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Depression Linked to Higher Odds for Poor Leg Circulation
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Receives California Distinguished Citizen Award
<p>In an event that celebrated the energy, creativity and innovation of the Bay Area, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and three other Bay Area leaders were honored on April 18, each receiving the Commonwealth Club of California’s 2012 Distinguished Citizen Award.</p>
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J&J Funds Promising QB3 Research
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Vaccine for Brain Cancer Being Developed
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Two Unrelated Wednesday Afternoon Events
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Flossing Is Good For The Gums, But Doesn't Help The Heart
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Stunning UCSF Neuroscience Building Coming Online
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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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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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101-Year-Old S.F. Doctor Gets a House Call From Itzhak Perlman
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UCSF Researchers Decipher 'Selective Hearing'
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Media Advisory: Free Skin Cancer Screening at UCSF
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UCSF Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. The event is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague.
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How Can We Listen to Just One Voice at a Crowded Party?
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UCSF Police Inform Campus About World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week: April 21-29
<p>The UCSF Police Department would like to inform members of the UCSF community that April 21 through April 29, 2012, has been designated as World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. </p>
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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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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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The Genome Is a Structure, Not Just an Abstraction
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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