Children's Hospital Patients Attend One-of-a-Kind Birthday Party
Twelve young UCSF patients were among the players in a life-sized game of Candy Land on Aug. 19, marking 60 years since the game was created by a woman recovering from polio.
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Pioneer Personalizes Breast Cancer Treatment
Laura van ’t Veer, PhD, has changed the way physicians look at breast cancer.
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New York Times Magazine carries essay by UCSF expert on global women's health
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UCSF researchers identify two key pathways in adaptive response
UCSF researchers have identified the two key circuits that control a cell’s ability to adapt to changes in its environment, a finding that could have applications ranging from diabetes and autoimmune research to targeted drug development for complex diseases.
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UCSF Breast Cancer Specialists Lead the Way Translating Research
From leading an initiative to enable physicians and researchers to share treatment plans and track long-term outcomes for women across the state to conducting groundbreaking work in the molecular profiling of cancers to guide treatment decisions, UCSF faculty are at the forefront of the field.
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UCOP Issues List of Group Codes/Fund Ranges Excluded from Furlough Plan
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UCSF Student Receives Scholarship to Conduct AIDS Research in India
For 10 months, Timothy Poore will study HIV/AIDS in India as part of a highly competitive scholarship program promoting global health.
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Regional media cover UCSF participation in world's largest game of Candy Land
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UCSF Resource Allocation Program Offers Fifth Round of Grants
The deadline to apply for the next round of funding through the Resource Allocation Program is September 21.
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UCSF, UC Hastings Experts to Discuss Implementing Tobacco Control Act
UCSF tobacco control and prevention experts will convene with their colleagues at UC Hastings on August 28 to discuss the new tobacco control act.
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CNNHealth quotes UCSF nephrologist in story on Mozart's death
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Dental School Dean to Host Town Hall Meetings on Financial Crisis
Dean John D.B. Featherstone will host two town hall meetings on the ongoing budget challenges this month for UCSF School of Dentistry faculty and staff.
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Family of Child with Rare Tumor Finds Renewed Hope at UCSF
When the standard treatment won’t work, doctors at UCSF take an unconventional approach to combating a 6-year-old’s seizure-causing brain tumor.
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UCSF/Stanford team finds labor induction need not increase cesarean risk
Contrary to a belief widely held by obstetricians, inducing labor need not increase a woman's risk for cesarean section delivery in childbirth, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco and the Stanford University School of Medicine have found.
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UCSF health policy expert addresses questions from SF Chronicle readers
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UCSF Looks to Recruit Volunteers for Care and Shelter Teams
Members of the campus community who would like to learn more about UCSF’s care and shelter team should attend a meeting on August 26.
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Got a Problem? Drop in to Free Clinic
The UCSF Problem Resolution Center is offering free drop-in, problem-solving clinics for those who need help finding a solution.
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Research Breathes Life into New Asthma Clinic at UCSF
Asthma patients are breathing easier thanks to the expert consultation and self-management education services available at a new UCSF clinic that is benefitting from three evidence-based research studies led by clinician-researcher Susan Janson.
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New York Times features UCSF sleep-gene finding
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Program Helps Prepare Local Youth for Careers in Science
UCSF’s High School Summer Internship Program targets teens from underrepresented backgrounds and offers hands-on lab experience, mentoring and college counseling.
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First human gene implicated in regulating length of human sleep
Scientists have discovered the first gene involved in regulating the optimal length of human sleep, offering a window into a key aspect of slumber, an enigmatic phenomenon that is critical to human physical and mental health
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UCSF Director to Teach Course on Women and Leadership
Amy Levine, director of the UCSF Center for Gender Equity, will teach a new course at UC Berkeley Extension to help participants rise to leadership positions.
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UCSF Affiliates with Hill Physicians Medical Group
All doctors in UCSF Medical Group will join Hill Physicians Medical Group in San Francisco, effective Jan. 1, 2010.
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UCSF and Hill Physicians form new health care option for San Francisco
UCSF Medical Group and Hill Physicians Medical Group have formed a new affiliation to provide access to high-quality primary and specialty health services for HMO members whose primary care provider is based in San Francisco. Hill Physicians is the largest independent physician association in Northern California.
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Regional business journals cover new affiliation between UCSF and Hill Physicians
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New Center to Focus on Effects of Stress, Socioeconomic Status on Obesity
UCSF has received a five-year grant to establish a multi-campus center where researchers will study how stress and socioeconomic status influence weight.
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KPIX TV cites UCSF research on H1N1 flu
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Chancellor Taps Hawgood as Medical School Dean, Appointment Pending Regents' Approval
Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann today tapped Sam Hawgood to serve as dean of the top-rated UCSF School of Medicine, an appointment that is subject to Regents’ approval.
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UCSF primary care expert participates in White House health policy roundtable
Kevin Grumbach, MD, chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, participated in a health policy roundtable at the White House on August 10. The forum was chaired by Nancy Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, and addressed primary care and medical home innovations.
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UCSF Offers Programs to Guide Career Success, Satisfaction
Mentoring programs are flourishing across campus to support the recruitment and retention of the highest-quality faculty and staff, increase diversity through outreach to underrepresented minorities and improve career satisfaction and success.