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Archive: Many SF School Cafeterias Parched as Tap Water Deadline Looms
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Archive: Daphne Stannard: Strengthening Ties Between Research and Hospital Nursing
<p>Daphne Stannard’s story mirrors an important shift in nursing: the tightening connection between the ivory tower and the practice setting or, as the nurse researcher puts it, “diminishing the dichotomy between academia and service.”</p>
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Archive: UCSF Scientists Working to 'Program' E-Coli
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Archive: Champion Charities Gives UCSF $2.5 Million to Tackle Brain Disease
<p>Former NFL players Harris Barton and Ronnie Lott recently presented a check for $2.5 million on behalf of Champion Charities to UCSF’s Brain Tumor Research Center to support its mission to eradicate brain disease.</p>
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Archive: 3 S.F. Hospitals, Kaiser Lauded for LGBT Care
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Archive: Gladstone Institutes Ranked No. 1 Academic Employer
The Gladstone Institutes has been named America’s best place to work in academia, capping a seven-year stint in which readers of <i>The Scientist</i> have ranked the independent biomedical-research organization among academia’s top ten places to work.
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Archive: Mixed Report on Women's Health Research
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Earns Perfect Healthcare Equality Index Score for Fifth Consecutive Year
UCSF Medical Center today became the only institution in the United States to receive a perfect score on the LGBT Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) for five consecutive years.
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Archive: Gay rights group: Bay Area Hospitals Lead the Way in LGBT "Equality" Standings
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Archive: The 2011 Hot 20 Under (And Over) 40 Readers'
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Archive: Cured Meats Not Linked to Pancreatic Cancer
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Archive: UCSF Names Lium to Lead New Innovation Office
<p>Erik Lium has been named assistant vice chancellor of UCSF's newly created Office of Innovation, Technology and Alliances to provide the strategic leadership to both support innovation on campus and foster external alliances to advance biomedical research.</p>
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Archive: UCSF-Led Team Decodes Evolution of Skin and Ovarian Cancer Cells
A team of researchers led by scientists at UCSF has developed a way to uncover the evolution of human cancer cells, determining the order in which mutations emerge in them as they wend their way from a normal, healthy state into invasive, malignant masses.
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Archive: Ovarian Cancer Outcomes May Improve with "Dose-Dense" Chemotherapy
<p>UCSF gynecologic oncologist John K. Chan, MD, is leading a nationwide endeavor to evaluate a new strategy called “dose-dense” chemotherapy to improve treatment outcomes for women with ovarian cancer.</p>
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Archive: Researchers Look at Abortion 'Stigma'
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Receives Honorary Degree from Princeton
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann was among six distinguished individuals to receive an honorary degree from Princeton University during commencement exercises on May 31.</p>
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Archive: Teen Drug Use Is Number One Health Problem in US, Study Says
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Archive: Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Announces Retirement
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Archive: New Funding Supports Fight Against the Greatest Challenges of Preventing and Treating Diabetes
<p>The UCSF Diabetes Family Fund for Innovative Patient Care, Education and Scientific Discovery, created by one anonymous donor who is committed to diabetes research, is financing 11 projects that support creative, collaborative and imaginative innovations in diabetes clinical care, patient education, medical training and clinical and basic research. </p>
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Archive: MediBabble Attacks Language Barriers at the Doctor's Office
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Archive: Mining the Human Body with Michael Fischbach, PhD
<p>Having developed an algorithm that discovered a large quantity of drug-producing bacteria in and on humans, Fischbach has turned his lab’s attention to studying their populations and interactions with each other. This, he posits, can greatly influence a person’s overall health and disease.</p>
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Archive: Legacy of Mental Health Problems from Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Will Be Long-Lived
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Archive: Smarter Drug Delivery with Tejal Desai, PhD
<p>Swallowing pills means medication must face the challenge of surviving the harsh environment of the digestive tract. As a result, people must take larger doses than they need. Using micro and nano-fabrication techniques developed by the computer chip industry, Desai’s lab is creating tiny devices that take multiple drugs directly to where they are needed, using less medication, minimizing side effects and making the process safer for the patient. </p>
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Archive: Window into the Brain with Adam Boxer, MD, PhD
<p>Many researchers are finding that by the time a patient seeks treatment for symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, it’s often too late for the available drugs to have an effect. Boxer’s lab is studying very precise eye tracking methods to gauge mental fitness and identify cognitive decline decades before the first symptoms appear.</p>
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Archive: Movers & Shakers: Dr. Andrew Auerbach, The Next Editor of The Journal of Hospital Medicine
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Archive: LSD Alleviates 'Suicide Headaches'
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Archive: A Little Asthma Education Goes a Long Way
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Archive: Sleep and Pregnancy with Kathryn A. Lee, RN, PhD, FAAN
<p>With years of sleep research under her belt, Lee has recently focused on helping parents — especially new and expecting mothers — get enough sleep. From these studies, Lee has found worrisome correlations between sleep deprivation during pregnancy and increased instances of Cesarean operations and length of labor. By educating families about proper sleep hygiene, she hopes to promote healthier home environments for mothers and babies.</p>
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Archive: Growing New Teeth with Ophir Klein, MD, PhD
<p>By understanding the underlying biological processes that allow teeth to continuously grow in rodents and other mammals, Klein’s research aims to apply those principles to regenerative medicine in humans. Klein predicts that one day patients will be able to replace their own lost teeth with living, biological replicas instead of the prosthetics oral surgeons implant today.</p>