Slideshow: Back to School 2016
From the first School of Nursing white coat ceremony to the 10th annual block party at Mission Bay, the 2016 back-to-school season was jam-packed with events. View the slideshow for more of the
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UCSF Incoming Class 2016: By the Numbers
This fall, UCSF welcomes nearly 1,000 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
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Teaching Future Health Care Providers Lessons in Uncertainty
UCSF schools either have implemented or are developing new curricula with the goal of equipping students with the tools and strategies to make wise, evidence-based decisions in real-world clinical situations – where answers are not always found in textbooks.
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Back to School 2016
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Human Neuron Transplants Treat Spinal Cord Injury in Mice
Chronic pain and loss of bladder control are among the most devastating consequences of spinal cord injury.
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Moderate Alcohol Use Linked to Heart Chamber Damage, Atrial Fibrillation in New Study
A new study by UCSF researchers found that even moderate alcohol consumption may change the structure of the heart in ways that increase the risk of atrial fibrillation.
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3 Leading Bay Area Research Universities to Partner in $600M Chan Zuckerberg Medical Science 'Biohub'
UCSF, Stanford and UC Berkeley will join forces in a new biomedical science research center funded by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan.
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Joe DeRisi on How the Biohub Will Create Opportunities for Research Collaboration
Joe DeRisi, co-director of the new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub at Mission Bay, speaks about his vision for the Biohub and what researchers can look forward to.
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Zuckerberg, Chan to spend $3 billion on curing disease
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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion effort aimed at curing disease
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‘Video Game’ More Accurate than Standard Tests at ID’ing Kids with Attention Deficits, Study Shows
A digital assessment platform designed to look and feel like a video game may successfully flag children with attention disorders.
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Mothers of Children with Autism May Face Higher Risks for Heart Disease
Mothers who were raising children with autism and reported chronic stress were more likely to have high levels of “bad” cholesterol and lower levels of protective progenitor cells.
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UCSF Plans Events for National Cyber Security Awareness Month
In order to help UCSF faculty, staff, students and trainees protect their and UCSF’s digital information, the University is celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month with a series of events that run through October.
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Endocrine Society Awards Walter L. Miller Its Lifetime Achievement Award
Walter L. Miller, distinguished professor emeritus and former chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCSF, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the Endocrine Society.
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Sudden Neurological Death Misclassified, Underestimated
UCSF researchers have devised a new term, “sudden neurological death,” to describe apparent sudden cardiac deaths that actually were due to neurological causes.
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UCSF Responds to Concerns About Safety and Security After Series of Town Halls
During National Campus Safety Awareness Month, UCSF reminds faculty, staff, students and trainees that it’s incumbent on everyone to be vigilant and to be informed about what’s happening during an emergency situation.
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Jennifer Rosko: Building an Environment for Students to Thrive
Jennifer Rosko, the director of Student Involvement and Programs at UCSF, has worked to create the structure and atmosphere for students to foster interprofessional relationships, thrive and be successful.
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San Francisco, Oakland Join Forces to Support Children with Cancer
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are bringing together the cities of San Francisco and Oakland this week, as well as each city’s baseball team, to raise awareness of pediatric cancer.
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UCSF Fresno Launches Two New Training Programs
UCSF Fresno recently launched two new training programs: the UCSF Fresno Hematology/Oncology Fellowship and the UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program.
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UCSF to Offer Free Flu Shots as Influenza Season Nears
UCSF will be holding free drop-in flu shot clinics for its employees, students and volunteers starting Monday, Sept. 19.
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How the sugar industry has distorted health science for more than 50 years
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Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
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How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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UCSF's Bruce Alberts Wins Lasker-Koshland Award for Lifetime of Research, Science Advocacy
UCSF biochemist Bruce Alberts has received the 2016 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, one of the highest honors in biomedicine.
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Bruce Alberts on Why Biomedical Research Needs Rescuing
Bruce Alberts and a group of prominent scientists have begun the Rescuing Biomedical Research initiative to fix what they see as systemic flaws in the current biomedical research enterprise.
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Altering gut microbes of babies could prevent asthma and allergies
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Richard Feachem to Receive Hewitt Award from Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine will present the Richard T. Hewitt Award for distinguished achievement in the improvement of human health to Richard Feachem, director of the Global Health Group at the UCSF Global Health Sciences
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Buster Posey to Visit UCSF Patients in Honor of Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
San Francisco Giants’ catcher Buster Posey will be meeting with patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco this week, in honor of National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.
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Newborn Gut Microbiome Predicts Later Allergy and Asthma, Study Finds
Gut microbes present in some one-month-old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergic reactions by age two and asthma by age four.
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Sugar Papers Reveal Industry Role in Shifting National Heart Disease Focus to Saturated Fat
A newly discovered cache of industry documents revealed that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and to downplay evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.
