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Comparison study shows U.S. low in primary care physician visits
The average American spends a total of about 30 minutes a year with a primary care physician in a system that is less comprehensive than that of Australia or New Zealand, according to a new study comparing primary care practice in the three countries.
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Centennial Video Celebrates 100 Years of the UCSF School of Nursing
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MRI Is Key to Understanding Cartilage Health
Cartilage injury, repair and regrowth have long been mysterious processes. In part, this is because injured cartilage doesn't act like many other injured tissues; cartilage continues to decline in function well after trauma, and is very slow to heal.
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UCSF's Gaffney to be Grand Marshal in San Francisco Pride Parade
Thanks in part to the tremendous support from the campus community, UCSF's own Stuart Gaffney and his partner, John Lewis, will be the Community Grand Marshals in the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
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UCSF Opens Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center
The treatment of cartilage injuries is one of the most difficult challenges facing orthopaedic surgeons. Clinicians and researchers at UCSF are combining forces to establish a multidisciplinary center to meet this challenge. "The UCSF Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center is unlike any other in the region," says UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Hubert Kim, MD, PhD.
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Mother Mice Are More Attuned to Pup Sounds than Are Other Mice
<em>Christoph Schreiner, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery and a member of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF, is senior author of a study reported in PLoS Biology on the way in which auditory neurons detect and discriminate vocalizations. Robert Liu, PhD, the first author of the study, began the work while a postdoctoral fellow in the Schreiner lab. He is now assistant professor of biology at Emory University.</em>
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New Species of Bacteria Discovered at UCSF
NPR's <em>All Things Considered</em> reports that "[a] new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it <em>Bartonella rochalimae</em>, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist." NPR's Rebecca Roberts speaks with Koelher about the discovery of the bacterium, and why that particular name was selected for it.
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Vet Disability System Needs Overhaul, Report Says
Modern weapons, like IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, have left many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating injuries, while advances in trauma care have ensured their survival and return home to cope with those unique injuries, relying on a VA system that is antiquated and can't support their physical and emotional needs, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.
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UCSF Academic Senate Names 2007-2009 Officers
Longtime faculty member David Gardner, Mount Zion Health Plan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, is the new chair of the Academic Senate at UCSF.
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Simple Test Predicts Six-Year Risk of Dementia
A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person's risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
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Scientists propose the kind of chemistry that led to life
Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?
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Srivastava Recieves Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatrics
Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received the prestigious 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.
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Caring for Women of all Ages with Incontinence
UCSF urogynecologist Sharon Knight, MD, recently returned from Niger, where she treated women with an extreme form of incontinence.
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Stem Cell Research Breakthrough
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New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever
A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation.
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Blackburn Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Princeton
Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises June 5 to seven distinguished individuals for their contributions to humanitarian efforts and athletic achievements, aerospace and public service, science, literature, medicine, history and the arts.
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Boy's Wish Comes True to Help Cancer Patients Like Himself
A longtime UCSF Children's Hospital patient's wish came true to help make taking cancer medicine a little easier to swallow.
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CIRM awards new grant to UCSF human embryonic stem cell program
UCSF has received a $3,872,557 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to expand its nonfederally funded human embryonic stem cell research laboratory and establish a stem cell techniques course for scientists throughout Northern California.
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Long-Anticipated Gene Search Technique Is Now Powerfully Real
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UCSF's Julius Explains to NPR How the Body Detects Cold and Feels Pain
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Baxter Receives Endocrine Society's Highest Award
John Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.
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Three to Receive Awards for GLBT Leadership
Ellen Haller, Cindy Lima and Ammon Corl will receive the Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and/or Transgender Leadership at a ceremony on June 11.
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Bakar Fitness Center Deemed "Best New Gym" by SF Weekly
In <em>SF Weekly</em>'s recent "Best of San Francisco 2007" feature, UCSF Mission Bay's Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center takes the honors for "Best New Gym":
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Drug company funding of drug trials greatly influences outcome
In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried out between 1999 and 2005.
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UCSF Stem Cell Faculty Featured on KQED's QUEST
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UCSF and the Future of Science: A Conversation with Keith Yamamoto
Scientist, research dean, teacher and visionary, Keith Yamamoto has seen it all in his 35 years at UCSF. What does he think about today's UCSF science?
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ZERO TO THREE Elects Lieberman President
Alicia Lieberman, an expert in infant and child development, has been named president of one of the nation's leading resources on the first three years of life.
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Researcher Turns Roadie for AIDS/LifeCycle
UCSF Nancy Hassol will be among those working on the sidelines to make the 2007 AIDS/LifeCycle a success.