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Guanfacine, a medication commonly prescribed to alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, is no more effective than a placebo, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Scientists have discovered an unsuspected role for a gene known to be one of the best predictors of human breast cancer outcome.
A team of researchers at UCSF is seeking young women to participate in the first U.S. study of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to prevent herpes and HIV infecti
The AIDS Research Institute at UCSF will sponsor its fifth annual World AIDS Day concert this year.
Scientists have discovered that autoimmunity can be triggered in the thymus, where the immune system's T cells develop, if T cells fail to recognize just one of the body's thousands of proteins as "self."
Macy's will illuminate thousands of holiday lights on its 85-foot-tall Union Square fir tree on Friday, November 24, with each twinkling light representing a donation to programs for children facing life-threatening illness at UCSF Children's Hospital.
A novel method for predicting the risk of prostate cancer recurrence following surgery that was developed by urologists at UCSF Medical Center has been validated in a recent study.
A study of almost 600,000 men aged 70 and older reveals that 56 percent had a routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, a blood test for prostate cancer, even though no treatment guidelines recommend PSA screening for men of that age.
Venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers, UCSF scientists have discovered.
A discussion about the health and human rights among women in Afghanistan today, sponsored by the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.
UCSF Medical Center will team up with the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Stanford University Medical Center to host a free seminar for patients and families living with the lung disorder known as IPF, or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Established in 1986 in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is marking its 20th anniversary and its evolution as a national and global leader in designing and testing HIV prevention interventions.
Renowned historians Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin will discuss the scientific achievements and personal story of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer at a special UCSF lecture on Friday, November 3. The event is free and open to the public.
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD, and Neil Risch, PhD, have been appointed joint chairs of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Clifford A. Lowell, MD, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF Department of Laboratory Medicine. He will assume his post November 1.
UCSF has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide 25 undergraduate students each year for four years the opportunity to engage in a fully funded, hands-on research experience during the summer.
Thomas Parker Vail, MD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UCSF School of Medicine. He will assume his new post in January 2007.
The health status of young adults is far worse than that of teens, with mortality rates more than double due in part to increased rates of injury, homicide and suicide, according to a new analysis by UCSF adolescent medicine researchers.
Doctors are as likely to underprescribe medications for elders as they are to overprescribe, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
A team of researchers led by UCSF nursing professor Mary Blegen, RN, PhD, has launched a two-year study to measure nursing quality in acute inpatient units.
More than 2,500 former patients and their families have been invited to attend the annual reunion of the UCSF Children's Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Funded by a $63,000 gift from the New York-based Li Foundation to the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Chinese scientists from Peking University will study the emerging field of systems biology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have identified a previously unknown function of APOBEC3G (A3G), a protein that acts against HIV, a finding that may lead to new approaches for controlling HIV infection.
Four UCSF faculty scientists are among the 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today.
David Julius, PhD, a pioneer in research clarifying the molecular basis of the sense of pain and temperature, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology in the UCSF School of Medicine.