Archive: Pediatrician Describes New Vaccines for Children
It's recommended that girls ages 11 and 12 get the new HPV, or human papillomavirus vaccine, to prevent cervical cancer, precancerous genital lesions and genital warts due to HPV.
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Archive: Bloomingdale's Opening Gala Features Trumpeter Botti,
Feeling guilty over spending on designer shoes or silk ties instead of giving to a worthy cause? Here's a way to combine both activities to benefit children.
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Archive: AAP Recommends Lactose Intolerant Children Consume Some Dairy Products
A new clinical report published in the September issue of <i>Pediatrics</i> recommends that children who are lactose intolerant still should eat some dairy products as an important source of calcium for bone mineral health and of other nutrients that facilitate growth.
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Archive: Minority and low-income students benefit from postbaccalaureate premedical programs
Postbaccalaureate premedical programs are a valuable tool for increasing the number of disadvantaged and underrepresented students who matriculate into medical school, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Archive: Puppy stolen from UCSF Children's Hospital leukemia patient returned
Chemo, the puppy stolen from the family car of 8-year-old UCSF Children's Hospital leukemia patient Kyle Wetle on Saturday, has been recovered, UCSF police officials said Tuesday.
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Archive: UCSF Nurses Aid Victims in Hit-and-Run Rampage
Two UCSF nurses don't consider themselves heroes for helping two people injured in Tuesday's hit-and-run rampage in San Francisco.
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Archive: Video Game Violence Changes Attitudes in the Real World
Violent video games create more permissive attitudes toward risky behaviors – such as using drugs – in youths who play those games, according to a study by UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD.
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Archive: When Video Game Playing Becomes a Problem
With the most recent edition of the hottest sports video game in the nation hitting store shelves in August, UCSF researcher Sonya Brady, PhD, knows that for some gamers, the release of <i>Madden NFL 07</i> for the Sony PlayStation 2 means more than just armchair blocking and rushing.
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Archive: New testing, treatment strategies for dementia presented at International conference
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Archive: UCSF Announces NIH Roadmap K12 Clinical Research Scholars
The campus has named the 2006 scholars for the UCSF Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholars Program.
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Archive: Study shows prenatal diagnostic tests have low risk of miscarriage
Pregnant women who seek prenatal diagnostic testing to identify genetic or chromosomal abnormalities have a lower risk of miscarriage than previously believed, according to a UCSF study.
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Archive: "Sexes in the City: Where Are Women in the Gender Gap Game?"
<i>City Visions</i> host Yumi Wilson interviews Dr. Louann Brizendine, MD, director and founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, about her book <i>The Female Brain</i>, in which Brizendine claims the foundation of the differences between men and women are biological.
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Archive: T-Cell Mystery Shackles Space Travel
Even for outer space fanatics, reality must sometimes strike. From Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica, humans have shown the rather unearthly ability to race across the cosmos with little impact on their health other than the occasional phaser blast. What is an easily overlooked detail for screenwriters, however, can be a painful fact to real astronauts and shuttle pilots.
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Archive: What's in a University Ranking?
The latest rankings rate UCSF ninth among universities worldwide – pretty impressive. Although the rankings – produced by <i>Newsweek International</i> – are among the first-ever international comparisons, there now are a rapidly growing number of groups across the globe that are developing university rankings – and the methods used often are criticized.
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Archive: "Selling Science: How Do We Keep Students Interested?"
On Wednesday, August 23, Rebecca Smith, co-director of the Science and Health Education Partnership — a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District — and Theresa O'Brien from the UCSF Graduate Students' Association spoke with <i>Your Call</i> host Rose Aguilar about science education in the Bay Area and the new science high school at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.
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Archive: Scientist-astronaut sends T-cells into space
A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan
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Archive: Action needed to stop demise of primary care
Primary care medicine faces a serious crisis that could threaten the health of millions of Americans, according to a UCSF health policy expert.
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Archive: Google Chef to Cook for SFGH's Trauma Recovery Center Benefit
Google chef Nate Keller will give a private cooking demonstration as part of a September 16 fundraiser for the San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Recovery Center.
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Archive: UCSF to Survey Sites on Campus Life
UCSF wants to know what people think about campus life at various satellite sites, like Laurel Heights.
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Archive: UCSF Police Arrest Suspected Thief on Parnassus Campus
UCSF police on Saturday arrested John Tobias, who was reportedly found in possession of stolen property in the Medical Sciences Building.
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Archive: Improvisational comedy event "living and laughing with cancer" at UCSF
UCSF Cancer Resource Center will host "Living and Laughing with Cancer: An Evening of Improvisational Theater" on Thursday, September 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.
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Archive: UK Chief Medical Officer Urges Patient Safety Measures
One of the world's most prominent health care leaders, Sir Liam Donaldson, MSc, MD, chief medical officer of the United Kingdom and founding chair of the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety, gave a talk on Monday, Aug. 28, about medical errors and approaches to hospital safety.
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Archive: Volunteer Mission to Gulf Coast Changes Nurses' Lives
Part of a series marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, an article in Monday's <i>Vallejo Times-Herald </i>profiles some of those who participated in volunteer missions to aid hurricane victims.
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Archive: Mount Zion Auxiliary Rises Above Scandal
The Auxiliary of UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion is not letting a recent setback keep it from its century-old tradition of supporting patients.
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Archive: Communication Is Key to Medication Adherence
Patients benefit best from medications when they take the right medicines at the right dose and at the right time.
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Archive: UCSF Oncologist Inducted into Strike Out Cancer Hall of Fame
As a lifelong baseball fan, Richard J. Cohen, MD, a practicing oncologist in San Francisco and clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, is no stranger to seeing baseball played from a field-level view.
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Archive: UCSF Unveils Faculty Mentoring Program
UCSF is expanding its mentoring opportunities for junior and new faculty, including offering training for mentors and awards for excellence in mentoring.
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Archive: On the Spot: Louann Brizendine, MD, Author of The Female Brain
Our first volunteer is Louann Brizendine, MD. Brizendine completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine, did graduate work in London at UCL in Philosophy of Mind and History of Science and Medicine, and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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Archive: Prominent health care leader to address patient safety at UCSF
One of the world's most prominent health care leaders will visit UCSF and share his insights on patient safety from a global perspective and the latest approaches to hospital safety and policy. The talk is open to the public.
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Archive: UCSF's Global Status Attracts Foreign Students and Scholars
UCSF's ninth-place ranking in <em>Newsweek International's</em> list of the top 100 global universities is based on a number of different measures.