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.

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  • Anonymous charitable giving has pros and cons (Advance Leader, The)
    An analysis by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found 37 gifts of at least $5 million were made in 2007 by donors who did not want their names publicly announced, up from 27 in 2006 and 13 in 2004.The single largest anonymous gift in 2007 was $150 million to the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California at San Francisco for use in cancer research, patient care and recruitment of doctors and scientists.
  • Harold Pollack Universal Coverage and the Presidential Candidates' Health Care Proposals (Huffington Post, The)
    The leading Democratic and Republican candidates for president have proposed major changes to our health care system. These proposals are worthy of serious consideration. Rising medical costs threaten our country's long-term fiscal stability. And our failure to provide health insurance to 47 million Americans is cause for shame. Daniel Lowenstein, MD , Philip Rosenthal, Wade Smith, MD, PhD S. and Claiborne Johnston, MD, PhD were signers of a health reform letter.
  • Swiss AIDS finding shocks experts (Newsday)
    Swiss AIDS experts said yesterday that some people with HIV who meet strict conditions and are under treatment can safely have unprotected sex with noninfected partners. Jay Levy, director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research at the University of California in San Francisco, was quoted.
  • Acting Globally, Living Locally (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Anti-malaria efforts yield new success (Washington Post)
    Widespread use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and state-of-the-art drugs has succeeded in cutting malaria deaths in half in two countries most heavily affected by the disease, the World Health Organization is reporting today. Richard G.A. Feachem, former director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria who is now the director of the Global Health Group at the University of California at San Francisco, was quoted.

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