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HHS announces intent to delay ICD-10 compliance date As part of President Obama’s commitment to reducing regulatory burden, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen G. Sebelius today announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the date by which certain health care entities have to comply with International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition diagnosis and […]
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Remembering the co-ed experiment Pfoho residents uncover, celebrate history 40 years after House integration Pforzheimer House residents Suzanna Bobadilla (right) and Matt Chuchul are the primary student organizers of a one-night exhibit on Harvard’s “great co-educational experiment” called “The Residential Revolution: The History of Gender and Pfoho Student Life,” an exhibit and celebration of House […]
New subtype of ovarian cancer identified Harvard researchers believe it may be vulnerable to anti-angiogenic drugs The investigators estimate that the subtype may account for a third of all serous ovarian cancers, a common cancer of the surface of the ovaries. “With this study, we’ve shown that serous ovarian cancer exists in at least one […]
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Video: Crowdsourcing your health … … In this interesting TED Talk, Lucien Engelen, the founder and curator of TEDxMaastrict, discusses several emerging technologies that he thinks have the potential to change health care, including a crowd-sourced map of defibrillators. Engelen is also on the advisory board for the Stanford Medicine X conference this September. By John Stafford Stanford University Medical Center ### * […]
Report highlights how integrative medicine is used in the U.S. A just-released Bravewell Collaborative survey involving 29 integrative medicine centers, including Stanford, is shedding light on how this type of medicine is being practiced in the U.S. Among the findings in the report (.pdf): Chronic pain, gastrointestinal problems, depression, stress and cancer are the conditions for which complementary interventions appear most […]
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Hyman to lead Broad research center Former provost named director of Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research Steven Hyman, neuroscientist, former Harvard University provost, and former head of NIMH, has been named the new director of the Broad Institute’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. Steven E. Hyman, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist, University provost for a decade, and the former […]
UCSF to Establish Chancellor’s First-Year Graduate Fellowship Program UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is providing new funding this fall to enable the University to provide innovative and cutting-edge training for the next generation of academic science students. UCSF will offer new funding this fall to provide innovative and cutting-edge training for the next generation […]
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Affordable Care Act extended free preventive services to 54 million Americans with private health insurance in 2011 Free preventive care also provided to 32.5 million in Medicare Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the Affordable Care Act provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in […]
Improved Emergency Treatment for Prolonged Seizures SFGH and UCSF Coordinate San Francisco-wide Participation in Nationwide Study that Finds New Method Safe and Effective When a person is experiencing a prolonged convulsive seizure, quick medical intervention is critical. With every passing minute, the seizure becomes harder to stop, and can place the patient at risk of […]
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Elizabeth Boyd Named UCSF Research Integrity Officer Elizabeth Boyd, UCSF’s associate vice chancellor, Ethics and Compliance, has been named the UCSF Research Integrity Officer (RIO). Elizabeth Boyd Sally Marshall, PhD, vice provost of Academic Affairs, has served as the RIO for the last seven years. UCSF must follow procedures that comply with federal regulations. The RIO […]
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