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Largest U.S. Genetic Biobank Reveals Early Findings
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UCSF Receives $2 Million to Advance UC-Wide Biobanking Initiative
<p>UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has been awarded $2 million to advance a biobanking project involving the five University of California campuses.</p>
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Iceman Was Central Europe Native, New Research Finds
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Media Advisory: UCSF Global Health Experts to Speak at TEDxSF
Seven global health experts from UCSF will speak this Saturday at TEDxSF, which is focused on the theme "7 Billion Well: Re-imagining Global Health."
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1986 Chernobyl Accident Cleanup Workers 'Had Significantly Increased Risk of Leukemia': Study
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Uncle Sam to Start Tracking Tobacco Use in Movies Aimed at Kids
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Experimental Malaria Vaccine Disappoints, But Work Continues
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Exposure to Low-level Radiation Can Cause Leukemia, U.S.-Ukraine Study of Chernobyl Cleanup Workers Finds
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AAMC Board Chair Mark Laret Calls On Academic Medical Centers to 'Think Differently'
<p>Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, says academic medical centers must reconsider their traditions, practices and culture to thrive amidst significant funding cuts.</p>
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Study Suggests Statins May Help Fight Cancer
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Chernobyl Cleanup Workers Had Significantly Increased Risk of Leukemia
A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia.
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Students Rally Around 9-year-old Classmate
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Genital Injuries Send 16,000 to E.R. Every Year
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Even Yeast Mothers Sacrifice All for Their Babies
A mother’s willingness to sacrifice her own health and safety for the sake of her children is a common narrative across cultures — and by no means unique to humans alone. Now an unexpected discovery at UCSF shows that even yeast “mothers” do it, giving all to their offspring — even at the cost of their own lives.
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The Need for Connection in the Age of Anxiety
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Health Insurance at Heart of Raley's Strike
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Chornobyl Workers' Leukemia Risks Estimated
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Genital Injuries Send 16k People to ERs Each Year
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Diabetes Care Tailored to Asian Subgroups
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Healthcare Industry Leaders React to Obama's Re-election
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Science May Benefit from Election Despite Fiscal Cliff
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Novartis Heart Failure Drug Cuts Death by 37 Percent: Study
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'Hero of the Hudson' Applies Lessons from Aviation to Improve Patient Safety
<p>Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who successfully landed a jetliner in New York's Hudson River in 2009, shared lessons from the aviation industry with UCSF leaders, physicians and health sciences students that he said could greatly improve patient safety.</p>
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Passage of Proposition 30 Puts Education on Path to Fiscal Stability
<p>The University of California will avoid $250 million in spending cuts this year, after voters Tuesday approved Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's signature tax measure.</p>
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Does Being Black and Poor Increase Our Risk of Kidney Disease?
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Pregnancy Hormone Shows Promise as Heart Failure Drug
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"Smoke-Free" Laws Lead to Fewer Hospitalizations and Deaths
Laws that end smoking at work and other public places result in significantly fewer hospitalizations for heart attacks, strokes, asthma and other respiratory conditions, a new UCSF analysis has found.
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One in Five Smokers Lights Up While Hospitalized
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Heart Failure Drug Shows Promise in Phase III Clinical Trial
<p>Hospitalized heart failure patients who received the drug, serelaxin, in a phase III clinical trial had fewer disease symptoms and as a group experienced 37 percent fewer deaths over six months, according to results of a new study.</p>