Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Nets $1 Million to SFGH
An Avon Foundation grant to San Francisco General Hospital will enable its breast cancer center to provide genetic screening to uninsured women – the first program of its kind in the country.
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UCSF genetics pioneer Y.W. Kan earns Lifetime Achievement Award
Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.
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UC Regents OK Study to Examine Impact of Prop. 209
The University of California will begin a comprehensive study to examine the impact of the 1996 voter-approved Proposition 209 on the diversity of the student body.
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Scientific Leaders on Neuron Regulation, Development Honored
Lily Y. Jan, PhD, and Yuh Nung Jan, PhD, both UCSF professors of physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, were asked to present Presidential Award Lectures at the international symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, held this past week in San Francisco.
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Viral Genetic Differences are Possible Key to HIV Dementia
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.
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UCSF's Stem Cell Efforts Highlighted in The New York Times, Other Media
Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, spoke to the national and local press about a bill approved by the Senate Tuesday that would have expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
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Campus to Make Changes to Shuttle Service
UCSF is making some changes to the newly revised shuttle service beginning on Monday, July 24.
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Tune in...
KQED (88.5) radio's live call-in program <i>Forum</i> with Michael Krasny is scheduled to take up the issue of the Senate human embryonic stem cell bill, vetoed by President Bush, at 9:00 am Thursday, July 20 (pending last-minute changes).
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Chronic Middle Ear Infections
The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.
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International Group Tackles Sjogren's Syndrome
The UCSF-led Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) held an investigators' meeting in Washington, DC, recently.
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UCSF Faculty Seek Greater Support for Biomedical Research
More than 400 faculty members at UCSF are asking for more financial support for the National Institutes of Health.
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Family In Race For Cure of Hurler's Syndrome
An East Bay family is turning its personal tragedy into a campaign to save others from the same fate.
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Campus Develops Strategic Plan to Guide its Future
UCSF is tapping the wealth of knowledge, experience, and perspective of the UCSF community to develop a comprehensive strategic plan.
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The Premature Birth Problem
<i>Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention</i>, a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, shows that 12.5 percent of births in the United States in 2004 were preterm, a 30 percent increase over the 1981 rate.
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UCSF Blogs: Our Mann in Munich
UCSF director of university publications Jeff Miller is attending the EuroScience Open Forum. From Munich, Miller blogs his experiences and observations.
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Academic Senate Names Distinguished Clinical Research Lecturer
Critical care expert Michael Matthay has been selected to deliver the Sixth Annual Distinguished Clinical Research Lectureship on October 17.
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Improving Nutrition Begins With Small Steps
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny discussed supermarket grocery pricing, availability, and quality with Toby Morris, a registered dietician at UCSF Medical Center.
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Multiple Sclerosis in Children Is More Common Than Thought
Multiple sclerosis is increasingly being diagnosed in children and teens. Although physicians have long known that kids can come down with the disease, new technology and emerging awareness of the problem have led them to spot the kind of cases that previously had gone undetected until years later.
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UCSF's Kriegstein Weighs In on Reasons to Expand Federal Stem Cell Funding
Five years after President George W. Bush announced limited funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the US Senate takes up a bill today that would significantly expand that funding.
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UCSF Opens Pediatric MS Center
Early this year, the UCSF Medical Center opened a Regional Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Center to address the needs of patients and their families.
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Legacy Foundation Honors UCSF Tobacco Researcher
Ruth Malone, whose research focuses on studies using tobacco industry documents, was honored July 12 by the American Legacy Foundation.
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UCSF AIDS Expert Discusses Once-Daily HIV Pill
David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, discusses Wednesday's federal approval of a single pill, taken once daily, that combines three drugs used to treat HIV.
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UCSF Researchers Report on Trends in Personal Assistance Supply and Demand
H. Stephen Kaye, Susan Chapman, Robert Newcomer and Charlene Harrington used data from two federal surveys of the U.S. population to assess both the size of the workforce providing paid personal assistance services and the relative growth of that workforce compared with the population needing such services.
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Ultra low-dose estrogen shown safe for post-menopausal women
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has shown that extremely low doses of estrogen had no ill effects on the cognitive abilities or general health of older women over the course of two years.
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GCRC Nurse Wins DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses
Jocelia Adams, RN, a nurse who works in the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), has been named this month's winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
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Depression Linked to Risky Teen Sex
A study by UCSF researcher Jocelyn Lehrer, ScD, and others suggests that sexually experienced middle school and high school teenagers with higher levels of depressive symptoms are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors.
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UCSF AIDS Walk Contest Reaches Final Stretch
Cookies, pies and peanut butter chocolate bars will be on sale tomorrow on the Parnassus campus to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Walk.
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Epilepsy Surgery Preserves Tradition, Prevents Seizures
Pediatric Neurosurgeon Victor Perry, MD, director of pediatric epilepsy surgery at UCSF, performs surgery on 15-year-old Sky Titus while perserving the family's Native American traditions.
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Envisioning a Neuro ICU for Preemies at UCSF
Each year in the United States, approximately 80,000 children are born very prematurely.
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Endocrine Society Honors Pediatric Professor
A UCSF professor has received an award for defining the field of molecular steroidogenesis by integrating basic research with clinical observation.