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    Surgery on the Smallest Patients

    Pediatric surgeon Hanmin Lee, MD, of the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, operated on newborn Arissa Mangewala to correct a birth defect where her intestines protruded outside her body. Arissa just celebrated her first birthday, and her parents feel blessed she has a healthy future ahead of her.

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    San Francisco Chronicle Explores "The Other Dementia"

    <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> writer Katherine Nichols' interest in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a degenerative brain disease, stems from her experience with a loved one who suffers from the disease.

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    HHMI News: New Functional Atlas Gives the 411 on Gene Partners

    "Sometimes it helps to have a 'cheat sheet' when you are working on a problem as difficult as deciphering the relationships among hundreds of thousands of genes. At least that's the idea behind a powerful new technique developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers to analyze how genes function together inside cells.

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    The Facts Behind the HPV Vaccine

    The new HPV vaccine is the first one for girls only, and the first immunization recommended for children to protect against a sexually transmitted virus. But the vaccine also has global implications&mdash;cervical cancer is a leading cause of death among women in developing countries, and in some countries, young men are being vaccinated as well.

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    UCSF Scientists Provide Overview on State of Therapeutic Cloning Studies

    Ten years ago Thursday, the public learned that Scottish scientists had cloned a sheep. On NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, UCSF stem cell scientists Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD, and Susan Fisher, PhD, spoke with science reporter Joe Palca about their efforts to study the human embryo in a difficult political climate, and confirm that cloned human embryos will inevitably produce stem cell therapies.

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    UCSF Researchers Seek Volunteers for Study on Connections Between Stress and Sleep

    A study underway at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and UCSF is probing the connection between post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), sleep disturbances and stress hormones. Investigators hope the study will reveal a new potential method for treating PTSD, as well as shed light on the biology of sleep

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    Quest: Genetic Testing Through the Web

    If you could learn your odds of getting cancer, heart disease or diabetes, would you? A new generation of home genetic testing kits allows anybody with a cotton swab and a mailbox to find out. But does convenience come with a privacy risk?

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    How Safe Is Extended Cycle Birth Control?

    Some say extended cycle birth control pills are revolutionizing contraception for many women because it provides fewer periods, which means less pain, PMS and inconvenience, but is it safe? UCSF neuropsychiatrist and female hormone specialist Louann Brizendine, MD, says various forms of extended cycle pills have been used for years.

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    New Ideas, Funding Infused into Search for Blood Markers of Cancer

    Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.

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    HPV Vaccine's Side Effects Come to Light

    KPIX-TV's <i>HealthWatch</i> reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.

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    UCSF Nurses Test Mobile Clinical Assistant Tablet PCs

    Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center will be among the first health care workers to use a tablet-like PC called a mobile clinical assistant (MCA), developed specifically for medical professionals by Intel and Motion Computing. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.

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    Inside New Stem Cell Research

    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended an event Friday where research grants for stem cell research were handed out. KGO-TV reports that now that grants have been given out there is still concern about how long it will take to make the research a reality.

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    Antibody signal may redirect inflammation to fuel cancer

    SAN FRANCISCO -- As evidence mounts that the body's normally protective inflammation response can drive some precancerous tissues to become fully malignant, UCSF scientists report discovering an apparent trigger to this potentially deadly process.

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