University of California San Francisco
A new study has found that resident physicians at teaching hospitals underuse interpreter services — often relying on hand gestures or a limited number of words in the patient’s native language.
Lisa Bero, a leader in the study of conflicts of interest in biomedical research, will be the featured speaker at the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club of California on Feb. 4.
UCSF is hosting a workshop geared toward women to learn how to apply for and get appointed to a board or commission. The workshop is free and open to the public.
The self-perceptions and life experiences of young homeless people vary significantly by race, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. The findings underscore the need for a more tailored approach to youth homelessness intervention and prevention programs.
Behavioral weight-loss programs can be an effective way to reduce urinary incontinence in women who are overweight or obese, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
The UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine is sponsoring a symposium on February 5 to address the impact of health reform and related issues in the field.
In African American women with breast cancer, high blood pressure lessens the chances of survival compared with white women, a new UCSF study finds.
UCSF’s Victor I. Reus, who is considered an expert in training the next generation of mental health professionals, will receive a national award in October.
Two HIV prevention interventions developed by UCSF researchers have been selected as additions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions.
The deadline to apply for fall 2009 entry into the Master’s Program in Global Health Sciences is Jan. 30.
Scientists have discovered a novel way by which a much-studied cancer-promoting gene accelerates the disease. The finding suggests a new strategy to halt cancer’s progress.
A partnership between UCSF and a San Francisco high school earned the team certificates of honor from the city Board of Supervisors and the California Legislature.
Children with newly diagnosed cases of inflammatory bowel disease have higher concentrations of folate in their blood than individuals without IBD, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The findings bring into question the previously held theory that patients with IBD are prone to folate – also known as folic acid – deficiency.
Members of the community can nominate a colleague for the Milton and Helen Pearl Award for Outstanding Service.
Faculty are invited to submit an application for the next round of funding by March 2 in the Resource Allocation Program.
Scientists at UCSF have discovered an abnormality in a patient’s immune system that may lead to safer therapies for autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and colitis, as well as potential new ways to treat transplant rejection.
With support from the Fogarty International Center, the UCSF School of Nursing is examining the impact of stigma as it relates to nurses who care for HIV patients in developing countries.
The rate of sudden deaths increased six-fold in the first year that California law enforcement agencies deployed the use of stun guns, according to a UCSF study. Findings also showed a two-fold increase in the rate of firearm-related deaths during the same time period.
MicroRNA inhibitors of genes reveal their targets in a UCSF Kaposi’s sarcoma study. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Don Ganem leads efforts to find guiding principles that will point to the targets of microRNA in health and disease.
Drug side effects have been sidelining already-approved drugs. New inventions by Laurence Tecott, MD, PhD, and Evan Goulding, MD, PhD, allow monitoring of complex mouse behaviors and may yield early warnings of possible pharmaceutical side effects. Big Pharma and biotech drug development should benefit as a result.
A 3-year-old who lost his hearing in a US missile attack receives a cochlear implant at UCSF after a massive fundraising effort and outpouring of support his father calls “beyond my imagination.”
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy will undergo surgery at UCSF Medical Center today (Friday, January 16), to restore his hearing, which was destroyed in June 2007 when a U.S. explosive device hit his neighbor’s house.
Faculty who are going to the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20 are feeling optimistic about the future.
The pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis employed “the systematic use of deception and misinformation” in order to manipulate physicians into prescribing the drug gabapentin for so-called off-label uses, write two San Francisco VA Medical Center physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A team of UCSF researchers has discovered a protein duo that regulates the formation of endothelial cells – a breakthrough that has significant scientific and therapeutic implications.