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Archive: inSites: What's on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for September 2007
Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF - from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Café conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide™, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here's a handy index of the content we brought you in September on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.
Feature Stories - The Big Picture on the UCSF.edu Homepage
Simple Tool for Improving Doctor-Patient Communication Yields Significant Health Benefits
A simple new communications tool developed by a UCSF research team improves the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients, resulting in dramatic improvements in health and safety...
UCSF Researcher's Drug Strategy for Huntington's Disease
Marc Diamond, a UCSF neurologist and scientist, has developed a new technique to track aggregations of proteins suspected of causing Huntington's disease, and used it to identify molecules that may serve as the basis for new drug development...
UCSF School of Medicine Names King as Chair of the Department of Medicine
Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD, an internationally respected expert in lung disorders, has been named chair of the UCSF School of Medicine's Department of Medicine, effective September 19...
Circling In on Alzheimer's and Obesity
As America struggles under the growing weight of Alzheimer's and obesity, two UCSF scientists at the affiliated Gladstone Institutes demonstrate why basic science might be our best hope...
Crowning Glory: A Conversation with Dental Sciences Researcher Stefan Habelitz
Tooth enamel is the result of millions of years of evolution. Understanding all the details about how it forms could point the way to a new class of biomaterials, not to mention a future where "false teeth" are "real teeth"...
New Breeds of Mice Shed Light on Human Cancers and Treatments
Scientists aren't in the business of making better mousetraps, but they're serious about making better mice to understand cancer biology and shed light on human cancers and treatments...
News Center - News and Research for the Global UCSF Community
- • Poor
Health in Adulthood Linked with Parents' Education Level
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In 117th Shattuck Lecture, UCSF's Schroeder Addresses "Improving
the Health of the American People"
- • UCSF
Scientist and Colleagues Develop Diagnostic Aid for Rare Inherited Immune
System Disorder
- • UC
Regents Adopt Recommendations to Enhance and Support Diversity (UC Office
of the President)
- • Early-Alzheimer's
Disease Program Focuses on Support, Enrichment
- • San
Francisco VA Researchers Reach Out to Iraq and Afghanistan
- • Embryonic
Stem Cell Strategy Advanced with UCSF Finding
- • UCSF
Animal Care Facility Receives Top Accreditation
- • Novel
Virus Detection Identifies New Viruses in Study of Respiratory Infections
- • Increased
Risk for Arthritis and Lupus Tied to New Gene
- • UCSF
Launches Executive Course in Drug Development and Regulation
- • Presence
of Gene Mutation Helps Guide Thyroid Cancer Treatment
- • Gladstone
Scientists Uncover Potential Mechanism of Memory Loss in Alzheimer's
Disease (Gladstone Institutes)
- • HHMI
News: Structural Studies Reveal New Clues to Prion Infectivity
- • Neural
Stem Cell Study Reveals Mechanism that May Play Role in Cancer
- • UCSF
to Offer Third Year of Faculty Leadership Collaborative
- • UCSF
Accepts Nominations for MLK Award
- • Congresswoman
Woolsey Offers Perspective on Global Health
- • UCSF
Welcomes New Workforce Development Coordinator
- • UCSF
to Host Faculty and Staff Art Show
- • Iraq
War Exhibit Offers a Moment of Reflection
- • Chancellor's
Health Policy Lecture to Feature Global Tobacco
- • UCSF
Police Report Robbery of Employee Near Mount Zion
- • UCSF
to Host Eco-Fair at Laurel Heights
- • UCSF
School of Medicine Names King as Chair of the Department of Medicine
- • SFGH
to Host Tuberculosis Research Symposium
- • UCSF
to Host Author of Book on Why Gay Executives Excel as Leaders
- • UCSF
to Honor Former Chancellor Lee's Legacy of Leadership
- • UCSF
to Celebrate Induction of New Members to Academy of Medical Educators
- • Creating
a Change in Climate: A Leader's Commitment to Social Justice
- • Expert
to Explain Legal Options of Same-Sex Relationships
- • UCSF
to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
- • Lima
Named Director of Mission Bay Medical Center Project
- • UCSF
to Host NIH-CTSA Web Conference on Pediatric Research
- • UCSF
Offers Mediation Training Opportunity
- • Family
Picnic Day at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Set for September 22
- • Campus to Exhibit Boots from Fallen Soldiers
- • September 28: Old Space: Protecting
Young Bones from Weightlessness: A Conversation with Thomas Lang, Professor
of Radiology at UCSF's Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging (Read
it | Hear
it )
- • September 21: Working Small, Thinking
Big: A Conversation with Bioengineer Tejal Desai (Read
it | Hear
it )
- • September 13: Circling In on Alzheimer's
and Obesity (Read
it | Hear
it )
- • September 7: Crowning Glory: A Conversation with Dental Sciences Researcher Stefan Habelitz (Read it | Hear it )
- • Denys,
Ferriero, Selected for Royer Award (School of Medicine)
- • She's
a Stem Cell Scientist by Day, but UCSF's Elias Also Makes Time for the
Tango
- • Meet
New UCSF Faculty
- • The
Diabetes Teaching Center Launches New Diabetes Management Educational Website
- • Happy
Birthday to Science Café, Celebrating Its One-Year Anniversary
- • RSS
Feeds Make It Easy to Subscribe to Campus Information
- • The
Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) (School
of Medicine)
- • What's on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for August 2007
- UCSF
Science Café 46: A Conversation with Thomas Lang
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UCSF Hosts
Second Annual Interprofessional Education Day
- UCSF Science Café
45: A Conversation with Tejal Desai
- Philanthropist
Dede Wilsey Discusses Efforts to Raise Funds for UCSF Medical Center at Mission
Bay
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A Sneak Peek
at the Above and Beyond Gala
- Physician
Satisfaction-and Dissatisfaction-the Focus of KQED's Forum
- UCSF Science Café
44: Circling In on Alzheimer's and Obesity
- UCSF Science Café
43: A Conversation with Stefan Habelitz
- NPR
Discusses New NIH Asthma Treatment Guidelines with UCSF's Boushey