University of California San Francisco
A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—and three snakes named Juliet, Balthazar and Larry.
<p>Colin Boyle, MBA, has been appointed the first Deputy Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences.</p>
<p>The UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is participating in a nine-center study to determine how to best teach pediatric residents how to hand off patients properly to reduce medical errors.</p>
<p><span>UCSF’s mission of “advancing health worldwide” can begin at home with farmer’s markets conveniently located on campus.</span></p>
<p><span>Consistent with its commitment to transparency and public accountability, the University of California on Thursday released its annual report on systemwide employee compensation for calendar year 2011. </span></p>
<p>The newest graduates of UCSF’s Global Health Sciences masters program are idealistic but well aware that they don’t live in an ideal world. They’re not going to let that stop them.</p>
<p>A first-of-its-kind UCSF course to help bioscience entrepreneurs secure funding met with high interest and overflowing classrooms during its five-week run this summer.</p>
<p><span>Sjögren's syndrome largely was unknown to the American public until tennis star Venus Williams withdrew from the U.S. Open last year and announced she had the autoimmune disease, in which a person’s white blood cells attack glands that produce tears and saliva.</span></p>
<p>For the millions of heart patients taking warfarin, an anticoagulant drug used to prevent dangerous blood clots, dosing is a time-consuming hassle. Too little won’t work; too much can be dangerous.</p>