Registration is underway for the San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Training Program to be offered for free to UCSF staff.
Patients who initiate a general discussion about the need for antidepressant medication with their primary care physician are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand-specific request or no request
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has received a $3.7 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to fund an innovative program that will help underserved elderly Californians learn about and select from Medicare prescription drug plans.
Second-year medical student Harras Zaid has seen his share of organ transplants. Under the wing of UCSF transplant surgeons, he has traveled to distant hospitals to observe as the body of a person whose life has ended gives up the organs that will save or enhance many other lives.
Those interested in offering children a look behind the scenes at this health sciences campus are invited to learn more about Kids at UCSF Day on Monday.
Ilene B. Anderson, PharmD, reports in the December Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine that the number of California teenagers using over-the-counter cough medicines to get high has soared in recent years, mirroring a national trend.
The UCSF Spine Center recently acquired a new imaging system that will assist surgeons in navigation techniques and help the center expand and enhance surgical procedures. The technology is the first of its kind in the western United States.