Media, Message, Medicine: UCSF Women's Health 2020 conference
The role of the media in communicating news about women's health will be a featured topic at the 11th annual UCSF Women's Health 2020 Conference on Saturday, March 20.
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Multi-center trial compares three medications in patients with heart failure
Results of an international study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) suggest that there is no major difference between three medications often prescribed for patients with chronic heart failure to prevent death, heart attack and stroke.
UCSF study finds pediatrician's individual judgment often better than clinical guidelines for treating infant fever
Pediatricians frequently use individual judgment in treating infants with fever, and according to a new study, this judgment is often as good as or better than following the current clinical guidelines on how to manage these cases.
UCSF/Baylor team uses new method to measure bone loss in astronauts flying long missions
A team of NASA-funded researchers from UCSF and Baylor College of Medicine has used a new method to measure and characterize bone loss caused by prolonged spaceflight.
"Women, Poverty and the Global AIDS epidemic" is focus of International Women's Day briefing on March 8th
The UCSF Women's Global Health Imperative (WGHI) will sponsor a special briefing on March 8 on the importance of incorporating both economic and educational initiatives for women into efforts to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Study moves in on why astronauts suffer bone loss
A new study by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC) moves in on the physiological basis for the bone density loss experienced by people subjected to prolonged periods of bed rest and by astronauts who fly lengthy missions under the weightless conditions of space.
UCSF finding advances insight into adult stem cells in human brain
UCSF researchers have made a notable advance in the effort to illuminate the existence of adult stem cells in the human brain ...
UCSF Mini Medical School VI offers public opportunity for discovery and learning
UCSF kicks off Mini Medical School VI in March with a six-week series of lectures every Wednesday from March 17 to April 21 focusing on the theme "learn and discover."
Young Women's Health Conference on March 10 features one-day program that teen girls create
More than 1,000 teens from San Francisco and San Mateo counties are expected to attend the 4th Annual Young Women's Health Conference on Wednesday, March 10, in San Francisco.
New UCSF AIDS Research Institute director appointed
John S. Greenspan, PhD, BDS, FRCPath, dean for research at the UCSF School of Dentistry, has been named the new director of the UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI).
UCSF physicians publish groundbreaking book on medical mistakes; author to speak at public event on
Nearly five years after an Institute of Medicine report put medical mistakes on the public's radar screen, two UCSF Medical Center physicians have published a groundbreaking discussion of why errors occur and what health care providers and leaders must do to cure this epidemic.
Dentists and others volunteer
Children and their parents or caregivers can receive dental treatment free of charge February 6 at the Family Dental Center at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.
UCSF launches comprehensive HIV website in South Africa
Health care providers in South Africa will soon have speedier access to a vast trove of reliable information about HIV and its treatment, due to the collaborative effort of UCSF, the National Library of Medicine and a South African university