University of California San Francisco
Health care experts at the University of California, San Francisco highlight in a new report the hidden risks and complexities that compromise patient safety for ambulatory patients with chronic disease.
Regulatory T cells prevent our immune systems from attacking our own tissues. However, these cells can turn against us if they lose a molecule called FoxP3.
Chancellor Mike Bishop testified before the UC Board of Regents on July 15 on the impact of the current budget situation at UCSF.
June Chan, who specializes in the study of nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer, has been named the Steven and Christine-Burd Safeway Endowed Chair.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote next Tuesday on UCSF’s proposal for a rooftop helipad so that helicopters can quickly transport critically ill patients to UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has launched a Medication Management Service in Fresno to address the urgent need among California Central Valley residents and their health care providers for assistance in managing their prescriptions.
Ophir Klein, an assistant professor of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics in the UCSF School of Dentistry, has been named director of the UCSF Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology.
UCSF is accepting abstracts focusing on health disparities research that could be selected for presentation at the health disparities research symposium slated for October 23.
Members of the campus community joined with 25,000 other people to raise more than $3.5 million in the 23rd annual San Francisco AIDS Walk on Sunday.
Short inhibitory RNAs, or siRNAs, can be made to inactivate almost any gene. This may allow even modest-sized university labs to develop new drugs.
Dental public health expert Jane Weintraub will receive the Faculty Research Award at the School of Dentistry’s annual Research and Clinical Excellence Day on Oct. 8.
Members of the campus community should register their private contact information to get timely warnings about emergencies, since the campus telephone system will likely be overloaded or could be damaged during a crisis, UCSF police say.
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals and is the best in the Bay Area, according to the new 2009-10 America’s Best Hospitals survey conducted by <i>U.S. News & World Report</i>.
UC Regents on Thursday declared “an extreme financial emergency for UC” and approved the proposal for furloughs and pay cuts for 108,000 employees.
Among 289,328 veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan who used the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system for the first time between April 1, 2002 and April 1, 2008, 37 percent received a diagnosis of a mental health problem, according to a study of national VA data conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
The decoding of a parasite genome is helping researchers identify the molecular targets for new drugs in the battle against schistosomiasis.
Two UCSF research papers this week are marking major breakthroughs in the effort to tackle schistosomiasis (bilharzia), a tropical disease that infects more than 200 million people worldwide and causes long-term debilitating illness and occasional paralysis or death.
The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has joined with the City of San Francisco and FibroGen Inc to launch the QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network, to spur growth in the bioscience industry.
UC Regents are expected to vote on a plan to cut costs through salary reductions and furloughs for some employees at a meeting tomorrow at UCSF Mission Bay.
Supported by a new grant, sports injury specialist Brian Feeley will evaluate three innovative ACL reconstruction techniques, with the goal of improving surgical outcomes for pediatric patients.