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UCSF Health Named "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equity"
parnassus.jpg UCSF Health has been named a 2017 "Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality," receiving a perfect score on the national Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), which was released today by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the...
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Leadership
UCSF Physicians, Staff Honored by San Francisco General Hospital Foundation
2017_hearts_heroes_awardees.jpg UC San Francisco physicians and staff were among those honored by The San Francisco General Hospital Foundation in this year’s Heroes & Hearts Award, which recognizes individuals within the community who...
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Education
UCSF Receives 10-Year Accreditation Renewal from WSCUC
By Nina Bai UC San Francisco has been granted renewed accreditation from the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) for the maximum 10-year accreditation period. WSCUC accreditation ensures that an institution meets rigorous...
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Healthcare
UCSF and Johns Hopkins University Launch Digital Trove of Opioid Industry Documents
UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University today announced the launch of the Opioid Industry Documents Archive , a digital repository of publicly disclosed documents from recent judgments, settlements, and ongoing lawsuits concerning...
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Research
Adversity in Childhood May Lead to Early Aging for Women
Women who have experienced high levels of trauma in childhood, such as abuse by a parent, are biologically older at the epigenetic cellular level in adulthood than women of the same age who have not experienced such adversity, according to...
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Healthcare
A Goldilocks Dose of Coronavirus
Do masks provide a just-right amount of COVID‑19? By Allison Bond, MD UCSF Magazine Winter 2021 Infectious diseases expert Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH , explores the idea that one of the benefits of masks may be that they provide exposure to...
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SERENITY: Hope & Healing
McKinley Art Solutions and UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health are pleased to present SERENITY: Hope & Healing, featuring Radha Mehta, Debra Reabock, Kay Marshall, Michael Endicott and Catherine Gutierrez. Now in its...
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Research
Science of Aging is Focus of New Bakar Research Institute
By Alan Toth Leanne Jones, PhD, will join UCSF from UCLA to lead the new Bakar Aging Research Institute. UC San Francisco is launching the Bakar Aging Research Institute (BARI), a scientific community that aims to translate breakthroughs...
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Research
Pandemic Brings an Unexpected Twist to Alum’s Protein Discovery
First recognized for stabilizing blood pressure, ACE2 also offers a deadly handshake to the coronavirus. By Pete Farley UCSF Magazine Winter 2021 In the now ubiquitous computer-generated image of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has ricocheted...
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Research
New Test Predicts Tumors Most Likely to Respond to Radiation, Chemotherapy
Experiments Point to New Synergistic Treatment Possibilities By Jeffrey Norris A breast cancer tumor and its microenvironment is shown in a live mouse model. Image by NIH Many cancer patients might respond better to treatments with the...