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Screening mammography found effective in reducing advanced breast cancer in elderly women
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Keeping doctors in the dark: why women don't discuss using alternative treatments for breast cancer
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UCSF study finds many areas in California have a dentist shortage
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UCSF researchers to participate in World Cancer Summit in Paris
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Deadly to cattle and humans, prions may help other organisms survive, researchers find
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Infection rate from surgery cut in half if more oxygen given during anestheisa
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Updated treatment guidelines for HIV infection announced by international panel of AIDS experts
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UCSF opens Lesbian Health Research Center
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Declining medi-cal enrollments are hitting state's safety-net clinics harder than managed care
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Managed care plans not always better for preventive medicine, says UCSF study
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New UCSF School of Nursing Dean appointed
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Immediate health care savings if pregnant women quit smoking, says UCSF study
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States should take advantage of opportunity to expand health coverage for adolescents, according to
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RENO DENTIST DONATES PROCEEDS TO UC SAN FRANCISCO
Reno dentist J.S. McElhinney, III, DDS, graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry, will donate a day's dental practice proceeds to help support UCSF School of Dentistry educational programs.
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SAN JOSE DENTIST DONATES PROCEEDS TO UC SAN FRANCISCO
San Jose dentist Eugene Sakai, DDS, graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry, will donate a day's proceeds from his dental practice to help support UCSF School of Dentistry educational programs.
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SAN FRANCISCO DENTIST DONATES EARNINGS TO UC SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco dentist Charles Bertolami, DDS, dean of the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry, will donate a day's earnings to help support UCSF School of Dentistry educational programs.
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Scientists find protein can protect new blood vessels from leaking ---
A protein recently found to increase blood vessel growth now appears to protect vessels from leaking as well, a potential boon to treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases and for new therapies that grow healthy blood vessels in damaged hearts and limbs.
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NEW DRUG SHOWS ANTIVIRAL BENEFIT AGAINST HIV BUT PRODUCES RENAL SIDE EFFECTS
An experimental drug that fights the AIDS virus by attacking the enzymes that enable it to replicate has proved effective in a nationwide clinical study.
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MOUSE EMBRYO HINTS AT HOW MAMMALIAN BODY FORMS
Researchers including Cambridge University's Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PhD, and UC San Francisco's Roger Pedersen, PhD, have made a finding in the mouse embryo that they say provides a fundamental insight into how the body forms in mammals.
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OMEGA BOYS CLUB THANKS UCSF DENTIST FOR BEING A FRIEND
Every year, the Omega Boys Club honors men or women who exemplify the club's mission – to help individuals stay alive and free, unharmed by violence and out of prison.
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DATA ESTABLISHES LINK BETWEEN "MAD COW" DISEASE, HUMAN BRAIN DISORDER
Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), ...
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UCSF LIBRARY DISPLAYS PUBLIC, PRIVATE WORLDS OF ARTIST ISAMU NOGUCHI
The exhibition, "The Public and Private Worlds of Isamu Noguchi: A Selection of Works from The Isamu Noguchi Foundation, New York" is currently on display at the UCSF library.
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NURSE SHORTAGE LOOMS IN CALIFORNIA AND NATIONWIDE ACCORDING TO UCSF STUDY
California faces a shortage of registered nurses and needs to increase the supply to keep pace with the rapid growth of the state's population, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Public Policy Institute of California.
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Zebrafish's powerful heart gene could lead to transplant therapy
Researchers have discovered a gene in zebrafish so powerful it can be used to redirect the fate of cells in the developing embryo to become beating heart cells, suggesting that a similar gene in humans could be used to generate heart cells in culture for transplant in ailing people.
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MRI ADDS TO ULTRASOUND FOR FETAL DIAGNOSIS, UCSF RESEARCHERS FIND
Thanks to ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging techniques, MRI now can be used to provide more information when fetal abnormalities are suspected during a prenatal ultrasound exam...
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Lung Cancer-Causing Mutation Strikes Women Smokers Three Times More Often than Men
Scientists at UC San Francisco and Harvard University tracking people after lung cancer surgery have discovered that those who bear a common cancer-causing mutation tend to have particularly aggressive tumors early on and are four times more likely to die of the disease.
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MALE CIRCUMCISION COULD PREVENT MILLIONS OF HIV INFECTIONS
A simple, outpatient procedure could potentially save millions of men and their partners from becoming infected with HIV, but health professionals have been reluctant to provide the needed information and resources, say the authors of a Lancet editorial review.
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NEW STUDY FINDS NO CLEAR EVIDENCE OF BENEFITS IN ONGOING DEBATE ABOUT NAME-REPORTING OF HIV INFECTI
In one of the largest studies to date, a team of AIDS researchers concludes that name-based reporting programs for HIV infection are not producing specific public health benefits in the effort to control the AIDS epidemic.
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UCSF STUDY FINDS DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN CHANGING HIGH-RISK BEHAVIOR FOR H
Drug users participating in a treatment program based on a "therapeutic community" model showed a decrease in HIV-related high risk behavior, according to a new study by University of California, San Francisco AIDS researchers.