UC Board of Regents Announces First Steps in Search for New UC President

University of California San Francisco
<p>Ever the innovator, UCSF is using a new fundraising method to advance health sciences research.</p>
Researchers have mapped the three-dimensional global connections within the brains of seven adults, which reveal new details about the condition known as agenesis of the corpus callosum, one of the top genetic causes of autism.
<p>A memorial service will be held March 8 to honor the life of Maurice Galante, MD, professor emeritus and a renowned surgeon at UCSF, who passed away at his home on Feb. 5, 2013. He was 93.</p>
<p>Staff are invited to voice their opinions about UCSF in a second survey being conducted from March 4 through March 22 to gauge their level of engagement in their work.</p>
The results of a large epidemiological study conducted at UC San Francisco suggest that sugar may have a direct, independent link to diabetes.
Emergency departments play a critical role in health care, yet consumers typically know little about how medical charges are determined and often underestimate their financial responsibility -- then are shocked when the hospital bill arrives.
<p>Lower-income patients want to communicate electronically with their doctors, but the revolution in health care technology often is not accessible to them, due to inadequate health information services within the health care clinics they frequent, according to a survey by UC San Francisco researchers.</p>
<p>Researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital have received a $1.75 million grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support the discovery of innovative treatments for childhood cancer.</p>