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UCSF won the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce’s award for economic development as part of the 19th Annual Excellence in Business Awards, known as the “Ebbies.”
CT scans to detect lung cancer early can save lives, according to a study of 53,456 current and former smokers ages 55 to 74.
New UCSF Faculty, November 2010
A tiny, translucent juvenile zebrafish, on the hunt for even littler prey, has offered up a big insight into how a specific circuit of nerve cells functions in the brain.
Faculty and staff may donate much-needed funds to nonprofit programs and agencies that work to save lives and strengthen the community through the UCSF Charitable Giving Campaign.
UCSF’s recent Bay Area Global Health Summit ignited robust discussion in hopes of stimulating ideas that lead to tangible progress toward <i>advancing health worldwide™</i>.
Four UCSF scientists sent a letter last April to the President’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, expressing concern about the health risks of full body scanners being implemented at U.S. airports.
UCSF global health experts have outlined a new strategy and action plan to help countries eliminate malaria and bring the world closer to global eradication of the deadly disease.
UCSF has captured the excitement of the two-day groundbreaking festivities for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in a new video now posted online.
As San Francisco prepares to celebrate the 2010 World Series champions with a parade today, UCSF’s Stuart Lustig explains why fans are so excited about the San Francisco Giants.
Researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF, and Pfizer Inc., have determined that two new compounds may be effective in treating both alcohol and nicotine dependence at the same time.
Paul Simpson, a cardiologist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and a professor of medicine at UCSF, has been named the 2010 Thomas Smith Memorial Lecturer by the American Heart Association.
<p>Scientists this week are moving into the headquarters for the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF, where they will continue to advance a field transformed by the revolutionary achievement of Shinya Yamanaka.</p>
UCSF Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and researcher Elissa Epel, PhD, are co-authors with UC Davis scientists of a paper showing that the positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with greater activity of the enzyme telomerase.
New technologies and techniques continue to accelerate the pace of discovery in human genetics research, a fact made clear by scientists who spoke about their searches for important mutations, gene variants and answers to basic biological questions at the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics’ fifth-anniversary symposium on Oct. 28.
In response to her study published Nov. 1 in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, speaks to UCSF Today about how parents can better approach teens on the topic of sex.
Faculty and staff who missed the UC town hall meetings on post-employment benefits in October can see the video online on UStream.
In the first study to look at the prevalence of pain experienced among older people during the last two years of life, researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center found that 46 percent of study participants suffered moderate to severe pain during their final four months of life.
Half of teens who have oral sex during the ninth grade will have intercourse by the end of the 11th grade, and most sexually active teenagers will begin engaging in oral sex and sexual intercourse within the same six-month period, according to findings from a new survey conducted by researchers at UCSF and UC Merced.
UCSF recently honored the best in community partnerships, including programs that work with children, patients with developmental disabilities and the homeless.
New UCSF Faculty, November 2010
Anti-inflammatory drugs currently used to treat diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis may also help prevent cognitive decline after surgery, according to a new study led by researchers at UCSF and colleagues at Imperial College London.
Rapamycin, an FDA-approved drug prescribed to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs, has been shown for the first time to decrease excessive alcohol consumption, binge drinking, and alcohol-seeking behavior in rodents.
UCSF hosted a two-day celebration to commemorate the historic groundbreaking of its new medical center at Mission Bay.
<em>The Lancet</em> launched a special series on malaria elimination Oct. 29, led by the Global Health Group (GHG), a part of UCSF Global Health Sciences. The series included work by 36 authors worldwide, with guidance and support provided by a GHG-convened global advisory group of malaria experts, known as the Malaria Elimination Group.
As construction of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay begins, local residents and employees gathered Wednesday to celebrate the milestone with a family-friendly, community-centric event.
More than 200 people turned out on Tuesday to celebrate the groundbreaking for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, where the celebration continues today with a festival for employees and members of the community.
As the World Series is set to kick off tonight, a couple Giants baseball legends paid a special visit to some of their smallest fans at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.