California Voters to Decide on Increasing Cigarette Tax
<p>On June 5, California voters will decide whether the state should impose a $1 per pack tax on cigarettes, as well as a corresponding tax increase on other tobacco products.</p>
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Smoking During Pregnancy Linked to Severe Asthma in Teen Years
African-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study led by a research team at UCSF.
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GOOD Video: How Do We Make Learning Relevant to Students?
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Researchers Discover Better Care for Kids with Crohn's
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UC San Francisco Finds Possible New HIV Vaccine or Treatment Target
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Could It Be Crohn's?
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Veterans Affairs to Open Mission Bay Research Center
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UCSF Names Interim Director of Center for Health Professions
<p>After 20 years at founding director of UCSF's Center for the Health Professions, Ed O’Neil is stepping down to retire and Sunita Mutha has been named interim director.</p>
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UCSF Researchers Identify A Potential New HIV Vaccine/Therapy Target
After being infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in a laboratory study, rhesus macaques that had more of a certain type of immune cell in their gut than others had much lower levels of the virus in their blood, and for six months after infection were better able to control the virus.
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Study Says States Don't Spend Enough on Tobacco Control
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Discovered: The Magic Word
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Medical Student Confronts Cancer at Bench, Bedside and Beyond: Sam Brondfield
<p>Fourth-year medical student Sam Brondfield has spent his student career exploring disease in every stage. It’s ambitious, but Brondfield — who first was interested in studying the stars — has always seen the bigger picture.</p>
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Holocaust Survivor Shares Her Story
<p>The UCSF Spine Center helps more than 10,000 patients every year, but few have the back story of Gloria Lyon, a Holocaust survivor who suffered from malnutrition and hard labor in seven Nazi concentration camps.</p>
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$20-Million Gift Supports Neuroscience at UC San Francisco
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New Study Sounds Warning on Hormone Replacement Therapy
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Raging Arizona
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Why Did Her Husband's End-of-Life Care Cost So Much?
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Mission Bay Impresario Retires
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White House Petitioned to Make Research Free to Access
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UCSF to Participate in World No Tobacco Day on May 31
<p>The UCSF community is invited to participate in World No Tobacco Day on May 31.</p>
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Mission Bay Casts Wide Net After Salesforce Exit
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Neuroscientist Talks About Transformation of Biomedicine During Commencement Address
<p>An aspiration of UCSF faculty and campus leaders is that the students trained here continue to transform biomedicine through innovation and risk taking, a theme highlighted by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, president at Rockefeller University, who delivered the 2012 Graduate Division commencement speech on May 18.</p>
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Breast MRI Best at Tracking Response to Chemo: Study
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New Growth Industry: Bay Area Biotech Incubators
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Neurons Transplanted into Mouse Spines Reverse Chronic Pain
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Votes Sought to Support Tree Planting on Mount Sutro
<p>Members of the UCSF community are asked to show their support of the UCSF Sutro Seed Propagation Area and the Sutro Steward's volunteer program in a national contest to win a $10,000 grant from Odwalla for a tree-planting project.</p>
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Routine Care for Crohn's Disease in Children Should Include Measurement of Bone Age
Measuring bone age should be a standard practice of care for pediatric patients with Crohn’s disease, in order to properly interpret growth status and improve treatment, according to a new study from the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
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UCSF Receives Transformative Gift for Neuroscience Research and Care from Sandler Foundation
UCSF has received a challenge gift of $20 million from the Sandler Foundation that will provide major support for the university’s groundbreaking research and clinical care efforts regarding neurological diseases.
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Pain-Killing Transplants
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State Tobacco Prevention Funding Lacking, CDC Report Shows