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Warner C. Greene — who directs virology and immunology research at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes — has won the 2012 Alumni Achievement Award from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
According to a provocative new UCSF analysis, patients are all too often left in the dark about how and what hospitals charge for their medical care – even in the face of a mounting push nationally for consumers to have a voice in how their health care dollars are spent.
To celebrate World Malaria Day 2012, on Wednesday, April 25, the UCSF Global Health Group and local non-profit Zagaya are hosting the Bay Area World Malaria Day Symposium.
Funding cuts for malaria control are the single most common reason for the resurgence of the deadly disease, according to a new study that has linked overall weakened malaria control programs to the majority of global resurgences since 1930.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will introduce a four-year, $100 million education fundraising initiative during a commencement address on April 24. This campuswide goal includes $80 million in new scholarships and fellowships, and $20 million in support of curriculum innovation, interprofessional education, and teaching facilities.
Ten years ago, a landmark clinical trial in Canada demonstrated the unequivocal effectiveness of brain surgeries for treating uncontrolled epilepsy, but since then the procedure has not been widely adopted — in fact, it is dramatically underutilized according to a new UCSF study.
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UCSF Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. The event is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague.
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 than previously reported.
<p>The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — is solved this week in the journal <em>Nature</em> by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
<p><em>Time </em>magazine has named Gladstone and UCSF scientist Robert Grant, MD, MPH, to the <a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112159,00.html" target="_blank">2012 TIME 100</a>, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.</p>
A new UCSF Medical Center study finds that publicly reported “hospital readmission rates” often reflect problems like hospital-acquired infections or complications from surgery that may be misleading to patients.
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann spoke with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2012/04/17/working-toward-a-new-social-contract-for-health-care/" target="_blank"><em>The Wall Street Journal</em></a> reporter Amy Marcus about her vision of a “new social contract” for patients participating in the health care system.</p>
A new brain cancer vaccine tailored to individual patients by using material from their own tumors has proven effective in a multicenter phase 2 clinical trial at extending their lives by several months or longer. The patients suffered from recurrent glioblastoma multiform — which kills thousands of Americans every year.
The key to treating one of the most common types of human leukemia may lie within mutations in a gene called FLT3, according to new research led by physician-scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.
One of the ultimate ways of understanding what impact any particular gene has in human health or disease is to disrupt it—knocking it down or wiping it out in a worm, fly or mouse and gauging what happens next.
In November 2011, a National Academy of Sciences committee issued a report calling for the creation of a “Google Maps”-like data network intended to revolutionize medical discovery, diagnosis and treatment. Today, the co-chair of that committee, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is issuing a call-to-arms to patient advocates to help make that idea a reality.
UC President Mark Yudof looks forward to working with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to repair the damage caused by the incident involving the use of pepper spray on students on Nov. 18, 2011.
Can a simple diagnostic test used to measure a heart’s electrical activity help predict heart attacks? And can that knowledge help doctors reroute their patients away from coronary heart disease?
A new technique for analyzing brain images offers the possibility of using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to predict the rate of progression and physical path of many degenerative brain diseases, report scientists at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
A UCSF-led effort to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients has been selected as one of the first projects to undergo more timely and collaborative review at the Food and Drug Administration.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have enhanced the understanding of how a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease keeps young brains healthy, but can damage them later in life — suggesting new research avenues for treating this devastating disease.
A UCSF program titled, "Science & Cooking," will feature a discussion on the increasingly parallel technologies behind modern cooking and bioscience, with guest speakers David Weitz, a physics professor at Harvard University, and Corey Lee, award-winning chef and owner of San Francisco's Benu restaurant.
Greater lifetime exposure to the stress of traumatic events was linked to higher levels of inflammation in a study of almost 1,000 patients with cardiovascular disease led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed – and more compassionate and aware of others’ feelings, according to a new study led by UCSF.
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered a key protein that regulates insulin resistance — a breakthrough that points to a potentially new way to treat or forestall type 2 diabetes, a rapidly growing global health problem.
A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at UCSF, thanks to a technique developed at UCSF called ribosome profiling, which enables the measurement of gene activity inside living cells.
Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women, who account for at least 27 percent of new U.S. cases.
Friday, March 23, marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, which set in motion a series of reforms that will roll out over the course of four years and grant 32 million more Americans insurance coverage. Next week the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear three days of arguments related to the legal challenges to the health care reform law.