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Latest news releases
- November 6, 2009
Killing in war associated with PTSD and behavioral and adjustment problems
In a study of 1,200 veterans of the Vietnam war, those who reported taking a life in combat had a higher incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder, violent behaviors, trouble with daily functioning, and other psychological problems than those who did not, even decades after their war experience.
- November 6, 2009
UCSF Medical Center & UCSF Children’s Hospital change visitor policy to limit spread of H1N1 flu
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children’s Hospital are implementing a temporary change to their visitor policy due to a recent increase in cases of H1N1 flu and the potential for the virus to spread.
- November 5, 2009
UCSF forum launches UC Global Health Institute, reports state impact
UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will host a public forum titled, “A Center of Excellence for Global Health: Why Global Health Matters to California.” The event will focus on the future of U.S. and California leadership in global health and the release of a report on the multi-billion-dollar impact of global health on California.
- November 5, 2009
Federal stimulus funds support studies geared to improving HIV care and prevention
UCSF HIV researchers have received two NIH grants of $1 million each to study the use of web-based, patient controlled personal health records to improve health and HIV prevention outcomes for HIV positive patients.
- November 5, 2009
Physical education key to improving health in low-income adolescents
School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
- November 2, 2009
Heart disease effects perceived as more acute by people with PTSD
In a study of 1,022 men and women with heart disease, those with post-traumatic stress disorder perceived the effects of their disease as more burdensome and disabling than did those without PTSD, even when their actual heart health was no worse by objective measures.
- November 2, 2009
Aga Khan University & UCSF form partnership to help underprivileged
UCSF and the Aga Khan University signed a memorandum of understanding today to advance their common goal to promote equitable human advancement and social justice in the less privileged parts of the world.
- October 28, 2009
UCSF diabetes, brain tumor stem cell grants to drive development of therapies
Two teams of UCSF scientists have received grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance their stem cell based strategies for treating diabetes and brain tumors. The intent of the grants is for teams to file new drug applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within four years, driving potential therapies toward clinical trials.
- October 27, 2009
UCSF and Gladstone Institutes among best places to work in academia
UCSF and the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes have been named among the top 10 best places to work in U.S. academia, according to 2009 survey results announced today by “The Scientist” magazine. The magazine ranks UCSF as the second best academic work setting and the Gladstone Institutes as sixth.
- October 26, 2009
Seed fund for UC bioscience companies launches at Mission Bay
The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is collaborating with a newly launched $7.5 million fund to provide startup capital for University of California bioscience entrepreneurs and a long-term endowment for QB3.
- October 23, 2009
Media briefing: UCSF police respond about officer death
The UCSF Chief of Police will hold a media briefing regarding the vehicular death this morning of UCSF Police Officer Edson Veloro, offering comments on Detective Veloro’s outstanding service to UCSF. A limited status report will also be available on the condition of Police Dispatcher Art Dragon, who was also in the accident and was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital early this morning.
- October 22, 2009
UCSF wins consumer choice award for San Francisco hospitals
UCSF Medical Center has been named the winner of the 2009-2010 “Consumer Choice Award” for hospitals in San Francisco by the National Research Corporation, a major healthcare performance research firm. Local consumers rated UCSF as the number one choice for quality healthcare among all hospitals in San Francisco.
- October 20, 2009
PTSD increases risk of death one year after surgery
A study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco offers evidence that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder have a significantly lower survival rate one year after surgery than veterans without the diagnosis, even though the veterans with PTSD were seven years younger on average.
- October 20, 2009
Experts issue call to reconsider screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer
Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancer for women and men – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.”
- October 13, 2009
Kaiser, UCSF awarded $25 million from NIH to build resource for genetic research
The Kaiser Permanente Research Program on Genes, Environment, and Health (RPGEH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have been awarded $24.8 million over two years by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a new resource for studying disease, health, and aging.
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