Articles tagged with: university of california
State Economy to Get Big Jolt with Proposed New Tax on Cigarettes, Study Finds Voters to Consider State Ballot Measure on June 5 A new UCSF analysis has found that a state ballot initiative to increase the cigarette tax would create about 12,000 jobs and nearly $2 billion in new economic activity in California. […]
In Autism, Gene Findings May Help Explain Biology and Guide Drug Discovery Hear Audio UCSF’s Lauren Weiss talks about autism and its prevalence: Autism and related disorders that profoundly affect behavior and development are diagnosed more often today than ever before. But despite its rising profile in the media and in the minds of parents, […]
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From the Balance Beam to the State Bar. UCSF Patient Turns Life-Threatening Condition into Source of Strength. Angelica Galang loves competition. Feisty and determined for as long as she can remember, Galang became interested in gymnastics at the age of four after watching the U.S. women’s team win the team bronze medal at the 1992 […]
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Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost. Analysis of Kenya Study Shows Simultaneously Confronting HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Waterborne Illness Improves Health. A volunteer in 2008 shows people from the Lurambi District in Western Kenya how to use incecticide-treated bednets to prevent the spread of malaria during the Integrated Prevention Demonstration Campaign […]
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Male and Female Behavior Deconstructed. UCSF Team Uncovers Genes Influenced by Sex Hormones that Control Masculine and Feminine Behaviors in Mice. … How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of collecting pups, and […]
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What Patients Talk About When They Talk About Doctors. UCSF Analysis of Online Physician Reviews Shows Patients Generally Rate Doctors Positively, But Care About More than Just Health Care. An analysis of hundreds of reviews posted to physician-rating sites on the Internet revealed that patients generally give their doctors favorable reviews in this forum. If […]
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Vigorous Exercise Linked to Gene Activity in Prostate. UCSF Discovery Sheds Light on How Robust Exercise May Lower Risk of Prostate Cancer Progression. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified nearly 200 genes in the healthy prostate tissue of men with low-grade prostate cancer that may help explain how physical activity […]
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Goals for Blood Pressure in Kidney Disease Patients May Be Unrealistic, Suggests Study One Third of Kidney Patients Have Uncontrolled Hypertension, Study Also Shows An upward revision of the blood pressure numbers used to identify risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) might actually help doctors provide better care for their patients, said the authors of […]
Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden … The Toxic Truth About Sugar with Robert Lustig, MD Robert H. Lustig, MD, and a team of UCSF researchers argue that sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health. In a new report, they maintain that sugar is fueling a […]
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UCSF’s New Dean Wants to Raise Profile of Graduate Education Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, has been named dean of the UCSF Graduate Division UCSF has named Elizabeth Watkins, an eclectic, prolific and versatile historian of science, as the dean of the Graduate Division, effective April 1. Watkins, PhD, is director of graduate studies for the History […]
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