Archive: UCSF Schools Earn Top Rankings in 2017 US News Survey
UCSF’s schools of medicine, nursing and pharmacy received top rankings nationally in this year’s U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate schools.
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Archive: UCSF Grad Slam 2016 Winner Driven by Research in Sobering Center
Shannon Smith-Bernardin, a student in the Nursing Health Policy PhD Program, has won this year's UCSF Grad Slam contest. Ten finalists competed for the top prize of $3,000 and a chance to move on to the UC-wide competition.
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Archive: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Appointed Chair of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
UC San Francisco Professor Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo on Monday was appointed as the chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
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Archive: Watch UCSF Faculty, Leaders Speak at the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference
UC San Francisco leaders and faculty took part in the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference, a premier gathering in precision medicine.
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Archive: 'Hey Siri, I’m Depressed': Can Smartphones Answer the Call for Help?
Personal voice assistants are increasingly used by smartphone owners for a range of health questions, but in a new study the telephone conversational agents responded inconsistently and incompletely to simple questions about mental health, rape and domestic violence.
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Archive: Yes, 'Cheat' Meals Can Be A Part Of A Healthy Eating Lifestyle
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Archive: UCSF Zika Symposium Brings Together Bay Area Experts to Pool Latest Information
UCSF hosted a Zika symposium to bring together Bay Area experts and health officials to to help focus the research agenda as scientists around the world scrambling for information the virus.
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Archive: Saturated Fat ‘Short-Circuits’ Immune Cells To Trigger Inflammation
Research by UCSF scientists has opened up a surprising new avenue for potential therapies to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders that are associated with chronic tissue inflammation in obesity.
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Archive: Eating This Way Can Improve Heart Health
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Archive: Better Malaria Prevention for Pregnant Women in Africa
Pregnant women can be protected from malaria, a major cause of prematurity, low birth weight and death in infants in Africa, with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP), an artemisinin combination therapy that is already widely used to treat malaria in adults, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and in Uganda.
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Archive: Carter Cancer Announcement Shines Brighter Light on ‘Miracle’ Treatments
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Archive: Poor Communications, Premature Discharges Linked to Patient Readmissions, Study Shows
Hospitals face penalties for readmitting recently discharged Medicare patients, but in 27 percent of cases readmissions could be prevented, according to a UCSF-led study of 12 academic medical centers nationwide.
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Archive: Triple-Negative Breast Cancers Depend on Fat as Fuel, Research Shows
The most intractable common form of breast cancer might in most cases be treatable by drugs that target fat metabolism, according to UCSF researchers.
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Archive: CRISPR: Gene Editing Is Just The Beginning
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Archive: Poor Communications, Premature Discharge Linked to Hospital Readmissions
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Archive: Artificial Kidney Could Free Thousands From Dialysis
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Archive: Earlier Intervention for Type 1 Diabetes Sought with New Staging Classification
Two decades of research by the international research network Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet has helped to produce recommendations for a new type 1 diabetes staging classification.
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Archive: Tool Enables Doctors to ID Babies at Risk of Obesity, Study Says
Newborns who are heavier than average and gain weight rapidly in the first six months of life face a heightened chance of obesity by the time they are old enough for kindergarten, according to a study published on March 4, 2016, in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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Archive: Stephen Hinshaw Named 2016 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award Honoree by APS
Co-Vice Chair for Psychology Stephen P. Hinshaw as been selected by the Association for Psychological Science as one of its 2016 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipients.
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Archive: Trever Bivona: Finding the Pathways to Better Cancer Treatment
Life-or-death verdicts in cancer often result from the ways microscopic kinks and folds in proteins fit together within a tumor cell. While in college, Trever Bivona was fascinated by the idea that a single protein’s twists could determine the trajectory of the disease.
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Archive: 'Brain GPS' Component Allows Brain to Track Location When at Rest
UCSF scientists have discovered a network of brain cells that allows animals to keep track of where they are when they are not moving through space, such as when they are eating, engaged in social interactions, or sleeping.
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Archive: School of Nursing's Martha Ryan Honored as Part of Mayoral Women's History Month
The UCSF School of Nursing's Family Health Care Nursing volunteer faculty Martha Ryan will be honored by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and Mayor Edwin M. Lee.
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Archive: Joe Biden, Wife Hold Cancer Roundtable at UCSF
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Archive: 5 Surprising Ways Your Genes Can Affect Your Sleep
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Archive: UCSF Teach-In Spurs Powerful Dialogue on Injustice and Health
During only the second teach-in in more than two decades at UCSF, speakers engaged in a emotional discussion about injustice, intolerance and inequities and their profound impact on health in America.
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Archive: VP Joe Biden Visits UCSF to Advance National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited UCSF to meet with top cancer experts as part of the National Cancer Moonshot initiative to develop new approaches that fast-forward the development of novel therapies.
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Archive: UC Health Pledges Improved Data-Sharing with Patients at White House Precision Medicine Summit
UC Health committed to enabling patients to access and share their own health data, joining more than 40 other organizations that made various commitments to advance precision medicine during a White House summit this week.
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Archive: Homeless People Suffer Geriatric Conditions Decades Early, UCSF Study Shows
Homeless people in their fifties have more geriatric conditions than those living in homes who are decades older, according to researchers at UC San Francisco who are following 350 people who are homeless and aged 50 and over, in Oakland.
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Archive: UCSF Lab Working To Make Smarter Device To Help People With Diabetes
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Archive: Using Big Data to Chart Cancer’s Hidden Genetic Weaknesses
UCSF researchers are using big data to find cancer treatments by mapping gene networks and screening existing cancer drugs to test their effectiveness against dozens of different cancer gene variants.
