salaries for comparable work and is correcting those inequities, according to a recently released report.
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Prominent East Bay Cardiologists To Join UCSF Pediatric Heart Center
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals’ Pediatric Heart Center welcomes nine highly regarded East Bay cardiologists to its pediatric cardiac program.
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Gene Signature Could Lead To A New Way Of Diagnosing Lyme
Researchers at UCSF and Johns Hopkins may have found a new way to diagnose Lyme disease, based on a distinctive gene “signature” they discovered in white blood cells of patients infected with the tick-borne bacteria.
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In Palliative Care, Comfort Is the Top Priority
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S.F. Startup Lully Aims To Help Parents Calm Kids’ Night Terrors
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Ebola, Zika and More: Designing One Test to Catch Them All
With a tiny sequencing machine that plugs into a laptop’s USB port, UCSF’s Charles Chiu aims to diagnose infectious diseases quickly – and even catch the next wave before it strikes.
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UCSF, British Medical Journal Launch Global eLearning Portal for Researchers
UCSF has partnered with the British Medical Journal on a new e-learning platform designed to train physicians, healthcare workers and students around the world in conducting and publishing clinical research.
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$25 Million From Oberndorf Foundation To Advance UCSF Psychiatry, Neuroscience Research
UCSF has received an unrestricted $25 million commitment from the Bill and Susan Oberndorf Foundation to advance basic research in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences.
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As Assisted Suicide Becomes Legal, Doctors Wrestle with Power to End Life
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Years of Marijuana Use Linked to Some Memory Problems Decades Later
A new study conducted at UCSF looked at “mid-level” marijuana users and found that this group had worse verbal memory but no deficiencies in other measures of cognitive function.
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Landmark Study Finds Dementia Risk Varies Significantly Among Racial And Ethnic Groups
In the largest and longest study thus far of ethnic disparities in dementia risk, researchers compared six ethnic and racial groups within the same geographic population and found significant variation in dementia incidence among them.
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UCSF to Host Largest Academic Global Health Conference in U.S.
In early April, UCSF will host more than 1,500 global health faculty, students, staff and researchers from around the world for the largest academic global health conference in the U.S.
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Inside The Hautest Super Bowl 50 Parties & Events
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Discovery May Lead To Better Egg Screening And IVF Outcomes
Experts in IVF from UCSF have discovered a pattern of protein secretion during egg maturation that they say has the possibility of leading to a new, non-invasive test to evaluate the fitness of eggs before they are fertilized in the clinic.
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UCSF’s FY15 Sustainability Annual Report: Living Our Commitment to Health & Sustainability
From earning a LEED Gold Certification for the new Mission Bay Hospitals to hosting a forum on the health benefits of green building to making it easy and affordable to purchase 100 percent post-consumer waste paper, UCSF continued to live its commitment to leadership in health and sustainability during FY15.
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Dynamic Shoulder Key To Touchdown Passes
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More Common and More Harmful Than Once Believed, Delirium Takes Center Stage
Over the last couple of decades, a proliferating number of studies on the incidence and impact of delirium are causing the health care community to sit up and take notice.
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New Rapid Zika Test Could Contain Spread of Disease
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Webinars to Outline New UC Retirement Benefit Recommendations
UC President Janet Napolitano is inviting faculty, staff and other members of the UC community to provide feedback on task force recommendations for new retirement benefits that affect future UC employees. Two webinars are scheduled to field questions.
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Mike Denson: Safeguarding the UCSF Community
Mike Denson has spent decades in some of law enforcement’s most challenging positions – investigating homicides, negotiating hostage situations and leading a regional SWAT team. When he came to UCSF, he was excited by a different challenge: building a strong community that partners in its own safety.
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Legalized Marijuana In California Could Hurt Public Health, Analysis Says
Pending ballot proposals to legalize retail marijuana in California could lead to the development of a powerful new industry that could thwart public health measures for the sake of building revenues, according to a policy analysis by researchers at UCSF.
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UCSF’s Resource Allocation Program (RAP) Now Accepting Application for Spring 2016 Cycle
UCSF's Resource Allocation Program (RAP), which offers a single online application process for a wide variety of intramural grant offerings, is now inviting applications for the Spring 2016 cycle.
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New Clinical Skills Center Provides State-of-the-Art Training Space for Students
UCSF has opened the Clinical Skills Center to provide state-of-the-art space for students to practice their skills and do patient simulations.
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Walgreens Opens New Pharmacy at UCSF's Mission Hall
The new Walgreens store on the UCSF Mission Bay campus will supply outpatient medications as well as medical devices for the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, and even deliver medicine directly to patients at the hospital.
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The Evolution of Football: America’s Favorite Sport Celebrates What Makes Us Uniquely Human
You don't have to be an NFL star to throw better than any of our closest primate relatives. Human evolution has given us both the brain and brawn we need to make precise throws, but it comes with a few trade-offs.
