inSites: What's on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007
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The UCSF Campus Mediation Program recently trained 40 members of the campus community to help resolve conflicts on campus.
New data from six U.S. sites show a dramatic shift by men acutely infected with HIV to choose to have unprotected intercourse only with other HIV-infected partners.
UCSF recently honored biotech visionary William Rutter with the renaming of the Mission Bay community center and a symposium bridging the gap between industry and academia.
The largest study ever conducted of the effect of gender in children with Crohn's Disease, a chronic intestinal disorder, has found that boys were over three times more likely than girls to suffer one of the condition's most devastating effects: the failure to grow normally.
More must be done to increasing understanding of those with disabilities, according to an expert who spoke at UCSF recently.
The most advanced noninvasive, radiosurgery tool for treating a variety of brain disorders--including tumors--is now being used by specialists at UCSF Medical Center. The new machine expands UCSF's ability to provide state-of-the-art, specialized care to patients.
Dancers in costume from the San Francisco Ballet production of "The Nutcracker" will give patients at UCSF Children's Hospital a special, command performance of the beloved holiday ballet
UCSF Global Health Sciences is launching an "action tank," with start-up funds from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to promote and implement the most promising strategies against global health crises. The Gates Foundation is providing a $5 million grant for the initial phase.
Leslie Wilson knows what it costs to keep our blood supply safe from Chagas' disease...
UCSF is exhibiting a photographic documentary at the library at the Parnassus campus of actual X-rays and CT-scans of survivors of terrorist attacks.
UCSF staff members are invited to learn about the role of the staff advisors to the UC Board of Regents on December 3.
The San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Program will come to UCSF on December 11 and 18.
San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell paid a visit to UCSF Children's Hospital, where she heard about the need to build a new one at Mission Bay.
UCSF School of Nursing Professor Jeanie Kayser-Jones, RN, PhD, FAAN, has received the first annual "Nurse Leader in Aging Award" from the American Academy of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation, in recognition of her significant advancements in the field of gerontological nursing.
Devra Davis, an expert on environmental health, will talk about her new book, <i>The Secret History of the War on Cancer</i>, at Mount Zion on November 29.
UCSF is hosting a symposium on the intersection of medical science and information technology in recognition of the visionary thinking of William J. Rutter, PhD. The symposium will coincide with formal renaming of the Community Center at UCSF Mission Bay to the William J. Rutter Center.
UCSF faculty and industry leaders will talk about their work during a symposium to honor biotechnology pioneer William J. Rutter on November 29.
UCSF School of Medicine graduate Michael Callaham, a national expert in emergency medicine, has been named chair of the new Department of Emergency Medicine