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Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts <i>NOVA scienceNOW</i>, a fast-paced and provocative science newsmagazine bringing viewers an array of intriguing reports from the frontlines of scientific research and discovery.
UCSF is observing January as National Mentoring Month in part by highlighting mentors and mentees who have worked together to achieve career goals.
In a surprise finding, scientists have discovered that histamine, the inflammatory compound released during allergic reactions that causes runny nose, watery eyes, and wheezing, can be produced in large amounts in the lung by neutrophils, the white blood cells that are the major component of pus.
UCSF internal medicine resident Rupa Marya will perform with her band, the April Fishes, on January 13 in San Francisco.
As California's governor and lawmakers prepare to hammer out a plan for universal health insurance coverage, health economics expert Jack Rowe, MD, will offer a broader perspective on America's health care crisis when he delivers the second UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture at noon on Thursday, Jan. 11.
Gail Schechter, a research scientist who received her PhD degree in psychology from UCSF, is now director of the Center for BioEntrepreneurship.
Nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Service and the Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Management are due on February 2.
Calling aging a disease is old hat. What matters, says Cynthia Kenyon, is healthy lifespan...
Advances in medical technology are a main factor driving the trend of increasing health care costs, and industry stakeholders agree that improved evaluation methods are needed ...
A simple blood test for the protein NT-proBNP accurately predicts the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and death in patients with known cardiovascular disease, according to a study led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
In 1902, smallpox and influenza were among the contagious diseases threatening New York City schoolchildren. To help treat and prevent these diseases, the district hired a nurse named Lina Rogers. In just her first month of service, Rogers worked with hundreds of students and their families, both at school and in students' homes. When the Board of Health hired a dozen additional nurses to help with the workload, school nursing was born.
UCSF will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events beginning January 11.
Over the holiday period, the Parnassus Heights campus experienced several burglaries of a similar nature that impacted offices in the Medical Sciences Building and the School of Nursing.
Please join us in congratulating Sir Richard Feachem who has been honored by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire on the New Year Honours List for 2007 for his pre-eminent contributions to global health.
Top Malaysian bioscience graduate students and postdoctoral scientists will have a chance to study in the Bay Area as part of a new program aimed at boosting Asia's ability to find treatments for some of the world's most devastating diseases.
Vindicated and ever-vital, Cynthia Kenyon continues to explore and expose the mysteries of aging...
Scientists have shown in the past that psychological stress is linked to weight gain and fat storage -- especially added fat around the waistline, where it raises the risk of heart disease.
Jack Rowe, MD, an expert on health care economics and healthy aging, will speak at UCSF on Thursday, Jan. 11, as the second speaker in the UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series.
On the pilot episode of the PBS series <i>WIRED SCIENCE</i> airing Wednesday, January 3, 2007, host Brian Unger interviews leading stem cell researcher Renee Reijo Pera, PhD, co-director of the UCSF Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Center and associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences.
For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, the honor of having the first baby of the new year born in San Francisco has gone to a mother who delivered at UCSF Children's Hospital. Six-pound, 13-ounce Elijah Rodolfo Bonilla-Hill came into the world at 2:13 a.m. on New Year's Day. Mother and child are doing well.
NPR's Farai Chideya interviews Andre Campbell, MD, a trauma surgeon and chief of the medical staff at San Francisco General Hospital, and professor of surgery at UCSF, about his daily work in SFGH's Emergency Department. Campbell recently was featured in the first of a four-part <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> series on SFGH.
UCSF's Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, and Roger Nicoll, MD, have each received a 2006 Peter Gruber Prize, awarded annually to individuals in various disciplines who have made discoveries and contributions that effect fundamental shifts in human knowledge and culture.
Sales of chewing tobacco are on the rise, and some public health officials are actually advocating it as an alternative to smoking—or at least as a tool to use while quitting smoking. Stanton Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF, and a leading anti-smoking crusader, agrees that smokeless tobacco isn't as deadly as cigarettes, but he doesn't think it's safe to promote any kind of tobacco use.
An experimental HIV drug, MK-0158, soon will become available to a select group of patients.
Scientists are discovering that subtle differences in our genes can affect the way we respond to drugs. Using genetic information to tailor disease prevention and treatment based on people's race and ethnicity is all part of the science of "genomics."