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Archive: A Group Lifts Paraclimbers to Higher Goals
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Archive: Funding Needed to Support UCSF Researcher Helping Ebola Victims in West Africa
Dan Kelly, MD, a global health researcher at UCSF, is in Sierra Leone to help those impacted by the Ebola virus in Africa. Kelly is raising $100,000 for Wellbody Alliance, his nonprofit in Sierra Leone, to train his staff, equip them with spacesuits and other infection prevention tools.
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Archive: Weighing Pradaxa’s Risks
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Archive: UCSF Makes Top 5 in World Rankings for Medical, Life Sciences Universities
UCSF is among the top universities in the world yet again, ranking second in clinical medicine and pharmacy and fifth in life sciences in the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
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Archive: Can’t Stick to That Diet? Blame Your Gut Bacteria
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Archive: Making sense of death is the life of this 'Working Stiff'
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Archive: Gut Feeling: How Intestinal Bacteria Could Manipulate Your Brain
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Archive: A blood test can cost from $10 to $10,000 in Calif. hospitals, according to a study
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Archive: Study Finds $10 To $10,000 Price Range For Same Blood Test At Different California Hospitals
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Archive: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/08/15/a-10000-blood-test-yes-really/
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Archive: Wide Variation In Hospital Charges For Blood Tests Called ‘Irrational’
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Archive: Trials by fire: Tough to recruit patients for pancreatic cancer studies
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Archive: Charges for Blood Tests Vary Across California Hospitals
New UC San Francisco research shows significant price differences for ten common blood tests in California hospitals, with some patients charged as little as $10 for one test while others were charged $10,169 for the identical test.
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Archive: Do Gut Bacteria Rule Our Minds?
It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us – which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold – may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity.
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Archive: Even dentists differ on the best tooth-brushing method
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Archive: UCSF Exceeds Fundraising Goal for AIDS Walk San Francisco
Teams from UC San Francisco raised more than $79,000 in AIDS Walk San Francisco so far, exceeding its ambitious goal of $75,000. This puts UCSF in first place overall among top fundraising teams at the annual fundraiser, which took place on July 20.
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Archive: Our Microbiome May Be Looking Out for Itself
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Archive: Disinfectant Causes Reproductive Problems in Mice
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Archive: Robin Williams had early Parkinson's disease, wife says
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Archive: UCSF Doctor on Personal Mission to Stop Ebola
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Archive: How Blackburn Helped Unravel the Mysteries of the Telomere: Nobel Laureate’s Work Expands Understanding of Cancer Mechanisms
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Archive: 'Patients' who act sick valuable as teaching tool
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Archive: When mental illness affects your family
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Archive: Risk of death not significantly lower for heart attack survivors who run or walk excessively, study shows
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Archive: Robin Williams was a Secret Santa to sick kids
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Archive: South Asians have high risk of heart disease
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Archive: A New Surgery Risk
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Archive: The Doctor Can See You Now
How much does that fitness wristband or sleep app really tell you about your health? From a medical perspective, not much. That's about to change.
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Archive: Studies say our strains influence others