University of California San Francisco
UCSF, in partnership with the California State Assembly and San Francisco Board of Supervisors, will offer free children’s dental screenings in conjunction with the Bayview Opera House Sunday Streets Family Health and Wellness Fair.
<p>UCSF Transportation Services will be making changes to campus shuttle stops and schedules beginning July 5.</p>
<p>Despite a rise in the number of emergency room patients, the number of hospital-based emergency departments in the nation is declining, according to a study led by Renee Hsia, a clinical professor of emergency medicine, and featured in a recent issue of the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association.</em></p>
<p>Doctors and other health care professionals packed into San Francisco General Hospital’s Carr Auditorium for the June 7 medical grand rounds, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS report to the US Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention.</p>
<p>In celebration of commencement 2011, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann congratulates graduates and takes the opportunity to tout what makes UCSF great in a new video posted on YouTube.</p>
<p>UCSF will fund four innovative educational projects to continue to train the next generation of leaders in health sciences to work as a team. </p>
A 10-month study of healthy honey bees by UCSF scientists has identified four new viruses that infect bees, while revealing that each of the viruses or bacteria previously linked to colony collapse is present in healthy hives as well.
<p>San Francisco General Hospital's internationally renowned Ward 86, one of the oldest and largest HIV/AIDS clinics in the United States, has from the start of the epidemic led efforts to understand HIV and develop treatments that make it possible for patients to manage the disease.</p>
<p>Thanks to life-saving treatment, in a few years most people in the United States living with the AIDS virus, HIV, will be more than 50 years old. But even among the successfully treated, HIV, is associated with chronic inflammation, and higher rates of chronic diseases of aging. Inflammation may be a driver of aging, some scientists believe, and HIV patients may be vulnerable to accelerated aging as a result.</p>