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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

  • Correction: Microbes May Threaten Lengthy Spaceflights (Washington Post)
    Correction: Tuesday's FYI, and the UCSF Directory, incorrectly list the title for Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford as associate chief of staff at the UCSF VAMC. The associate chief of staff for research at the UCSF VAMC is Dr. Lynn Pullliam. Dr. Hughes-Fulford's correct title is: senior researcher in the medical service at the UCSF VAMC, scientific advisor to the Undersecretary of the Dept of Veterans Affairs, and adjunct professor of medicine at UCSF. Millie Hughes-Fulford was quoted in a Washington Post story Monday that examined decreased immune function in astronauts.
  • Trial of Cholesterol Drug Gets House Scrutiny (New York Times)
    The New York Times reports: "A Congressional committee is investigating Merck and Schering-Plough for their handling of a critical clinical trial of Zetia, their blockbuster cholesterol-lowering drug." -- Dr. Michael Crawford, interim chief of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, is mentioned.
  • Group warns that nurses face health risks from chemical exposure (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "The very chemicals used to keep hospitals squeaky clean and to treat patients could be harmful to nurses who are exposed to them in their daily duties, according to a study released Tuesday by an Oakland environmental group." -- Lisa Hartmayer, a registered nurse at UCSF, is quoted.
  • Best of California 2007 (California Construction Magazine)
    Anshen + Allen, the architect group building the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, was selected as Architect of the Year in California Construction's "Best of 2007" list recognizing architecture projects in California. Anshen + Allen is an international architectural firm specializing in healthcare, academic and research buildings. -- [The article is on Page 25]

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • How accurate are diagnostic mammograms (CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 5 PM - KPIX-TV)
    CBS 5 reports: "Radiologists who specialize in mammograms often do the best job of identifying when a biopsy is required." -- UCSF Researcher Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, and Dr. Laura Esserman, director of the Breast Care Center at UCSF, are interviewed. Air Time: 5 PM

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (UCSF.edu -- inSites)
    The UCSF main page features the website: Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, whose mission is to "decrease ethnic and racial disparities in health by focusing attention on healthy aging among older minority populations."
  • Artists to Talk About Their Works at UCSF Mission Bay (UCSF Today)
    UCSF Today reports: "Four California-based artists will talk about their recent installations at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Thursday, Dec. 13. The UCSF Mission Bay Art Planning Committee is hosting a panel discussion with the artists at 4 p.m. in Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall, 600 16th St."

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

  • TARP auxiliary subunits switch AMPA receptor antagonists into partial agonists. (Science)
    Karen Menuz,1,2 Robert M. Stroud,3* Roger A. Nicoll,1,4* Franklin A. Hays,3 -- 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. 2Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. 3 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. 4 Department of Physiology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. -- * To whom correspondence should be addressed: stroud@msg.ucsf.edu (R.M.S.); nicoll@cmp.ucsf.edu (R.A.N.)
  • A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity. (Nature)
    Robert C. Froemke1, Michael M. Merzenich1 & Christoph E. Schreiner1 -- 1. Coleman Memorial Laboratory and W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Otolaryngology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA -- Correspondence to: Robert C. Froemke1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to R.C.F. (Email: rfroemke@phy.ucsf.edu).
  • Force-induced bidirectional stepping of cytoplasmic Dynein. (Cell)
    Arne Gennerich1, Andrew P. Carter1, Samara L. Reck-Peterson1 and Ronald D. Vale1, -- 1The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158-2200, USA -- Received 3 April 2007; revised 24 July 2007; accepted 8 October 2007. Published: November 29, 2007. Available online 29 November 2007.
  • Adolescent overweight and future adult coronary heart disease. (New England Journal of Medicine, The)
    Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D., Pamela Coxson, Ph.D., Mark J. Pletcher, M.D., M.P.H., James Lightwood, Ph.D., and Lee Goldman, M.D., M.P.H. -- From the Departments of Medicine (K.B.-D., P.C., M.J.P.), Epidemiology and Biostatistics (K.B.-D., M.J.P.), and Pharmacy (J.L.), University of California, San Francisco; and the Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital (K.B.-D.) -- all in San Francisco; and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York (L.G.). -- Address reprint requests to Dr. Bibbins-Domingo at the University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave., Box 1364, San Francisco, CA 94143, or at bibbinsk@medicine.ucsf.edu.

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