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San Francisco General Hospital Celebrates Topping Out
<p>Members of the community gathered Tuesday to celebrate the "topping out" of the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, which will house more than 284 beds, 14 operating rooms as well as an emergency room nearly three times larger than the current one.</p>
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Dipsea Champ Rivers Can't Wait for 'Dipsea Day'
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Digging Deeper: Hospital Team at UCSF Medical Center Sets Ambitious Green Goal
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Standard Measures of Clinical Care of Blood Pressure Misleading, Say Researchers
Standard performance measures used by health care systems and insurance companies to assess how well physicians are controlling their patients’ blood pressure tell an incomplete and potentially misleading story, researchers say.
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MLB Umpires Visit Sick Kids at UCSF Children's Hospital
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Amputee Athletes Push Physical Boundaries at Unique Clinic
A diverse group of young athletes came together recently for a common purpose: to participate in UCSF’s Amputee Comprehensive Training program at the Orthopaedic Institute, where they pushed themselves further than they had ever imagined possible.
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Ill, Older Patients Who Rely on Emergency Room Often Live Final Days in Hospital, Study Finds
Half of adults over age 65 made at least one emergency department (ED) visit in the last month of life, in a study led by a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Hormone-blocking Pill Zytiga Slows Prostate Cancer Growth
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Drug Slows Advanced Prostate Cancer
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Teens Whose Moms Smoked While Pregnant May Have Worse Asthma
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UCSF Medical Center Gets Great HealthGrades
<p>UCSF Medical Center was the only hospital in California to lead in both patient satisfaction and patient safety in a new report from HealthGrades, a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.</p>
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New Cancer Data Shine Spotlight On The Secret Committees That Make Medicine's Toughest Decisions
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Advanced Prostate Cancer Slows With New Drug
A new medication proved effective in slowing the spread of metastatic prostate cancer, while helping to maintain the quality of life, in patients with advanced disease, according to results of a UCSF-led study.
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A Drug for Advanced Melanoma Is Found to Prolong Patients' Lives
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Open Access Petition Passes 25,000 Threshold
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UCSF Advances Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis
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FDA to Let Women Try New Breast Drugs Earlier
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Interrupting Prostate Cancer Treatment Could Shorten Life, Study Finds
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Lance Armstrong takes on Big Tobacco in Calif.
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Kayakers Represent USA in Queen's Diamond Jubilee Flotilla
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Johnson & Johnson Prostate Cancer Drug Impresses
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Study: Hormone Pill Slows Prostate Cancer's Growth
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Zytiga: Hormone-Blocking Pill Slows Prostate Cancer Growth, Study Finds
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Alcohol May Trigger Serious Palpitations in Heart Patients
New UCSF research builds on a 1978 study called the “holiday heart syndrome,” establishing a stronger causal link between alcohol consumption and serious palpitations in patients with atrial fibrillation, the most common form of arrhythmia.
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J&J's Zytiga Slows Prostate Cancer While Easing Pain In Study
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Cancer Drugs: Better, Cheaper
<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing new recommendations for breast cancer trials that are based in part on groundbreaking, national breast cancer research led by UCSF.</p>
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Spotlight: Jim Murdoch
<p>Jim Murdoch is on contract for UCSF who works for the award-winning Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, Art for Recovery program providing music in the clinics and helping with ongoing patient support projects.</p>
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UCSF Prepares for AIDS Walk San Francisco 2012
<p>After finishing in third place among the top 10 fundraising teams, UCSF is looking to raise $55,000 in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 15.</p>
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A Special Burden for Women