Communication is Key to Medication Adherence
A new study suggests preparing doctors to be better communicators may help improve medication adherence and ultimately health outcomes.

University of California San Francisco
A new study suggests preparing doctors to be better communicators may help improve medication adherence and ultimately health outcomes.
<p>A singing professor is using music to teach medical students the fine details of human health and disease as they progress in their specialties at UCSF.</p>
<p>Since receiving a life-saving liver transplant at UCSF, Alfonso Garcia has made it a mission to spread the word about the value of organ donation. He will ride on the Donate Life float at the 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade in honor of his donor, George Becker.</p>
<p>UCSF is initiating a process to identify real estate opportunities for its Laurel Heights campus to help create a compelling vision for the 10-acre site that will benefit the neighborhood, the City and County of San Francisco and UCSF.</p>
If the sinful excess of holiday eating sends your system into overload, you may be upsetting the body’s “food clock,” which keeps the human body on a metabolic even keel. A new study by UCSF researchers is helping to reveal how this clock works on a molecular level.
A roundup of what happened in 2012.
<p>The year 2012 has been punctuated by numerous successes: A stem cell scientist won the University’s fourth Nobel Prize. The new electronic health records system is connecting physicians while transforming patient care. And Mission Bay continues to be an epicenter of expansion.</p>
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have mapped the molecular mechanism by which a virus known as cytomegalovirus (CMV) so successfully infects its hosts. This discovery paves the way for new research avenues aimed at fighting this and other seemingly benign viruses that can turn deadly.