University of California San Francisco
School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble offers her perspective on work-life challenges at UCSF and her personal reflections on being a Japanese woman in a new interview posted on the Supportive Work Environment <a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/swe/sweetInterviewKoda.htm" class="tealLink" target="_blank">website</a>.
A study of once-confidential tobacco industry documents reveals that in the past few years several tobacco companies have continued to support research challenging the link between cancer and a potent carcinogen found in cigarette smoke.
UCSF staff at Laurel Heights deserve some high fives. Last week, they raised nearly $6,800, mostly from $5 donations, to aid victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Finally, after four years of state budget cuts, the UC system received good news in the 2005-06 budget proposed by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday.
The UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) continues its second year this winter with four new courses starting in February. The courses are for the public.
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, PhD, noted author, anthropologist and expert in primate sociobiology, will present the Tenth Annual Maurice Galante Lecture on Monday, Jan. 24, 3 p.m., in Cole Hall.
A UCSF study estimates that the US has some 11 million children with special health care needs, and that their health care expenditures are three times higher than other children.
Vicki McCulley tore up her knee 17 years ago while hotdogging on a swing. But after years of pain and walking like a crab, she is back in action, thanks to a procedure at UCSF.
Cynthia Jensen, a charge nurse in the Intensive Care Nursery at UCSF Children's Hospital, was honored in late December as the winner of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses.
Young women showed no reduction in their use of contraceptives, nor any other changes in their sexual behavior when provided with easier access to the "morning after pill," according to a UCSF study.
A campaign, launched by a group on the Laurel Heights campus, aims to raise $10,000 in five days for tsunami and earthquake victims.
Young, urban women showed no reduction in their use of contraceptives, nor any other changes in their sexual behavior when provided with easier access to the so-called "morning after pill," also known as emergency contraception (EC), according to UCSF researchers.
The Community Outreach Internship Program is recruiting departments for its ninth year of training community residents for jobs at UCSF.
Deborah Greenspan, interim chair of the Department of Orofacial Sciences at the UCSF School of Dentistry, has been elected vice president of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR).
Three campus members, who are leaders in promoting ethnic diversity at UCSF, have been named winners of the Martin Luther King Jr. Award.
The UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is offering new classes for the public on important issues facing society, ranging from what to expect in the next decade ...
Each day brings new headlines about the growing epidemic of obesity. Two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight and the rates of childhood obesity are skyrocketing. The human and medical costs are enormous.
Infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, influenza, and SARS, are the main causes of illness and death in the developing world. Poverty and the lack of an organized system of medical care are strong contributing factors.
Leading health care experts will offer new information and insights about some of the most important health policy issues facing our society in a new six-week community education course beginning Tuesday, February 8, 2005, as part of the UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
A new six-week community education course exploring contemporary issues in health care ethics will begin Wednesday, February 9, 2005, as part of the UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).
A study by researchers at the UCSF School of Nursing has found that women who have less sleep or severely disrupted sleep in late pregnancy are significantly more likely to have longer labors and are more likely to have cesarean births.
Drunken fruit flies have led to the discovery that insulin may determine susceptibility to alcohol. If confirmed in humans -- and the two species share about two-thirds of their genes -- the finding suggests a promising way to treat alcoholism using drugs that control insulin activity.
UCSF scientists have found that the brains of rats can be trained to learn an alternate way of processing changes in the loudness of sound.