Slideshow: Back to School 2018
Back to School 2018 Learn more about the incoming fall class of students, check out the sights around campus and see about how UCSF is teaching the next generation of health leaders. See more
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To Address Homelessness Effectively, Clinicians are Learning What It Really Looks Like
To teach future doctors, nurses and pharmacists how they can advocate for systemic changes and how to improve their interactions with individual homeless patients, UCSF provides an elective course each fall.
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Defibrillator Vest Fails Test Because Many Heart Attack Survivors Wouldn't Wear It
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Wearable Defibrillator Lowers Sudden Cardiac Death, But Only When You Wear It
Researchers at UCSF find wearable cardioverter defibrillators lower mortality among those who wear it as prescribed.
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Genetic Predictors of Lifespan Studied in Whites and Asians Don’t Apply to Black Youth
Nearly all studies of telomere genetics have been performed in adult populations of European or Asian ancestry, meaning that studies aiming to understand how early environmental exposures impact telomere length across different ethnic groups can’t easily assess the role of natural variations in telomere biology.
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UCSF to Establish Latinx Center of Excellence
The UCSF School of Medicine announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration recently awarded Alicia Fernández a four-year grant to create a UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence.
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New Tourette Disorder Genes Come to Light
In DNA sequencing study of TD, UCSF researchers and their collaborators have unearthed new data suggesting a potential role for disruptions in cell polarity in the development of this condition.
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Study: Infant's Jaundice Treatment May Increase Risk of Developing Epilepsy
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Trump's Next Target: Legal Immigrants
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Big Tobacco Is Already Eyeing Pot
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Newborn Jaundice Treatment May Increase Risk of Childhood Seizures
New research suggests that phototherapy – a treatment for newborns with jaundice – could increase children’s risk of developing epilepsy.
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UCSF Health Names New Chief Financial Officer
UCSF Health has named Raju Iyer as its new senior vice president and chief financial officer.
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Why DNA Is the Most Exciting Programming Language Today
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Dolby Family Gift Launches New UCSF Center for Mood Disorders
A $20 million gift from longtime UCSF donors Dagmar Dolby and her son, David, will establish the UCSF Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders within the Department of Psychiatry.
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Forum Calls for Action on Climate Change to Protect Health
Nearly 300 hundred experts gathered at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus to discuss the global health emergency that is climate change and to call for action to protect human health and well-being.
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UCSF Receives $20 Million to Study New Tobacco Products
UCSF has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to study the impacts of new and emerging tobacco products.
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New Approach to Breast Reconstruction May Reduce Pain and Weakness for Some
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Children's Hospital Oakland at Forefront of Sickle Cell Treatment, Research
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Universal Health Care Discussion Draws Global Leaders to ZSFG
Global and local leaders—including Ban Ki-moon, Mary Robinson and Eric Goosby, MD—gathered with community members at ZSFG to discuss universal health care in California and beyond.
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‘ImmunoX’ Initiative a Radical Collaboration Across UCSF
UCSF is launching the Bakar ImmunoX Initiative, an innovative research program that will promote collaborative, cutting-edge research and data sharing to catalyze discoveries about the central role of the immune system in human health and harness its power to treat a wide range of diseases.
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Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs
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Veterans Overtreated for Blood Pressure on Leaving Hospital
One in seven older veterans with hypertension is discharged with increased blood pressure medications, despite half of those having well-controlled blood pressure prior to their hospital stay.
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HPV and Tobacco Induce Cancer Through Common Pathways
These results confirm that the HPV virus causes head and neck cancer by inactivating the same proteins that are mutated in smoking-induced cancer.
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Alexander R. Margulis, Visionary Chair of Radiology, Dies at 97
He was the heart of UCSF Radiology for the 26 years of his chairmanship, from 1963 to 1989, and led the extraordinary evolution of imaging that began with the early days of CT, MRI, US, PET-CT, interventional radiology, molecular imaging and other modalities.
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Marin General Hospital and UCSF Health Form Strategic Alliance
Marin General Hospital (MGH) and UCSF Health have formed a strategic alliance to expand clinical collaborations in Marin County.
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Sickle Cell: The Last Health-Care Frontier for Black Lives
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Primary Care is an Untapped Resource for Depression Screening
A new study has identified at-risk populations for whom depression screening combined with hazardous alcohol use screening could detect depressive symptoms that might otherwise go untreated.
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UCSF’s New Student Housing Complex Will be Called ‘The Tidelands’
The new UCSF student housing complex at 590 & 600 Minnesota Street has been officially named: UCSF Housing at the Tidelands.
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Researchers Unlock Secret of Deadly Brain Cancer’s “Immortality”
UCSF researchers have discovered how a mutation in a gene regulator called the TERT promoter confers “immortality” on tumor cells, enabling the unchecked cell division that powers their aggressive growth.
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Brain Data Could Read Moods, Potentially Treat Depression