Archive: Millions of secret British tobacco industry documents to be released
Flight attendants' decades-long exposure to potentially deadly secondhand tobacco smoke has now led to a strikingly different sort of exposure.
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Archive: UCSF/SFVAMC physician warns against confusing high cancer screening rates with quality patient care
Even as America's medical centers are being urged to use mathematical measures to describe quality care, a UCSF/San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center physician is warning against the "pitfalls" of confusing such measurement with actual quality, ...
Archive: Special events in June focus on women and heart disease
Three UCSF special events in June focus on raising awareness of women's risk of heart disease -- the leading killer of American women.
Archive: Prestigious research honor goes to Jeffrey Bluestone
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) will award its highest honor for basic diabetes research to Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, an internationally recognized leader in autoimmunity research and the director of the Diabetes Center at UCSF.
Archive: HIV intersects with reproductive biology at UCSF seminar
A UCSF Women's HIV Interdisciplinary Network (WHIN) seminar titled " Reproductive Biology: Intersections with HIV Research" will take place Monday, May 24, 2004.
Archive: Lesbian health conference on June 19 in San Francisco
Legal issues that affect lesbian health will be the special focus of the fourth annual Lesbian Health Conference in San Francisco on Saturday, June 19.
Archive: Alzheimer's Pathology Can Be Reduced, Longevity Improved in Mouse Model, by Blocking Protein Regulation Pathway, Gladstone Study Shows
Removal of an enzyme that regulates the activity of many proteins can suppress key features of Alzheimer's disease in experimental models, researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) recently reported in the Journal of Neuroscience (May 12, 2004).
Archive: Key Immune System Cell Reduces Secretion of Defense Protein in HIV-Associated Dementia Patients
Researchers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and UCSF have discovered that an important protein normally secreted by macrophages, the scavenger cells of the immune system, is secreted at significantly reduced levels in patients with HIV-related dementia.
Archive: UCSF names renowned neonatologist Sam Hawgood as new chair of pediatrics
Sam Hawgood, MB, BS,1. an international leader in neonatology, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Archive: Clinical trial shows drug may offer a new option to prevent rejection of transplanted kidneys
Results of a preliminary study suggest that a treatment called LEA29Y works as well as the standard therapy, cyclosporine, to prevent acute kidney transplant rejection, with less potential for long-term harm to the organ and the patient, and better functioning of the transplanted kidney.