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Archive: Obesity to Blame for Climate Change?
With the obesity epidemic now firmly established as the health crisis du jour, I don’t want to be accused of piling on. But I could not let pass this BBC News health story posted in mid-May, which seems to transform an interesting point into mean-spiritedness, not to mention point the finger in the wrong direction.
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Archive: UCSF's Yamamoto Endorses AAAS Report on Threats to Science
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Archive: New Website Chronicles History of UCSF
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Archive: Lang Tapped as Space Research Team Leader
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Archive: German Wins 2008 JDRF Award for Scientific Excellence
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Archive: A Conversation About Aging, Life and Death with Medical Anthropologist Sharon Kaufman
Plan your death like you would your life or risk a living death instead...
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Archive: UCSF Stem Cell and Cancer Symposium
Cells in tumors vary. Scientists wonder whether treatments often fail to kill a persistent type of cancerous cell. The goal now is to understand and target these "cancer stem cells."
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Archive: Firefly project features live reading of letters from patients and their teenage pen pals on June
Members of the public are invited to attend a live dramatic reading of letters written by adults coping with life-threatening illnesses and their healthy teenage pen pals at the annual Firefly Project Adaptation on Wednesday, June 4.
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Archive: UCSF alerts patients about a security breach
The University of California San Francisco is alerting a group of patients that it has discovered a security breach involving a computer that held personal patient information.
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Archive: UCSF's Glantz Slams Hollywood's Lax Enforcement of Tobacco Rating
A gadfly with giant wings, UCSF’s Stan Glantz, PhD, knows how to cause a stir.
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Archive: New findings in breast cancer
Clinical researchers from the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will present new research findings during the 44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place in Chicago May 30-June 3.
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Archive: UCSF Awards Gold-Headed Cane to Advocate for Disabled
Disability rights advocate Nat Gleason, one of UCSF’s 146 new physicians, received the Gold-Headed Cane Award during the School of Medicine commencement ceremonies.v
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Archive: 85 Percent of Americans Are Right About Something
While it’s unlikely to match the size of the audience watching the <cite>American Idol</cite> finale, a presidential debate on science has won the endorsement of 85 percent of Americans, according to a poll commissioned by Research!America and ScienceDebate2008.com. Health care, climate change and energy top the list of topics preferred by poll respondents.
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Archive: Campus to Honor Hopewell for Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring
The UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award will be presented to longtime UCSF Professor Philip Hopewell on May 28.
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Archive: The Future of IVF: A Conversation with IVF Physician and Scientist Paolo Rinaudo
Starting life in a dish requires all the right ingredients...
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Archive: Schillinger Wins Health Literacy in Advancing Patient Safety Award
Dean Schillinger, who has helped improve doctor-patient communication at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital, has been recognized with a national award.
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Archive: UCSF Promotes Wellness with New Initiatives
UCSF today is kicking off a program designed to get faculty, staff, students and trainees on their feet as part of new wellness initiatives.
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Archive: Have Fun with Hidden Worlds
I like stories with plots and science with pictures.
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Archive: Leader in Integrative Health Care Speaks at UCSF
Tieraona Low Dog, MD, offers insight into creating healthy lives for kids.
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Archive: SFVAMC "Brain at War" Symposium Highlights Often Subtle, but Common Traumatic Brain Injury
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Archive: UCSF Presents Designs for Medical Center at Mission Bay
UCSF is closer to realizing its vision to create a new, patient-focused medical center at Mission Bay.
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Archive: The Eyes Have It: A Conversation with Neuroscientist Michael Stryker
We learn to see with our eyes still closed...
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Archive: Landmark California Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage Elicits Strong UCSF Response
When the California Supreme Court overturned the state law banning same-sex marriage, the news spread quickly at UCSF.
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Archive: Cooke to Become Chair-Elect of National Doctors' Organization Board
UCSF internist and medical educator Molly Cooke has been named chair-elect of the American College of Physicians.
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Archive: Childhood obesity is topic for UCSF health policy lecture
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will address the issue of childhood obesity on Wednesday, May 21, as featured speaker in the UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center Receives Highest Rating on National LGBT Healthcare Equality Index
UCSF Medical Center received the highest possible rating on a groundbreaking LGBT Healthcare Equality Index released yesterday.
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Archive: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Names Margolis President
UCSF Professor Todd Margolis is the new president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
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Archive: Our New Index; Liberal Science; Gazzaley in Time
The long-promised index to Science Café topics debuts.
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Archive: UCSF Children's Hospital hosts music
UCSF Children's Hospital will host a Music Day to officially launch the hospital's music program through its Child Life Department.