A video depicting the four recipients of the UCSF Medal was featured at the Founders Day banquet at the-Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco last night.
In the first interview with health policy expert Helene Levens Lipton, PhD, Professor of Health Policy in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy and the Institute for Health Policy Studies, she outlined the threat to independent pharmacies posed by slow and reduced reimbursement.
A study in the April 22, 2006, issue of Lancet finds that estimated conservatively, the economic benefit in the United States from just eight National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials exceeded $15 billion over the course of 10 years.
UCSF Home Health Care has announced that it is partnering with Lumetra, Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) in California and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Care Policy and Research (CHCPR) in a demonstration project aimed at reducing the number of avoidable hospitalizations for home health patients.
Faculty clinicians from the schools of dentistry, medicine and nursing are welcome to attend a continuing education course on the implications of periodontal medicine in clinical practice.
Latina mothers of preschool-aged children frequently have inaccurate perceptions of their children's body mass index and believe they are healthy when they are overweight, according to a new study from the University of California, San Francisco.