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UCSF Statement: Email Phishing Breach
UCSF is providing notice to local news media regarding an email breach that included the names and some other identifiers of some of our patients.
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Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health to Work Collaboratively to Benefit San Francisco Community
Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the quality of health care in the San Francisco community, combining the strengths and resources of both organizations.
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UCSF Improves Care Options for Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancer
UCSF's Division of Surgical Oncology is currently the only center in Northern California offering surgical insertion of hepatic artery infusion (HAI) for patients.
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Small Steps Can Yield Big Energy Savings and Cut Emissions from MRIs
Medical centers can reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by up to 51% by turning off MRIs and using a “power save” mode that cycles cooling components on and off.
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ZSFG and UCSF: 150 Years
The partnership between UC San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center started in 1873, when we began to collaborate on clinical care and education, based on our shared public mission.
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Made to Scale: Can We Grow More Equitable Health Care?
What keeps you up at night? For Kai Kennedy, DPT, it’s health equity — a complex mission that’s guided a lifelong journey from Virginia to West Africa, the Caribbean to Europe and now the Bay Area. But she didn’t get here alone.
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Sugary Drink Tax Improves Health, Lowers Health Care Costs
Oakland residents have bought fewer sugary beverages since a local “soda tax” went into effect, and that is likely improving their health and saving the city money.
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Editing Genes in the Microbiome to Prevent Disease
A $70 million grant from the Audacious Project will help UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers edit the genes of microbes in the gut and airways that play a role in asthma.
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UCSF’s Division of Cardiology to Partner with Rosenman Institute
the UCSF Rosenman Institute BUILD™ Heart Health program, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, aims to train the next generation of health technology entrepreneurs.
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Drug Resistance, Targeted Cell Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks
Leading cancer researchers from UCSF will present at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, held April 14-19, 2023, in Orlando.
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Body Dysmorphia in Boys and Men Can Fuel Muscle Obsession, Doctors Say
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There’s a More Humane Way to Monitor Crohn’s and Colitis Patients
IBD patients can avoid uncomfortable procedures such has colonoscopies and MRIs at UCSF’s intestinal ultrasound clinic – the first of its kind west of the Mississippi River.
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Clinical Advances Allow Patients to Avoid Open-Heart Surgery
UCSF interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed two novel minimally invasive cardiac procedures for the first time in the health system.
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How a Morning-After-Style Pill Could Help Rising STD Cases
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Learn Without a Brain Research Wins 2023 UCSF Grad Slam
Ten graduate school finalists competed in this year’s UCSF Grad Slam, in which students present their research in three minutes or less in terms easily understood by a general audience.
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UCSF Global Health Leader Jaime Sepúlveda Prepares to Step Down
After more than a decade, Jaime Sepúlveda will step down from his role as executive director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences in August 2023.
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Abortions Will Be More Painful Without Mifepristone. Advocates Say That’s the Point
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Norovirus Spreads Rapidly in California: How To Protect Yourself
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Female Physicians at California Hospital Take On Medicine’s Gender Gap
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UCSF Works to Restore Access to Mount Sutro After Storm Damage
UCSF is working to clear and repair damage to trails, buildings, roads and retaining walls throughout the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. Currently, the trails are dangerous and not open to the public.
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Overwhelmed? Your Astrocytes Can Help with That
A newly discovered brain circuit recruits brain cells called astrocytes to calm overactive neurons to produce a calming and relaxing effect.
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Your Opinion Matters: 2023 Staff Engagement Survey Coming Soon
The 2023 staff engagement survey will launch on Apr. 11. All UCSF, UCSF Health, and UCSF Benioff Children’s hospital staff can provide feedback on UCSF’s ongoing efforts to provide an inclusive and engaging place to work.
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Your Opinion Matters: 2024 Staff Engagement Survey Coming Soon
UC San Francisco will launch its annual staff engagement survey on Tuesday, April 9. Staff are encouraged to provide candid feedback in the survey to inform UCSF as it strives to provide a more inclusive and engaging place to work, and to foster support for staff members’ overall well-being.
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At Novel UCSF Dental Clinic, Kids with Autism Are All Smiles
UCSF Pediatric Dentistry’s Autism Program approaches dental care for kids with autism by creating personalized plans that will expose them to each step of a visit to increase their tolerance.
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Possible Culprit Identified in Outbreak of Severe Liver Damage Cases in Children
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Honoring an Inspiring Philanthropist: Gordon Moore (1929-2023)
Gordon Moore, a scientist and philanthropist whose contributions have greatly impacted UCSF and the Bay Area for future generations, passed away on March 24, 2023, at the age of 94.
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Severe Hepatitis Outbreak Linked to Common Childhood Viruses
A hepatitis outbreak in children occurred after COVID-19 lockdowns eased in 2022. Sudden exposure to a multitude of viruses upon reopening may have triggered this response in a small group of children.
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Academe at 198 Set to Open This Summer
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Colon Cancer Rising Among Young Adults 20-49 Years Old: Here Are Their Stories