The University of California (UC) today joined a consortium of leading scientific and medical institutions around the country to warn that persistent flat-funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such devastating diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

UCSF medical school Professor and Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Paul D. Blanc, MD, is a guest on AM1090 Seattle's Eco Talk program, to discuss his book How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (University of California Press).

Keith Armstrong, LCSW, co-author of the book Courage After Fire, which explores how troops readjust to civilian life after battle, talks about how to reach troubled soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan who may be extremely reluctant to receive therapy.

UCSF was the biggest winner of grants awarded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Friday, with seven grants worth nearly $17.4 million, and an additional $1.1 million going to UCSF and UC Irvine researchers for grants that had not been approved by the institute last month but were funded under the previous outlays. All of the new grants will fund "mature, ongoing studies," according to the stem cell institute.

Treating pediatric asthma has long been appreciated as a complex endeavor requiring the collaboration of children, their families, health care providers and school officials, among others.

Nominations are due April 17 for UCSF's first Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is typically thought of as a neurological disorder affecting adults. But children get it too.

Actress Carol Channing will return to her home town of San Francisco to perform in "Love & Laughter...and Legends: Just What the Doctor Ordered," a benefit for patient services at UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center.

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