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Interprofessional Education Expert Seeks to Improve Health Care
<p>Scott Reeves, PhD, director of UCSF’s Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Education, takes the national spotlight in Washington, DC, this week as co-chair of an Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshop that aims to improve health care.</p>
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Helping Children Cope with Grief Over a Miscarriage
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Don't Use a Broom to Sweep Up Hantavirus Contaminated Dust
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As Genes Learn Tricks, Animal Lifestyles Evolve
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Pure, White, and Out of Print: How a Sugar Screed Became a Rare Collectible
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Stigma of H.I.V. Is a Barrier to Prenatal Care
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When the Mango Bites Back
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UCSF, Mayo Team Discovers Genomic Variant That Increases Risk of Brain Tumors
People who carry a “G” instead of an “A” at a specific spot in the sequence of their genetic code have roughly a six-fold higher risk of developing certain types of brain tumors, according to a study by researchers at UCSF and Mayo Clinic.
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Before Gunfire, Hints of 'Bad News'
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Sleepless Nights May Put The Aging Brain At Risk Of Dementia
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Patients Negotiate for Care with Cash
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New Recruitment Service Helps Find Patients for Clinical Trials
<p>Many clinical trials fail to meet recruitment goals. To meet the challenge, UCSF has launched a Participant Recruitment Service and a Research Participant Registry.</p>
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'I Am Bad News,' Aurora Gunman James Eagan Holmes Warned Weeks Before Attack
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Pediatricians Decide Boys Are Better Off Circumcised Than Not
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James Holmes Told a Friend He Was "Bad News" Weeks Before the Aurora Massacre, Report Says
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Coursera Partners with Amara for Crowdsourced Captioning
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A Little Pot and Less Pain
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Sleep Problems May Contribute to Cognitive Decline
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Teens View Oral Sex as Less Risky
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Cuba Campaign Takes on 'Free' Health Care
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Health-care-cost PR Blitz Reminds Cubans It's Not Really Free; Government Pays, Amid Cutbacks
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Air District's Failures on Chevron Fire Show Need for Independent Inquiry
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Great Manager Profile: Doug Eckman
<p><span>Doug Eckman works at the intersection of dual bureaucracies. As director of operations for UCSF School of Medicine, Dean’s Office at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH), Eckman must navigate both the university and the city’s Department of Public Health. Despite the complexity and perhaps because of it, Eckman loves his work.</span></p>
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M.D. Training Programs Land $2.6M
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Former Olympians Help Celebrate UCSF Pediatric Transplant Surgery Success
<p>More than 300 children and their families joined former Olympians, UCSF doctors, nurses, social workers and others at the 17th annual picnic to celebrate the work of the Organ Transplant Service at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.</p>
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Cancer Drug Helps Patient Despite Faltering in Trials
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A Sleeping Timebomb
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Schools Look To New Health Care Program To Cut Costs
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Using Virtual Health Care Environments to Achieve Real-World Results
<p>On the surface, Parkinson’s disease and lung cancer have little in common, except that both have a devastating effect on many people’s lives. But two researchers from the UCSF School of Nursing have discovered the potential to use digital technology to help some patients manage these illnesses better than they can with existing methods.</p>