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The California Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act of 2004 increased nursing home costs, but failed to improve quality or access to care, according to a UCSF evaluation on the legislation’s impact.
Dean Schillinger, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine for UCSF and practicing primary care physician at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, has been named chief of the California Diabetes Program.
UCSF hosted a three-hour meeting recently to allow community members to hear results of a helicopter noise analysis and offer feedback on the proposed helipad at Mission Bay.
UCSF will recognize four individuals who have made contributions in areas associated with UCSF’s mission at the Founders Day Banquet on April 23.
Do viruses cause cancer? The virochip knows...maybe.
The campus community is invited to learn about important precautions that can be taken to lessen the damage from an earthquake.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has released its own strategic plan that sets the course for “Pressing Ahead in New Directions” through 2012.
Members of the community are invited to offer comments about the UCSF Police Department on April 7 as part of its accreditation review.
Aging expert Amber Hollibaugh will visit UCSF on April 2 to talk about challenges facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) elders.
UCSF's School of Pharmacy ranks first, the School of Nursing second, and the School of Medicine fifth among all graduate schools in their fields in a new survey conducted and published by "U.S. News & World Report."
Nominations are requested for the 2008 Chancellor’s Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and/or Transgender (GLBT) Leadership. The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. today, March 31.
The University of California Board of Regents voted on March 27 to unanimously to appoint Mark G. Yudof, current head of the University of Texas system and a recognized leader in American higher education, the 19th president of the University of California.
The American Pharmacist Association - Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) exemplified UCSF’s vision of serving our community, as stated in the Strategic Plan at a health fair earlier this year.
In the earliest days of brain development, the brain's first cells – neuroepithelial stem cells -- divide continuously, producing a population of cells that eventually evolves into the various cells of the fully formed brain.
In recent years, the UCSF community has put their faces forward to the world in various types of videos on YouTube.
It’s not often that a scientist confesses that he has, well, lost interest in science...
Asian Heart and Vascular Center presents: Women, Heart Disease, and the Importance of Receiving Standard Health Screenings, on Thursday
Volunteers from Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at UCSF Medical Center helped assemble the playground at Balboa Park in one day.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy was well recognized at the annual meeting of the American Pharmacists Association recently.
Rejuvenating the aging brain might be closer than we think...
The campus community is invited to recognize three women who will be awarded the Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women on Monday.
Jonathan Horton, a respected clinical neuro-ophthalmologist and a leading neuroscientist has won the 2008 Alfred W. Bressler Prize in Vision Science, awarded by the Jewish Guild for the Blind.