University of California San Francisco
The completion of a massive genotyping on a large and diverse population marks an unprecedented milestone in population-based genetics research and offers a unique and powerful resource to help answer research questions about aging, health and disease.
Two-thirds of people with severe and otherwise untreatable epilepsy were completely cured of their frequent seizures after undergoing neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, according to a new study that examined 143 of these patients two years after their operations.
<p>Colleagues at UCSF and UC Berkeley are mournign the loss of Kevin Mack, MD, MS, a beloved professor, friend and father who died in an accident in San Francisco on July 14. He was 52.</p>
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann today issued an email outlining several safety campus shuttle bus measures following the fatal accident that killed Kevin Mack, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry.</p>
<p>UCSF bioengineer Tejal Desai builds medical implants – with parts as tiny as human cells – that may be used to treat diabetes, kidney failure and other diseases.</p>
Over half of all Alzheimer’s disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
<p>The UCSF community is invited to gather on July 21 to remember Kevin Mack, who died on Thursday during an accident involving a UCSF campus shuttle.</p>
<p>The UCSF team showed its spirit in the 25th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco, which drew more than 25,000 walkers and raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS programs and services in the Bay Area.</p>
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals for the 11th consecutive year and is the best in Northern California, according to the 2011-2012 America’s Best Hospitals survey conducted by U.S. News & World Report.
New mothers who practice expressing their breast milk by hand during the first days following their child’s birth are more likely to still be nursing two months later than mothers who use an electric breast pump, according to findings from a new study led by researchers at UCSF.