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UC San Francisco Relaunches ‘Mission in a Minute’
After a six-month hiatus, UC San Francisco’s popular “Mission in a Minute” series has returned. Created as a way for researchers, clinicians, educators and others to communicate directly with their respective audience, the one-minute video series showcases the work they are doing at UCSF, its significance and how it relates to the overall mission at UCSF.
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UCSF Team Learns More About Why Airway Closes Up During Asthma Attacks
The molecular regulation of smooth-muscle contraction is an important determinant of airway responses during an acute asthmatic attack. In acute asthma, various triggers, including viral illnesses and aeroallergens, can cause acute narrowing of the airways leading to a life-threatening respiratory crisis and sometimes death.
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Immune Cells May Help Treat Muscular Dystrophy, UCSF-Led Team Finds
A scientific team led by UCSF researchers found that regulatory T cells, a specialized subset of immune cells, suppress inflammation and muscle injury in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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UCSF Medical Center Earns Perfect Score for Health Care Equality
UCSF Medical Center has become the only U.S. institution to receive a perfect score on the national LGBT Healthcare Equality Index for seven consecutive years.
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$18 Billion Tobacco Toll in California
Smoking took an $18.1 billion toll in California – $487 for each resident – and was responsible for more than one in seven deaths in the state, according to the first comprehensive analysis in more than a decade on the financial and health impacts of tobacco.
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UCSF Team Learns More About Why Airway Closes Up During Asthma Attacks
The molecular regulation of smooth-muscle contraction is an important determinant of airway responses during an acute asthmatic attack. In acute asthma, various triggers, including viral illnesses and aeroallergens, can cause acute narrowing of the airways leading to a life-threatening respiratory crisis and sometimes death.
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Study: Tobacco use toll drops in California, but smoking still more deadly than AIDS
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Ronald McDonald House expanding in San Francisco
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New Miniature Device Monitors Heart Failure Patients Remotely
UCSF is the first medical center in the western United States to offer the miniature wireless CardioMEMS HF System implant, which enables heart patients to be monitored daily in the comfort of their own home.
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NIH Launches UCSF Developed Course for Life Science Entrepreneurs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched a pilot program to help life science entrepreneurs commercialize their technology, based on a course developed at UC San Francisco. The Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF and Steve Blank, architect of the Lean LaunchPad framework, first taught the course last fall. UCSF and Blank adopted the Lean LaunchPad methodology to be applicable for life science and healthcare ventures.
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Ethnicity could have role in susceptibility to asthma
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Microscopic Monsters and More at the Bay Area Science Festival
Sakanari, PhD, is opening her lab for a public tour as a part of the Bay Area Science Festival on Sunday Oct. 26 at 2pm. It’s one of many free tours offered as a part of the festival’s Explorer Days. The Bay Area Science Festival features over 50 events open to the public from Oct. 23 to Nov. 1.
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Hospitals rethinking precautions in wake of nurse’s Ebola infection
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UCLA study offers hope on emergency room crowding
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Freezing Eggs as Part of Employee Benefits: Some Women See Darker Message
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UCSF-Developed Entrepreneurship Course for Life Scientists Launched by NIH
The National Institutes of Health has launched a pilot program to help life science entrepreneurs commercialize their technology, based on a course developed by UCSF.
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Financial and Administrative Services Seeks Feedback on Its Services
Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a biannual customer satisfaction survey starting Oct. 27. UC San Francisco's Financial and Administrative Services (FAS) is seeking feedback on its services.
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Americans have 14 million smoking-related ailments: study
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Precise Control Over Genes Results from Game-Changing Research
The application of a new, precise way to turn genes on and off within cells is likely to lead to a better understanding of diseases and possibly to new therapies, according to UCSF scientists.
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UC Berkeley, UCSF launch neurodegenerative disease research center
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Bay Area Procedures Already In Place; CDC Urges U.S. Hospitals To Look For Ebola Symptoms
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Americans have 14 million smoking-related ailments: study
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Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation names new president
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What Ebola error in Dallas shows: Column
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In Kentfield, cape-making crusaders join forces for sick kids
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Unrelenting stress changes our bodies, affects our health
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Doctors’ pay for unapproved prostate cancer device raises ethical questions
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UCSF Ebola Preparedness Harkens Back To Early Days Of AIDS
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UCSF’s New Mission Bay Hospital Facilities State-of-the-Art