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Nursing School Alumna Supports Field Through New Endowed Chair
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Medical Center CEO Talks About New Strategy for 2009
Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, says he is optimistic that even in this difficult economic environment, “we can achieve our financial goal for this fiscal year.”
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"AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories From India" -- book reading at UCSF
Reading by authors from recently published book, “AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India,” followed by discussion and reception.
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Search for Genetic Clues to Breast Cancer in Hispanic Women
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New UCSF Radio Program Focuses on Women's Health
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Study offers insights about development of the human immune system
A UCSF study has found that a surprisingly high number of maternal cells enters the fetus during pregnancy, prompting the generation of special immune cells in the fetus that suppress a response against the mother.
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UCSF's Aging Brain Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
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Howard Hughes Awardees Will Use UCSF Cell Discovery to Target Cancer
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Expensive CT Scans: Where's the Patient Benefit?
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Heart-Healthy Chocolate? How Sweet It Is!
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ABC7 News Reports QB3 Taking High-Tech Biosciences to Next Level
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Heart Attacks and Women: Disease Presents Differently by Gender
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UCSF Spine Center Tackles Most Complex Spine Surgeries on West Coast
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Course Offers Lessons in Biotech Business Savvy
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Expensive CT Scans: Where's the Patient Benefit?
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New Online Course Offers Safety Tips for Active Shooter Scenario
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Heart Attacks and Women: Disease Presents Differently by Gender
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UCSF Medical Center leads nation in ER heart attack care
UCSF Medical Center ranks No. 1 nationwide for the speed with which heart attack patients are treated using balloon angioplasty, according to the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR). Cardiac balloon angioplasty and stenting are the procedures used to open narrowed or blocked blood vessels and must be performed quickly after a heart attack to minimize heart muscle loss.
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Faculty React to Attacks in Mumbai
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UCSF's Aging Brain Research Featured in Wall Street Journal
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CDC Director to Talk at UCSF About Rescuing Health, Economy
Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will talk about health care and the economic crisis when she visits UCSF on December 9.
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Cell Death and Diabetes: A Conversation with Feroz Papa
In recent years, researchers have learned that beta cells of the pancreas die in patients with type 2 diabetes...
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UCSF Helps Local Kids Run Toward a Healthy Future
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Overweight women at increased risk of advanced breast cancer
A nationwide study of over 280,000 women showed that postmenopausal women who are overweight or obese have advanced breast cancer at significantly higher rates than women of normal weight or less than normal weight.
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Flores Wins Maybelline New York Beauty of Education Award
Katherine Flores will be honored at a gala awards dinner in New York City on Dec. 4 at the New York Public Library.
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Poor health habits put depressed heart patients at greater risk
Patients with heart disease who are depressed are more likely to smoke, not exercise and not take heart medications correctly than those who are not depressed, thereby putting themselves at greater risk for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, and death, according to a five-year study of over one thousand heart patients led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Macy's Tree Lighting Event to Benefit UCSF Children's Hospital
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Cells' Protein-Folding 'ER' May Play a Role in Type 2 Diabetes
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Tool to Measure ER Stress in Cells Promises Diabetes Insight