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Study Shows How Brain Tunes Out Background Noise, Hears One Voice
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Reinventing the Third-Year Medical Student
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UCSF Hosts First-Ever All-Alumni Weekend
<p>For the first time, UCSF is hosting a campuswide alumni reunion this weekend that will unite all four professional schools (dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy) and the Graduate Division.</p>
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101-Year-Old S.F. Doctor Gets a House Call From Itzhak Perlman
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Gladstone Scientists Regenerate Damaged Hearts By Transforming Scar Tissue into Beating Heart Muscle
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
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Warren Buffett, Prostate Cancer Patient: 'Excellent' Prognosis; a Reason to Screen?
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The Cocktail Party Effect: How We Tune In to One Person at a Loud Party
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Brain Cancer Vaccine Extends Life Expectency: Other Cancer Vaccines In The Works
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How Selective Hearing Works In the Brain
<p>The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — is solved this week in the journal <em>Nature</em> by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>
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Breakthrough Offers New Hope for Heart Repair
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'Cocktail Party Effect' Identified in the Brain
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Killing in War Linked with Suicidal Thoughts Among Vietnam Veterans, Study Finds
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Robert Grant: AIDS Researcher
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How We Identify Single Voices in a Crowd
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Scientist Robert Grant Named One of Time Magazine's TIME 100
<p><em>Time </em>magazine has named Gladstone and UCSF scientist Robert Grant, MD, MPH, to the <a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112159,00.html" target="_blank">2012 TIME 100</a>, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.</p>
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Marijuana Use Higher in Young Adult Smokers than Previously Reported
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 than previously reported.
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The Genome Is a Structure, Not Just an Abstraction
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UC Global Health Attracts NIH Funds to Train Next Generation of Global Health Researchers
<p>The UC Global Health Institute has received one of five, $4 million grants from the Fogarty International Center to support 50 to 60 new fellows in global health research over the next five years, starting September 2012.</p>
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Pricier Therapy No Better for Early Prostate Cancer
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Most Breech Births Are Now by C-section: Study
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UCSF Chancellor Discusses "New Social Contract" for Patients with The Wall Street Journal
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann spoke with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/17/working-toward-a-new-social-contract-for-health-care/" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> reporter Amy Marcus about her vision of a “new social contract” for patients participating in the health care system.</p>
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Brain Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
A new brain cancer vaccine tailored to individual patients by using material from their own tumors has proven effective in a multicenter phase 2 clinical trial at extending their lives by several months or longer. The patients suffered from recurrent glioblastoma multiform — which kills thousands of Americans every year.
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Hospital Readmission Rates Misleading, UCSF Medical Center Study Finds
A new UCSF Medical Center study finds that publicly reported “hospital readmission rates” often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery that may be misleading to patients.
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UC HIV Program Funds 3 Prevention Projects Using Gilead Drug
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Working Toward a New Social Contract for Health Care
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Brain Tumor Vaccine Shows Promise in Early Trial
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Spotlight: Kirsten Thompson
Spotlight on Kirsten Thompson, of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health in the School of Medicine’s Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
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Value of Genomics and Personalized Medicine Is Wrongly Downplayed
<p>A recent <em>New York Times</em> online headline, "Study Says DNA's Power to Predict Illness is Limited," explains that your genome is not your destiny. Who’d have thought? Many scientific experts in human genetics, for starters.</p>
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The Pros and Cons of Rx Robotics