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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A Special Burden for Women
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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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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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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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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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Study Says States Don't Spend Enough on Tobacco Control
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Discovered: The Magic Word