MEDIA ADVISORY: From Public Assistance to a Career at UCSF
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Press Kit: Construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
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UC Accepts Applications for UC Health Fellowship
<p>The University of California <u><a href="http://health.universityofcalifornia.edu/innovation-center/" title="UC Center for Health Quality and Innovation">Center for Health Quality and Innovation</a></u> is accepting applications for the UC Health Fellowship.</p>
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San Francisco Giants Fan Bryan Stow Leaves SFGH for Rehab
<p>Bryan Stow is now recovering after being treated for a severe brain injury at the UCSF-affiliated San Francsico General Hospital and Trauma Center, which recently became the first hospital in the country to be certified for a Traumatic Brain Injury Program by the Joint Commission.</p>
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John Baxter Remembered as Pioneer of Biotechnology and Translational Medicine
<p>John Baxter, a UCSF faculty member for more than 35 years, is being remembered as a pioneer of biotechnology and a leader in taking discoveries from the halls of academia to form companies aimed at developing medical therapies. He died in San Francisco on Oct. 5 following surgery for cancer.</p>
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State Caved to Industry Pressure to Use Pesticides
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Ceremony to Honor Workers, Mark Construction Milestone at Mission Bay Medical Center
<p>UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will celebrate a major milestone on October 17, with the placement of a 1,600-pound beam atop the sprawling hospital complex to signify the end of the structural steel phase.</p>
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Sperm Discoveries Shed Light on Infertility and Birth Control
<p>Sperm penetrates egg to complete fertilization is a happy ending hard to reach for many couples, but recent research findings — including the discovery of how progesterone attracts sperm to the egg — are engendering new ideas about birth control and infertility.</p>
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New York Times Profiles UCSF Chancellor: An Innovator Shapes an Empire
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Oct. 11, 2011 edition of the <em>New York Times</em>, which is reprinted here according to a license agreement with the University.</p>
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UCSF Offers Free Flu Shots to Faculty, Staff and Students
<p>UCSF continues to offer free flu shots to faculty, staff, students and volunteers through October 21.</p>
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UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay to Meet Demands of Information Age
<p>Chief Medical Information Officer Michael Blum sees the construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay as an opportunity to integrate new media and social media to improve the work flows of care providers and the experiences of patients and their families.</p>
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40 Million TB Deaths Due to Smoking Over Next 40 years
Smoking could cause 18 million more cases of tuberculosis worldwide over the next 40 years and 40 million additional deaths.
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Profiled in The New York Times
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 edition of The New York Times, in an article titled, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11profile.html?_r=3">An Innovator Shapes an Empire</a>.” Noting that UCSF is “widely regarded among scientists as one of the nation’s crown jewels of biomedical research, and a birthplace of biotechnology and innovation,” reporter Denise Grady highlights Desmond-Hellmann’s goal of making UCSF “the world’s pre-eminent health sciences innovator.”</p>
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UCSF Expert At Odds With New Prostate Screening Recommendations
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Prostate cancer test advice creates confusion
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UCSF MRI Technology Center Gets $5 Million NIH Grant to Develop Powerful New Imaging System
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded $5.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to advance new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that may offer doctors the chance to rapidly create scans of tumors and other diseased tissue that are far more detailed than any method now being used.
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Dr. Q, Former UCSF Medical Resident, Returns to Campus on October 10
<p>Former UCSF medical resident and stem cell researcher Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, will return to the University to speak about his time at UCSF on October 10 as part of the University's celebration of diversity.</p>
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Experts Discuss Personalized Medicine and Gene Discoveries in Disease at Genetics Symposium
<p>Personalized medicine and new gene discoveries in human disease were a focus of a daylong symposium hosted by the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics on the Mission Bay campus on Oct. 3.</p>
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Chancellor Shares Vision for UCSF to Become World's Preeminent Health Sciences Innovator
<p>In her third year as Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of <em>advancing health worldwide</em>.</p>
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UCSF Technology Center Wins $5.5M NIH Grant for New MRI Research
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Insurers Review Whether to Still Pay for Routine Screening
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Jobs's Rare Disease Ran Predictable Course
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$6.3 Million Center at UCSF and UC Davis Seeks Ways to Diagnose and Prevent Osteoarthritis
How people walk, jump and run and how their knees look in an MRI scanner may hold the secret to predicting years or even decades in advance whether they will develop osteoarthritis, the common degenerative joint disease that strikes half of all Americans by the time they reach the age of 70.
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Study: 69 million must travel longer to a trauma center
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Longer Trips to the ER, Especially for Minorities and Poor
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Closures of hospital trauma centers are disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured and African American populations, and nearly a fourth of Americans are now forced to travel farther than they once did.</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span> </span></span></p>
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Spiracur Donates 25 SNaP Wound Care Systems for UCSF IGOT Use and Training in Tanzania
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Symposium to Feature Health Care Disparities Research on October 7
<p>The campus community is invited to UCSF's fifth annual Health Disparities Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 7. </p>
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SF Mayoral Candidates Face Off at UCSF Mission Bay
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Chancellor's State of the University Address Transcript
<p>This is the transcript of UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann's State of the University address on Oct. 4, 2011.</p>
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Daughter's Hospitalization Renews Architect's Commitment to New UCSF Medical Center
<p>Herb Moussa, an architect working on construction of the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, credits UCSF with saving the life of his youngest daughter, Sarah.</p>