Imaging of Brain Chemicals Improves Alzheimers Diagnosis
Diagnosing Alzheimer's disease may become easier with the help of imaging studies from the San Francisco Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, which is affiliated with UC San Francisco.
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Lung Cancer-Causing Mutation Strikes Women Smokers Three Times More Often than Men
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Harvard University tracking people after lung cancer surgery have discovered that those who bear a common cancer-causing mutation tend to have particularly aggressive tumors early on and are four times more likely to die of the disease.
Finding Suggests a Common Childhood Leukemia May Form in the Womb
Researchers led by a scientist who joined the UC San Francisco faculty last week are reporting that a genetic mutation implicated in a common form of childhood leukemia appears to occur in the womb.
Racial Disparity in Lung Cancer Treatment Must Be Overcome, UCSF Specialists Assert
Preventing lung cancer is easier than curing it, and any barriers that inhibit blacks from full access to care must be removed, emphasize two doctors at the University of California , San Francisco.
UCSF Researchers Report New Risk Factors for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
In a large population-based study conducted on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco found that exposure to certain environmental factors that affect the immune system could decrease a person's risk of developing the disease.
UCSF’s Stanley Prusiner Named to Receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, 55, today was named to receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and characterizing an entirely new class of proteins, called prions, which cause several rare and fatal neurodegenerative diseases.