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Radiation Dose Symposium at UCSF to Highlight Patient Safety
<p>A first-of-its-kind interactive and virtual radiology symposium will be based at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus in May, pulling together professionals at every level of hospital care to improve the safety of diagnostic imaging.</p>
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One Surgeon's Battles Against Big Tobacco and Our Ballot Box
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Hear That? In A Din Of Voices, Our Brains Can Tune To One
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Safeway Pharmacists Implement UCSF Smoking-Cessation Program
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UCSF Works to Identify and Treat Sepsis Patients Earlier
<p>Teams of UCSF clinicians each took shifts inside a bus set up to simulate the room of a patient showing signs of sepsis, as part of a Bay Area mobile initiative to improve the ability to identify and treat sepsis patients as early as possible.</p>
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Sleep Aids Tied to Hip Fractures In the Elderly
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7 Ways UCSF is Improving Safety at the Point of Care
<p>UCSF Medical Center, including the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, has made increasing the safety of health care one of its highest priorities. Here are just some of the ways it is working toward that.</p>
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Recipe for Relevance: Blend Digital Health Developers and Clinical Providers
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New Patient Safety Strategies Outlined in Report Based on Decade of Research
<p>The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new report that identifies the top 10, evidence-based patient safety strategies available to clinicians.</p>
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"Mortality Index" Suggests Key to Living to 2023 Includes Being Slightly Overweight
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Pediatric Residents Training in New 'Handoff' Curriculum
<p>In response to mounting evidence that serious errors in hospitals often could be prevented by enhancing communication, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital is participating in the nine-center <a href="https://www.ipasshandoffstudy.com/">I-PASS study</a> to determine how to best teach residents to properly hand off pediatric patients to reduce errors.</p>
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Former Genentech Exec Susan Desmond-Hellmann Joins Facebook's Board of Directors
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Facebook Names UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann to Board
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Health Policy Studies at UCSF: A Sense of Pride and Purpose
<p>About 450 people recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the UCSF's Institute for Health Policy Studies, which has a record of excellence in shaping health policy on a local, national and international level.</p>
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New Clinical Tool Assesses Health Risks for Older Adults
A UCSF team has developed a tool that can help determine – and perhaps influence – senior citizens’ 10-year survivability rates by assessing their health risks.
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Newly Identified Human Cells Might One Day Heal Damaged Tissue and Organs, Researchers Say
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Your Chances Of Dying By 2023? Test Offers A Clue
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Bendable Needles Developed to Deliver Stem-Cells into Brains
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Over 50? Checklist May Predict If You'll Be Alive in 10 Years
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HIV Testing Increased and Infection Reduced in Africa with Community Intervention
<p>Community intervention with free mobile HIV testing and counseling, same-day results and post-test support led to a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections in targeted communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to results of a large randomized, controlled trial.</p>
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Hindu Holy Event Yields Health Insights
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Parkinson's Disease Brain Rhythms Detected
A team of scientists and clinicians at UCSF has discovered how to detect abnormal brain rhythms associated with Parkinson’s by implanting electrodes within the brains of people with the disease.
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Devices Aim to Deliver on Stem-Cell Therapies
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Breakthrough Hailed as Radical Treatment Works on Baby Born HIV-Positive in Atlanta
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New Type of Pluripotent Cell Discovered In Adult Breast Tissue
UCSF researchers have found that certain rare cells extracted from adult breast tissue can be instructed to become different types of cells – a discovery that could have important potential for regenerative medicine.
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Marathon: San Francisco's Meyer Claims Women's Race
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UCSF Discovery a Potential "Earthquake" for Stem Cell Therapies
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Attention Deficit Disorder Often Lasts Past Childhood, Study Says
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Baby Born with AIDS Virus Appears to Have Been Cured