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Archive: Toe-tapping can wait; now it’s time for the Giants
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Archive: UCSF designated as priority Ebola treatment facility
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Archive: Film Exposes Audience to Human Enhancement Concepts
A crowd of students, nurses, doctors, and medical providers packed the film screening and panel discussion of “FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement.” The event, sponsored by the UCSF Committee on Disability Issues as part of 2014 Diversity Month, took a close look at the drive to be “better than human.”
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Archive: Thompson Funded to Study Household Air Pollution Among Low-Income Communities in Guatemala
Lisa Thompson, RN, PhD, associate professor in the UCSF School of Nursing, along with Anaite Diaz from Universidad del Valle and Christina Espinoza, co-founder of GenteGas SA, has won a Phase I grant award through Grand Challenges Canada, a global health organization funded by the Canadian government.
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Archive: Understanding Ebola
UCSF pathologist Charles Chiu answers some key questions about why the Ebola outbreak has spread so far, how it might be contained and what the real dangers are for people in the U.S.
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Archive: Real time maps could predict and prevent the spread of malaria
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Archive: 10 Ways to Improve Health Based on the Latest Non-Invasive Neurotechnologies
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Archive: ‘Mission in a Minute’ Series Showcases the Best of UCSF
Almost a year ago, we launched a video series called “Mission in a Minute” to showcase the best of the work that is being done at the University. This pioneering group shared passionately about their work at UCSF. Since their videos aired, we have had a constant stream of requests from people who wanted to share their work with the UCSF community and the rest of the world. "Mission in a Minute" returns this fall with a fresh, new look.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Again Named Best Hospital in San Francisco
UCSF Medical Center has been named the 2014-15 Consumer Choice Award winner for San Francisco by National Research Corporation, which identifies hospitals across the United States that health care consumers choose as having the highest quality provided by the best clinicians.
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Archive: California’s Tobacco Control Efforts Losing Steam, Finds UCSF Report
California’s position as a leader in tobacco control is under threat, according to a new report from the UC San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
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Archive: What the forensic evidence says about Michael Brown’s death
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Archive: S.F. State receives $17 million grant to help minorities
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Archive: PTSD Argued in Case of Marine Jailed in Mexico
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Archive: New class of abortion providers helps expand access in California
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Archive: What Monkeys Can Teach Us About Pitching in the World Series
New motor learning research suggests that "muscle memory" is actually something the brain is constantly relearning.
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Archive: UCSF Team Awarded Multimillion-Dollar Agreement with CDC
A UCSF-based team has been awarded a multimillion-dollar, five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to conduct economic modeling of disease prevention in five areas: HIV, hepatitis, STI (sexually transmitted infections), TB (tuberculosis), and school health.
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Archive: Hospital Logs Staggering 2.5 Million Alarms in Just a Month
UCSF researchers have, for the first time, comprehensively defined the detailed causes as well as potential solutions for the widespread issue of alarm fatigue in hospitals.
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Archive: Sri Lanka Celebrates Two Years Without Malaria
Sri Lanka has not reported a local case of malaria since October 2012. If it can remain malaria-free for one more year, the country will be eligible to apply to the World Health Organization for malaria-free certification.
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Archive: Encouraging Medical Students to Practice in Underserved Areas
More than 35 million people live in medically underserved areas in the United States, and by 2020, there will be a shortage of more than 90,000 physicians, mostly in areas that are already underserved. Christy Boscardin, PhD, and her colleagues from UCSF and the American Association of Medical Colleges wanted to find out if there was something medical schools could do to alleviate this.
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Archive: Genetic variant helps protect Latinas from breast cancer
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Archive: Forget Cheetah Blades. This Prosthetic Socket Is a Real Breakthrough
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Archive: S.F. Fire Department joins study into breast cancer risks
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Archive: Town Hall to Focus on UCSF Response to Ebola Epidemic
UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood will lead a town hall meeting on Friday, Oct. 24 to discuss the University’s response to the Ebola epidemic.
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Archive: DNA said to protect Hispanic women from breast cancer
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Archive: Study Links Latina Women With Gene That Lowers Breast Cancer Risk
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Archive: That sweet drink may age you
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Archive: Soda As Bad As Smoking? New Sugary Drink Study Has Some Interesting Preliminary Results
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Archive: UCSF Study: Drinking Soda Makes You Age Faster
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Archive: Smoking exacts high toll in California