Archive: Nursing Alum Shares Tales of Volunteer Work in Rural Nepal
From deadly snake bites to babies born in animal sheds, Joe Niemczura recounts vivid and often-troubling experiences as a volunteer instructor and nurse in Nepal.
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Archive: UCSF to Offer H1N1 Vaccine for All Employees, Students
Employees and students with a UCSF identification badge may receive H1N1 vaccines at UCSF beginning January 11.
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Archive: Periodic paralysis study reveals gene causing disorder
Scientists have identified a gene underlying a disease that causes temporary paralysis of skeletal muscle. The finding, they say, illustrates how investigations of rare genetic diseases can drive insights into more common ones.
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Archive: QB3 Team to Apply for FDA Approval of New Therapeutic Drug for Chagas Disease
QB3 researchers at the UCSF Sandler Center for Basic Research in Parasitic Diseases are preparing to apply for FDA approval to test an Investigational New Drug (IND) for Chagas disease, in what could become the first drug to emerge from UCSF without an industry partner.
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Archive: Proposed constitutional Amendment Would Guarantee Funds for UC
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Archive: UCSF dental expert quoted on teeth grinding
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Archive: New Patient Health Library Seeks to Inform and Empower
The UCSF Patient Health Library at Mount Zion offers a wealth of information on medical conditions and treatments, as well as on-site guidance from a trained medical librarian.
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Archive: Chancellor Names Senior Vice Chancellor, Finance and Administration, Pending Approval by Regents
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, today announced the appointment of John Plotts for the position of senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration subject to approval by the Regents.
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Archive: SF Business Times reports launch of UCSF, Hill Physicians partnership
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Archive: UCSF Boosts Efforts to Support Students in Multiple Ways
UCSF is offering students increased support – financial, educational and social – to help maintain its competitiveness as an accredited health sciences university.
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Archive: Expert to Talk about Global Tuberculosis Control Today
UCSF’s Philip Hopewell, an international expert on tuberculosis control, will talk about progress and problems combating TB today on the Parnassus campus.
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Archive: Team approach to diabetes care improves quality, cost-effectiveness
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Archive: UC Cites Achievements During Challenging Year
The University of California will remember 2009 as a challenging year that also brought some good news, including the arrival of UCSF's new chancellor and the naming of UCSF's fourth Nobel laureate. <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22585">Read the UC story</a>.
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Archive: Mohana Amirtharajah joins Orthopaedic Surgery Department
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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Archive: UCSF School of Nursing's Doctoral Program in Sociology Celebrates 40 Years
A tiny department on the UCSF School of Nursing has yielded big developments, including supplying much of the ammunition informing the most significant public discussions about health and health care over the past half century.
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Archive: New Center Focuses on Women's Health and Empowerment on Global Scale
UCSF’s Phil Darney is co-leading a new Center of Expertise on Women’s Health and Empowerment that will tackle global health issues such as violence against women and reproductive health and rights.
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Archive: Master's Student Chosen for Prestigious Policy Fellowship
UCSF School of Nursing master’s student Alfredo Mireles was selected for a prestigious, 11-month fellowship with the California state government.
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Archive: Nurse Practitioners, Midwives Play Integral Roles in Primary Care
Health care reformers know there won’t be enough primary care physicians to meet the need. Nurse practitioners and midwives are ready, willing and able to fill the gap.
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Archive: UCSF Nursing Dean Discusses Cardiac Care Study
Kathleen Dracup, dean of the UCSF School of Nursing, talks about her study which found a gap between patient knowledge and behavior when responding to cardiac symptoms.
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Archive: Commonwealth Club focuses on end-of-life care
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Archive: UCSF/SFGH Project for Diabetes Patients Wins Award for Innovation, Quality
The Center for Vulnerable Populations has won an award for an automated, multilingual phone tool that improves health outcomes among patients with type 2 diabetes.
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Archive: New Research on CT Radiation Exposures, Risks, Fuels Growing Concern
The use of computed tomography (CT) scans in medicine to diagnose disease, and in many cases save lives, has exploded in recent decades.
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Archive: UCSF patient safety expert profiled in the New York Times
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Archive: For the Most Painful Headaches, a Simple, Drug-Free Treatment Usually Works
Treatment of excruciatingly painful cluster headaches with pure oxygen often relieves pain within 15 minutes, according to a study led by a UCSF headache expert.
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Archive: National, local news highlight UCSF research on CT scans
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Project on Target for 2014
UCSF officials are confident that UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will open its doors to women, children and cancer patients by late 2014.
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Archive: Smart Business profiles UCSF Medical Center CEO
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Archive: UCSF notifies patients and other individuals of possible unauthorized access to personal information
UCSF has alerted approximately 600 patients/individuals that an external hacker may have obtained temporary access to emails containing their personal information as a result of a phishing scam.
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Archive: Variable doses of radiation raise safety concerns for CT procedures
Radiation doses from common CT procedures vary widely and are higher than generally thought, raising concerns about increased risk for cancer, according to a new study led by UCSF imaging specialists.
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Archive: UCSF study finds routine HIV screening in community health centers boosts HIV testing
UCSF researchers have that found routinely offering rapid HIV tests to patients in community health centers can significantly increase the number of patients screened for HIV.