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Archive: Topp Tapped to Chair Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science
Kimberly S. Topp has been named the chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science in the UCSF School of Medicine.
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Archive: UCSF Welcomes New Residents and Clinical Fellows
More than 400 new additions to UCSF’s clinical and research enterprise arrived on campus June 30 to start the next phase of their medical careers.
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Archive: UCSF's Goosby Discusses Priorities and Challenges as New Global AIDS Chief
Eric Goosby, the new US Global AIDS coordinator, says he will work to promote education and prevention, build international partnerships and encourage country-driven efforts to fight the AIDS epidemic.
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Archive: Stem cells' "suspended" state preserved by key step, scientists report
Scientists have identified a gene that is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their all-purpose, pluripotent state. Exploiting the finding may lead to a greater understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states and provide a strategy to efficientlyreprogram mature cells back into the pluripotent state, an elusive step in stem cell research but one crucial to a range of potential clinical treatments.
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Archive: Study finds job programs protect public health during periods of recession
A rapid rise in unemployment can be linked to an increase in suicides, homicides, and alcohol abuse, but job programs can successfully mitigate these rates, according to a new study reported in the “Lancet” medical journal.
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Archive: California Poison Control System Faces Layoffs, Closure
The California Poison Control System faces elimination due to state budget cuts.
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Archive: Campus Gets Long-Awaited Email Upgrades
UCSF continues to invest in information technology services, including improved email service thanks to the recent upgrade of the campus exchange email system.
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Archive: UCSF Graduates First Class from Leadership Program
UCSF recently graduated 108 managers who had been trained in a leadership development program that is now accepting nominations for the class of 2010.
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Archive: UCSF to Open Travel Medicine and Immunization Clinic
Faculty and staff who are planning a trip abroad should make an appointment with the new UCSF Travel Medicine and Immunization Clinic first.
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Archive: Brain Cancer Linked to Inherited Genetic Risk
UCSF researchers have discovered inherited DNA that increases risk for the most deadly brain cancers.
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Archive: San Francisco Magazine Recognizes Mount Sutro Stewards
The Mount Sutro Stewards, who will next volunteer on the Fourth of July, are being recognized for their work to restore the 61-acre wilderness area above the Parnassus campus.
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Archive: Even in Weak Economy, Business Is Booming at UCSF Biotech Incubator
The QB3 Garage continues to see strong demand from local biotech startups, including Omniox Inc., a company whose innovative oxygen-delivery technology may someday help fight cancer and assist in trauma care.
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Archive: Study identifies how tamoxifen stimulates uterine cell growth & cancer
UCSF researchers have identified a new “feed-forward” pathway linking estrogen receptors in the membrane of the uterus to a process that increases local estrogen levels and promotes cell growth.
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Archive: Perfect pitch study offers window into influences of nature and nurture
Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there’s new evidence that genes may influence one’s ability to get there, as well.
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Archive: Managed Healthcare Executive magazine features School of Nursing expert on asthma management
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Archive: UC President Receives Comments Over Pay Cuts, Furloughs
UC President Mark Yudof says he appreciates the thousands of comments and concerns that he is receiving from UC employees and promises to share his recommendation on how to cope with the 20 percent cut in state funding to the UC Regents before they meet July 14-16 at UCSF Mission Bay.
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Archive: UCSF Employees Should Review State Withholding Allowances Following Tax Increase
UCSF employees should review their state personal income tax allowances to avoid owing additional taxes at the end of the year.
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Archive: MS study offers theory for why repair of brain's wiring fails
Scientists have uncovered new evidence suggesting that damage to nerve cells in people with multiple sclerosis accumulates because the body’s natural mechanism for repair of the nerve coating called “myelin” stalls out.
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Archive: UCSF Clinical Pharmacy Study Is Part of FDA Acetaminophen Deliberations
Acetaminophen overdoses are still climbing. Overdoses may lead to liver failure and death. A new UCSF study informs FDA panel deliberations.
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Archive: Family Circle features UCSF incontinence expert
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Archive: GI Oncology Group Honored for Outstanding Patient Care
The GI Oncology Group team received the newly established Helen Diller Family Quality Award for providing exceptional care and producing above-average survival rates in colon cancer patients.
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Archive: Making Intelligent Therapeutics
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty recently explained how their research is contributing to the development of better drug treatments.
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Archive: UCSF Seeks Participants for San Francisco AIDS Walk
The time is now to register to join a UCSF team, make a donation or volunteer in the AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 19.
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Archive: UCSF Offers Voluntary Separation Program
Employees can help UCSF reduce staffing costs during the current, difficult budget climate by voluntarily separating from employment with a severance payment based on classification and length of UC service.
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Archive: Osher Center expert provides treatment advice in Prevention magazine
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Archive: UC President Issues Video Letter to Faculty, Staff
UC President Mark Yudof welcomes feedback on tough decisions facing UC, including cutting salaries and requiring furloughs.
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Archive: New biomarker method could increase the number of diagnostic tests for cancer
A team of researchers, including several from UCSF, has demonstrated that a new method for detecting and quantifying protein biomarkers in body fluids may ultimately make it possible to screen multiple biomarkers in hundreds of patient samples, thus ensuring that only the strongest biomarker candidates will advance down the development pipeline. The researchers have developed a method to increase accuracy in detecting real cancer biomarkers that is highly reproducible across laboratories and a variety of instruments so that cancer can be detected in its earliest stages.
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Archive: Early heart attack therapy with bone marrow extract improves cardiac function
A UCSF study for the treatment of heart failure after heart attack found that the extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac function, decreasing the formation of scar tissue and improving cardiac pumping capacity after heart attack.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Issues Campuswide H1N1 Flu Update
UCSF Medical Center Chief Medical Officer Josh Adler today issued an email message to the campus community, explaining how UCSF Medical Center is responding to H1N1 influenza.