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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: 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.
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Archive: 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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Archive: UCSF Tops Public Universities in Fundraising for 2015
UCSF raised more than $600 million in private contributions in 2015, the highest total of any public U.S. university and fourth-highest of all U.S. universities.
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Archive: Estrogens Reverse Abnormality In Zebrafish Carrying Gene Mutation Associated With Autism
An international team of scientists has discovered that estrogens reverse a striking behavioral abnormality in zebrafish carrying mutations in a gene known to cause autism in humans.
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Archive: Tricked-Out Immune Cells Could Attack Cancer, Spare Healthy Cells
UCSF scientists have created a new class of highly customizable biological sensors that can be used to form “logic gates” inside cells of the immune system, giving these cells the capability to home in on and kill a wide range of cancer cells while preventing them from attacking normal tissue.
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Archive: Tweaking Mother Nature, Biologists Aim For Better Cancer-Fighting Cells
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Archive: Children Eat Equivalent of 5,500 Sugar Cubes A Year, UK Public Health Campaign Reveals
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Archive: Leslie Z. Benet Receives Highest Honor in Pharmacy
Leslie Z. Benet, PhD, a professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, has received the highest accolade bestowed by the American Pharmacists Association.
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Archive: Drug Provides Better Kidney Transplant Survival Rates than Current Standard of Care
For the first time, an immunosuppressive agent has shown better organ survival in kidney transplant recipients than a calcineurin inhibitor, the current standard of care, according to a worldwide study led by UC San Francisco and Emory University investigators.
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Archive: Scientists Move Closer To Understanding Schizophrenia’s Cause
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Archive: Brain Structure Governing Emotion Is Passed Down From Mother To Daughter, Says UCSF Study
A study of 35 families led by a UCSF psychiatric researcher showed for the first time that the structure of the brain circuitry known as the corticolimbic system is more likely to be passed down from mothers to daughters than from mothers to sons or from fathers to children of either gender.
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Archive: Brain’s Wiring Connected to Sensory Processing Disorder
Researchers at UCSF have found that boys and girls with sensory processing disorder (SPD) have altered pathways for brain connectivity when compared to typically developing children, and the difference predicts challenges with auditory and tactile processing.
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Archive: Women's Health Research Program Names 2 New Scholars at UCSF
Corinne Rocca, PhD, MPH, and Catherine Koss, MD, have been appointed to a UCSF Bixby Center and Kaiser Division of Research program to develop new researchers focused on topics unique to women’s health.
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Archive: Regular Caffeine Consumption Does Not Result in Extra Heartbeats, Study Shows
Contrary to current clinical belief, regular caffeine consumption does not lead to extra heartbeats, which, while common, can lead in rare cases to heart- or stroke-related morbidity and mortality, according to UCSF researchers.
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Archive: Caffeine Doesn't Give You Heart Palpitations, Study Finds
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Archive: For Breast Cancer Patients, Never Too Late To Quit Smoking
Documenting that it’s never too late to quit smoking, a large study of breast cancer survivors has found that those who quit smoking after their diagnosis had a 33% lower risk of death as a result of breast cancer than those who continued to smoke.
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Archive: Dreaded Zika Virus Not In Bay Area — For Now
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Archive: Unraveling the Ties of Altitude, Oxygen and Lung Cancer
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Archive: Broader Understanding of Heart Disease Risk
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Archive: Are We Ready for a Blood Test for Cancer?
What if screening for cancer was as easy as checking your cholesterol? That’s the promise of techniques currently in development that may one day make it possible to detect the earliest stages of cancer with an annual blood draw.
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Archive: The Cutting Edge Of Gene Editing
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Archive: Klint Jaramillo Named Director of LGBT Center at UCSF
Klint Jaramillo, MEd, MSW, has been named the new director of the LGBT Resource Center at UCSF, starting on Feb. 1.
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Archive: Myelin Cells Swing Along Blood Vessels to Traverse the Brain
The cells that create myelin, a fatty material that insulates nerve fibers in the brain’s white matter, migrate into the developing brain by climbing and swinging on blood vessels, according to new research led by UCSF scientists.
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Archive: UCSF Commute Tips to Be Ready for Wet Winter
UCSF Campus Life services has prepared commute tips for getting through heavy rains this winter.
