The Shock Felt 'Round the World
In his 41 years as a professor and electrophysiologist at UCSF, Melvin Scheinman, MD, has shocked thousands of hearts back to health with a procedure called ablation therapy.
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Reshaping Faulty Heartbeats with Cell Therapy
"The injected cells survive and slow down abnormal heart rhythms," says Jeffrey Olgin, MD, the physician and researcher who heads the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service at UCSF.
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New Clues to Heart Transplant Rejection
A protein that contributes to the rejection of transplanted hearts has been identified by a UCSF research team. The finding raises hopes for future developments that may boost transplant success and reduce the side effects of current anti-rejection drugs.
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Slideshow: Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Labs
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Cardiac Electrophysiology at UCSF: Shocking Hearts Back to Health
Words like "pioneering," "original," and "premier," can sometimes overstate a single person's contributions to any field, let alone a medical research specialty, which often moves along lines of collaboration and consensus.
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Biology's Next Big Bang, Part 1 of 2
Systems expert Chao Tang thinks an explosive new chapter in scientific history will soon remodel biology.
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Health & Human rights among women in Afghanistan
A discussion about the health and human rights among women in Afghanistan today, sponsored by the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.
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UCSF Forms OAAIS to Strengthen Academic, Administrative Information Systems
UCSF has formed a new organization to better serve the academic and administrative information technology needs of the University.
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UCSF co-hosts seminar for patients
UCSF Medical Center will team up with the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Stanford University Medical Center to host a free seminar for patients and families living with the lung disorder known as IPF, or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
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UCSF Medical Center on Eve of New Era, CEO Says
CEO Mark Laret says "we are going to need to look deep inside ourselves and our organization to understand what it is going to take to succeed" in a new era of accountability and performance.
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UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention studies marks 20 years
Established in 1986 in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is marking its 20th anniversary and its evolution as a national and global leader in designing and testing HIV prevention interventions.
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UCSF Discovery Is Major Focus of $46 Million Grant to Combat Diarrhea
A $46 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new treatments for severe diarrhea will focus much of its initial support on potential, new drugs discovered at UCSF. Diarrhea is a leading killer of children under the age of 5 worldwide and kills about 5 million people a year.
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Professor Emeritus Pens Book: Surviving a Health Crisis
Professor Emeritus Felix Kolb wrote a book about surviving a health care crisis from his own perspective as a patient and longtime practitioner.
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Children Celebrate Halloween at UCSF Children's Hospital
Fun was the prescription at UCSF Children's Hospital on Tuesday as children went door-to-door – or nursing station-to-nursing station – trick-or-treating for Halloween.
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Forum: Breast Cancer in Young Women
<i>Forum </i>discusses breast cancer in younger women; looks at prevention, diagnosis, and research; and examines some of the less-traditional approaches for treatment.
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Cancer-Preventing Benefits of the Traditional Asian Diet
Studies show that Asian populations have a lower incidence of chronic diseases, such as cancer, than their Western counterparts. One such study, by the National Cancer Institute, found that whites had a 65 percent higher rate of cancer mortality than Asian-Pacific Islanders from the years 1998 to 2002.
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Children's Hospital Nurse Retires After 40 Years at UCSF
Longtime nurse Inez Weiging had only a few parting words upon her retirement: "Please take care my babies. Take care of them and love them."
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Free Flu Shot Clinics
Everyone at UCSF with an identification badge is encouraged to get a free flu shot available at multiple campus locations beginning today.
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UC Police Issue Warning About Convicted Thief
UCSF Police ask anyone who sees a convicted thief and known trespasser on UCSF property to immediately call them.
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UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center: 'Winning the War' on Breast Cancer
Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.
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UCSF 101: Campus at the Crossroads
UCSF Today highlights a few of the people and programs that make this University a place of hope and promise.
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Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: Leading the Health Care Revolution
Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.
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Alma Sisco-Smith: Making UCSF a Better Place
Gender equity, sexual harassment, conflict resolution and ethics. These are a few of the challenging issues that UCSF has tackled over the years as it tries to make the University a better place for faculty, staff and students.
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UCSF Plays Significant Role in Stem Cell Research
With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.
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Bring Back the Ivory Tower, Part 2 of 2
Ken Dill believes biology needs a shot in the arm, a theoretical boost of the first magnitude. And to make that leap scientists need to get off the treadmill, step out of the stream, dream a little again.
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Elizabeth Fair: Making a Greater Impact in Global Health
UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.
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Jim Wells: Helping to Fill the Drug Discovery Pipeline
Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.
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Kavita Mishra: Following her Family's Footsteps into Medicine
Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.
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Giving Sight to the Blind: Children's Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmologist Treats Patients in Vietnam
Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.
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UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor Named One of 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology
A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.