Archive: Stem Cell Enthusiasts Tour New Parnassus Heights Research Building
UCSF offered a peek of the $123-million stem cell research facility – the first research building being constructed on the Parnassus campus in 40 years.
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Archive: Cocoa flavanols improve vascular and blood pressure measures for coronary artery disease patients
A new study by UCSF cardiologists and researchers found that high concentrations of cocoa flavanols decrease blood pressure, improve the health of blood vessels and increase the number of circulating angiogenic cells in patients with heart disease. The findings indicate that foods rich in flavanols – such as cocoa products, tea, wine, and various fruits and vegetables – have a cardio-protective benefit for heart disease patients.
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Archive: Colleagues Fondly Remember Andrew Boettcher
Friends and colleagues are fondly remembering Andrew Boettcher, a longtime UCSF Public Affairs designer who died recently in his San Francisco home.
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Archive: Deficit in body fat from early HIV drugs persists years later
HIV-infected patients who lost subcutaneous fat as a result of taking first-generation antiretroviral drugs still had strikingly less body fat than non-infected controls five years after switching to newer medications, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Antibiotic Use Boosts Risk of Infection with Clostridium Bacteria
Antibiotic-resistant Staph infection is not the only emerging bacterial threat. Now a different bug -- Clostridium difficile -- is gaining strength.
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Archive: King Named Secretary-Treasurer of American Board of Internal Medicine
Talmadge King, Jr., chair of the Department of Medicine, has been named secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s board of directors.
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Archive: Senior Vice Chancellor Issues Update on Budget, "Operational Excellence" Initiatives
John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, today issued an update on the budget for fiscal year 2010-2011 and initiatives to achieve “Operational Excellence.”
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Archive: Yamamoto Presents "New Biology" Report to Congressional Committee
UCSF's Keith Yamamoto, who has been a national advocate for innovative scientific research and training, on Tuesday presented plans for a bold, new biology initiative to produce food and biofuels sustainably, monitor and restore ecosystems, and improve human health.
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, comments on tobacco holdings
Let there be no question: I am strongly anti-tobacco. Over the years, my husband and I have worked with a financial adviser to manage our investment portfolio. Our practice has been to advise him on our broad financial strategy, but we did not get involved in individual stock selections. This led to the investment in the stock of a tobacco company, which conflicts with our values.
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Archive: UCSF Program Cultivates Sense of Community Engagement
Playing soccer with kids in the Western Addition is one of the ways Chief Pediatric Resident Sonny Tat works to improve public health as part of the University Community Partnership program.
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Archive: SFFD to Offer Neighborhood Emergency Response Training at UCSF
Faculty, staff, students and trainees can sign up to be trained as citizen first responders in the Neighborhood Emergency Response Training session at UCSF Mission Bay in July.
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Archive: What Makes Us Human? Studies of Chimp and Human DNA May Tell Us
In constructing an evolutionary tree of life, scientists have granted themselves and the rest of us humans a genus, <em>Homo</em>, all to ourselves. But there’s no getting around the fact that we’re in the same family with chimpanzees and other primates.
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Archive: Gestational diabetes linked to serotonin and dietary protein
The cause of diabetes during pregnancy is directly controlled by serotonin, a chemical produced by the body and normally known as a neurotransmitter, and is influenced by the amount of protein in the mother’s diet early in pregnancy, according to new findings of an international team led by researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor to Present Top Fundraising AIDS Walk Team with Trophy
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann will present a new trophy to the team that raises the most money per person in AIDS Walk San Francisco, which takes place on July 18.
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Archive: Re-Released Book Cites Historical Cases Leading to Today's Toxic Environment
The oil spill crisis in the Gulf Coast underscores the importance of implementing effective regulation through a proactive strategy to protect public health, according to UCSF’s Paul Blanc, the author of a re-released book.
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Archive: UCSF Offers Summer Session of Mini Medical School for Public
The public is welcome to attend UCSF Mini Medical School’s summer program, which addresses several hot topics in stem cell research that foreshadow the future of modern medicine as well as advances in primary care.
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Archive: Website Seeks Ideas for New UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Members of the community can offer ideas ranging from how to improve patient care to how to incorporate green practices through a new website by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
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Archive: NYT reports on new study linking mining with African TB epidemic
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Archive: Marc Benioff Announces $100 Million Gift to Build New Children's Hospital at Mission Bay
Marc Benioff explained his excitement about building a new children’s hospital at Mission Bay and encouraged others to get involved in the project on June 22, when he officially announced his gift of $100 million to UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Children's Hospital receives $100 million gift to build new hospital
UCSF Children's Hospital has received a $100 million gift to help fund the construction of its new home at the UCSF Mission Bay campus near downtown San Francisco. The gift is a private donation from San Francisco residents Lynne and Marc Benioff, and is both the largest gift the donors have ever made and the largest gift ever granted specifically to the UCSF Children's Hospital.
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Archive: Camp Entrepreneur Offers Aspiring Researchers Business Advice
A four-week course to assist aspiring entrepreneurs with the business side of research discovery ends tonight with a lecture from UCSF alum and vice president of Genentech Partnering James Sabry.
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Archive: UCSF study links cigarettes to Alzheimer's, in Huffington Post
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Archive: Yamanaka of Gladstone & UCSF wins Kyoto Prize
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Earns Perfect Healthcare Equality Index Score for Fourth Consecutive Year
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Archive: UCSF Recognizes High-Quality Care with Helen Diller Family Award
UCSF's GYN Surgical Oncology practice recently received an award for outstanding achievements in the advancement of the care of cancer patients.
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Archive: Two from UCSF School of Nursing Receive Fulbright Awards
Julene Johnson is headed for Finland and Kari Radoff is going to Nicaragua as part of the J. William Fulbright Program.
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Archive: Veterans Health Research Institute Presents Brain at War Conference Today
The Veterans Health Research Institute or NCIRE will present “The Brain at War: Neurocognitive Consequences of Combat” today (June 17).
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Archive: UCSF Receives $100 Million Gift from Benioffs for Children's Hospital
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann and Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, announced today that Marc and Lynne Benioff have “made an extraordinary $100 million gift to UCSF Children’s Hospital.”
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Archive: McKerrow's Parasitic Disease Research Garners Mendel Medal
James McKerrow, leader of the Sandler Center for Drug Discovery at UCSF, was honored with the 2009 Mendel Medal for his work identifying the vulnerabilities of disease-causing parasites and for devising new strategies to fight them.
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Archive: Preventing overtreatment: AP features UCSF cancer experts