FYI…UCSF in the News is a daily summary of news stories published worldwide that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University.  To read the full news story, click the individual headlines listed below.

On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • UCSF Begins Project to Transform Nursing Home Care (NurseWeek)
    NurseWeek reports: "The UCSF/John A. Hartford Center for Geriatric Nursing Excellence has kick-started a project designed to improve nursing home care. ... UCSF Professor Charlene Harrington, RN, PhD, FAAN, who is co-leading the university’s portion of the collaborative."
  • The power of pet therapy (NurseWeek)
    Izzy, the therapy dog at UCSF Children's Hospital, has made it onto the front cover of NurseWeek this week (http://www.nurse.com/california/). The magazine reports on the healing effects animals have on patients, and spotlights Izzy and the animal therapy program at UCSF Children's Hospital developed by Jim O’Brien, RN, patient care manager of the pediatric oncology, bone marrow transplant, and rehab unit, and Lila Param, RN, MS, director of pediatric patient care services at UCSF Children's Hospital.
  • Saving St. Lukes from Sutter: the "Beyond Medicine, Beyond Belief" System (Beyond Chron)
    Beyond Chron reports: "Last Friday afternoon, 5500 CNA/NNOC nurses of Sutter Health, the "Beyond Medicine" system, decided to strike the system again. On December 13th and 14th, Registered Nurses will hit the streets outside all 13 Sutter facilities in solidarity with each other, their lack of a decent contract and the closure of three of their sister facilities." -- UCSF is mentioned.
  • Newly HIV-Infected Gay Men Select Other Infected Partners (Washington Post)
    Wayne Steward, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, and colleagues present a study today at the 2007 National HIV Prevention Conference finding "most men newly infected with HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) choose to have unprotected sex only with other HIV-infected partners," said the Washington Post.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • UCSF Trains 40 More Campus Mediators to Resolve Disputes (UCSF Today)
    "During this holiday season and throughout the year, a team of newly trained UCSF mediators will do their part to keep the peace -- helping to resolve disputes in the workplace," reports UCSF Today editor Lisa Cisneros.
  • Striking Shift in Partner Selection Seen Among Newly HIV-Infected Men (UCSF Today -- News & Special Features)
    "New data from six U.S. sites show a dramatic shift by men acutely infected with HIV to choose to have unprotected intercourse only with other HIV-infected partners," reports Jeff Sheehy, communications director at the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF.
  • inSites: What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007 (UCSF Today)
    Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF -- from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Cafe conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here's a handy index of the content we brought you in November on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.