Archive: UCSF unveils model for implantable artificial kidney to replace dialysis
UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.
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Archive: UCSF Employee Assaulted at 16th and Mission Streets
A UCSF employee was struck in the face by an African-American woman while walking to the BART Station at night, according to the UCSF Police Department.
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Archive: UC Task Force Recommends Changes to Post-Employment Benefits
If Regents approve one of the recommendations from a UC task force on post-employment benefits, faculty and staff will contribute 5 percent of their pay to the UC Retirement Plan by July 2012.
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Archive: Biochemical pathway may link addiction, compulsive eating
Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, which is affiliated with UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Video Depicts Story of Mount Sutro
A new video describes proposals for the ongoing management of the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, a 61-acre forest within UCSF’s Parnassus campus.
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Archive: Can Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Be Stopped Before it Begins?
UCSF researchers at the San VA Medical Center have been working with US Air Force officers to develop and field test Deployment Anxiety Reduction Training with the goal of stopping post-traumatic stress disorder before it starts.
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Archive: Symposium to Highlight Prospects, Challenges of Translating Stem Cell Science into Future Therapies
UCSF is co-sponsoring a symposium on September 27 and 28 to provide scientists and physicians with the “nuts and bolts” of translating stem cell science into cell-based products for clinical trials.
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Archive: UC Considers Proposed Changes for Pension, Retiree Health Benefits
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Archive: Zen Hospice, UCSF partner on opening of new patient facility
A celebration of the Zen Hospice Project’s Guest House re-opening and new partnership with UCSF Medical Center.
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Archive: UC to Consider Proposed Changes to UC Retirement Benefits
The University of California will consider recommendations on changes to post-employment benefits that are outlined in a task force’s report now posted on the <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucrpfuture/">Future of the UC Retirement Benefits website</a>.
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Archive: Academic Senate Joins RAP Making Grant Process Easier for UCSF Researchers
The UCSF Academic Senate is now collaborating with other groups in the Resource Allocation Program (RAP) to make obtaining intramural research funding easier for faculty.
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Delivers First Anniversary Message
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann delivers a video message to the UCSF community to mark her first anniversary at the helm of the University.
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Archive: Stem cell ruling would halt research, UCSF scientist says
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Archive: Shavit Honored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for Community Leadership
UCSF physician Shira Shavit was honored recently for creating a medical home for former prison inmates and their families.
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Archive: Social Support is Key to Nursing Home Length of Stay Before Death
In a study of elderly Americans who moved to a nursing home for their final months or years of life, 80 percent died there within one year, according to an investigation by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Environmental Health Expert Calls for Improved Scientific Study of Gulf Coast Oil Disaster
UCSF environmental health specialist Gina Solomon is calling for improved scientific study of and publicly available and robust data about the health hazards posed by the BP oil disaster.
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Archive: UCSF research on smoking in movies garners national news
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Archive: UCSF Seeks New Vice Chancellor of Diversity, Outreach
UCSF is looking for an internal candidate – either a member of the faculty or staff – to become the University’s first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach.
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Archive: UCSF health study on Gulf oil spill hits news nationwide
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Archive: Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Provides Update on Progress, Challenges
In his first email address to the UCSF community since assuming the role as executive vice chancellor and provost, Jeffrey Bluestone says he is “proud and humbled by the exceptional work done by our faculty and staff in living up to UCSF’s vision.”
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Archive: UCSF obesity study receives widespread media coverage
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Archive: UCSF economist quoted in AP story on global cancer costs
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Archive: UCSF & Kenya Medical Research Institute funded to expand HIV care & support
A joint project of UCSF and the Kenya Medical Research Institute has received $7 million—the first award of a five year grant that will total about $35 million—to expand its care and support of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Kenya.
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Archive: Irby to Step Down as Vice Dean for Medical Education
David Irby will step down as vice dean for education in the UCSF School of Medicine next July and a national search will begin soon to find his successor, according to Dean Sam Hawgood.
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Archive: Accolades Mount for Esteemed UCSF Human Geneticist Charles Epstein
As a leader at UCSF and in the human genetics medical research community nationally and internationally, Charles J. Epstein, MD, has helped guide human genetics into the molecular age and into the spotlight of modern medicine.
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Archive: Physicians call for more flexible end-of-life planning
Specialists in geriatric medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System call the traditional approach of advance care planning “fundamentally flawed,” and propose a new paradigm.
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Archive: Obesity rates decline for many adolescents but disparities worsen
Obesity rates have started to decline and level off for many adolescents, but continue to increase for certain racial and ethnic minorities, according to a new UCSF-led study.
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Archive: Blood Stem Cell, Leukemia Link Illuminated in UCSF-Led Study
A UCSF-led team has discovered at least one key reason why blood stem cells are susceptible to developing the genetic mutations that can lead to adult leukemia.
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Archive: Health impact of Gulf Coast oil spill hazardous but improving
The oil spill along the United States Gulf Coast poses health risks to volunteers, fishermen, clean-up workers and members of coastal communities, according to a new commentary by UCSF researchers who spent time in the region and are among the first to look into health problems caused by the oil spill. The good news, the authors say, is that one of the risk factors, coastal air quality, is improving now that the oil leak has been stopped.
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Archive: UC Appoints Associate Vice Provost for UC Education Abroad Program
Jean-Xavier Guinard, previously a professor at UC Davis, has been named associate vice provost and executive director of the UC Education Abroad Program.