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Wireless Implant Allows Doctors To Monitor UCSF Heart Patient At Home
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Number of rare enterovirus cases grows in Bay Area, California
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Physician Rachel Remen learns to heal patients, self
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Sugar showdown: Vote on San Francisco soda tax draws near
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UC President and Chancellor Welcome Incoming Class
Several hundred incoming students gathered in the Millberry Union Gym for a warm welcome to UCSF by Chancellor Sam Hawgood, as well as special guest UC President Janet Napolitano.
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UCSF Scientist Wins the National Medal of Science
President Obama announced that UCSF biochemist Bruce Alberts, a tireless advocate for science and education, is one of nine to be awarded the National Medal of Science.
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UCSF panel highlights need for international response plan for pandemic threat
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Obama honors nation's top scientists
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Campus, Medical Center Leadership Get Vaccinated
Campus and medical center leadership rolled up their sleeves to kick off flu vaccination season. UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS; UCSF Medical Center CEO Mark Laret; UCSF Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer Sheila Antrum, RN, MSHA; School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov, RN, PhD; and School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, were among the first to get vaccinated at a cowboy-themed “Flu Shot Roundup” event held Oct. 2 at Cole Hall, where many donned Western bandanas.
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UCSF Ebola Expert: Ebola Is Not As Infectious As Influenza, Tuberculosis, Measles And Other Airborne Diseases
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Vision-impaired swimmers can see beyond the surface
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UCSF Neuroscientists Score Well in NIH’s First BRAIN Initiative Grants
Five UCSF neuroscientists have received research grants in the highly competitive first wave of National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards to support President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative.
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Kaiser Permanente's Genetic Database Is Boon to Medical Research
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UCSF clinic opens to provide PrEP
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Experts Discuss Ebola Virus at Conference in SF
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Top global heath officials meeting in San Francisco, discussing Ebola concerns
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Cancer risk from air pollution drops in Southern California
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A Decade In, UCSF Emerges as a Global Health Powerhouse
Just a decade after UCSF Global Sciences was founded, it has become a powerful research enterprise, attracting leading minds to come solve some of the world's toughest health problems.
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Ribbon-Cutting Celebrates the Opening Of Mission Hall
Mission Hall, also known as the Global Health & Clinical Sciences Building, opened for classes in early September, and the spacious, sunny building is just beginning to hum with activity as students and faculty begin to make it their home. The official ribbon cutting ceremony took place Oct. 1.
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UCSF Celebrates Diversity Month
UC San Francisco celebrates the diversity of its campus community during Diversity Month, with events held throughout the month of October. Highlights include film screenings at San Francisco General and UCSF, Block Party 8 at Mission Bay, and the Health Disparities Research Symposium VIII.
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No Excuses for Skipping Your Annual Flu Shot
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that 5-20 percent of Americans come down with the flu every year, so getting your flu shot is as important as ever.
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UCSF Funded to Provide PrEP Consultations for Clinicians
The UCSF Clinician Consultation Center at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center has been funded to provide a PrEPline, a telephone consultation service that gives expert guidance to healthcare providers across the nation who prescribe antiretroviral medications to prevent HIV.
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$17M DoD Award Aims to Improve Clinical Trials for Traumatic Brain Injury
An unprecedented, public-private partnership funded by the Department of Defense is being launched to drive the development of better-run clinical trials and may lead to the first successful treatments for traumatic brain injury.
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Predictor of Tissue Injury in Kidney Transplant Recipients Possibly Found
Researchers at UCSF and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, may have found a predictor for a disorder affecting kidney transplant recipients that can accelerate organ failure.
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Organ transplant patients face higher risk of skin cancer
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No-cost, long-acting contraception cuts teen pregnancy by 79 percent
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Chancellor Highlights UCSF Strengths in Era of Change
UCSF is poised at “a key inflection point” in its history and must be prepared to swing in new directions, Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, said in his inaugural State of the University speech on Sept. 30.
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Discovery Fellows Program Meets Fundraising Challenge
A year ahead of schedule, UCSF has met the unprecedented fundraising challenge set by Sir Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman to raise $5 million from 500 donors for the Discovery Fellows Program, which supports basic science PhD education.
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SF General Hospital launches hotline for clinicians who prescribe HIV drug