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The UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership will use a newly announced, five-year grant to work with local high schools in improving science education and promoting diversity in the scientific workforce.
Active elderly women scored better on tests of mental function than less active women, according to a new study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, MD, who has led the University of California, San Francisco for the past 10 years, today announced plans to step down from his post, effective June 30, 2009.
A new study looking at unprotected intercourse within gay couples when each partner has established HIV-infection found a correlation between anti-HIV immune response and sexual activity.
Ever think about your pancreas? Matthias Hebrok does.
The deadline for nominations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Award at UCSF has been extended to October 30.
Public health experts will convene for a half-day conference to discuss the two presidential candidates’ vastly different suggestions for health care reform and assess the impact of each.
The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by Carolyn Coker Ross, MD, on the integrative medicine approach to eating disorders.
People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and people whose mental abilities have declined, but don’t have MCI, appear to have similar changes in brain structure and function, according to a study at SF VA Medical Center.
A national research group headed by Michael Weiner, MD, director of the Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been granted a $6.04 million Biomedical Technology Research Centers (BTRC) Award from the National Institutes of Health.
UCSF researchers investigating the appropriate use of procedures to open narrowed coronary arteries -- such as angioplasty and stenting -- found that less than half of Medicare patients had documented noninvasive stress testing prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI, the clinical name for such procedures.
Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.