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

  • Valley must demand a med school here -- Editorial (Fresno Bee)
    The Fresno Bee writes: "With population growing at twice the state rate, access to health care in the region continues to worsen. We must produce more physicians to keep up with our aging, diverse and rapidly growing population. The best way to do that is by building a medical school in the Valley. ... The site of the first clinical campus is envisioned to be in Fresno, where UC San Francisco Fresno Medical Education Program already provides clinical opportunities for medical residents and students."

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • New Fertility Alternative (NBC11 News: The Bay Area At 11 -- KNTV San Francisco)
    NBC 11 examines the growing number of people who are adopting leftover embroyos from invitro fertilization clinics. Dr. Marcelle Cedars, MD, UCSF Center for Reproductive Health, talked about the importance of obtaining parental consent before adopting embryos. 00:19:46 --- Air Time: 11 PM
  • Popcorn flavoring a health risk (KTVU-TV CH 2 (FOX) San Francisco)
    Investigative reporting by the The Seattle Post Intelligencer found a chemical additive Diacetyl in the butter flavoring in microwave and movie popcorn can cause severe lung problems. Dr. Robert Harrison, UCSF Medical Center, told KTVU the lung damage can cause scaring and destruction of the lung tissue. Food service unions in the U.S. and Congress are calling on OSHA to ban Diacetyl. 00:34:41 --- Air Time: 10 PM
  • Best Friend Gives Gift of Life (ABC News 10 -- Sacramento)
    Derek Lee Lubag of Tracy, will receive a kidney, donated from his long-time friend Frank Celentano, at UCSF Medical Center on February 29. --- This story also aired on KTVU-TV CH 2 (FOX) San Francisco at 5 PM, yesterday.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • University of California to Establish School of Global Health (UCSF Today)
    "The University of California is working toward the unprecedented step of establishing an interdisciplinary, solution-seeking school of global health with Haile Debas, MD, executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences, as one of its major champions," reports UCSF Today Editor Lisa Cisneros.
  • Experimental MS drug shows promise, offers new window on disease (UCSF News Office)
    Stephen L. Hauser, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues report in the New England Journal of Medicine that "a drug therapy currently used to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis had a significant effect in treating the most common form of multiple sclerosis in a small, short-term clinical trial," said Jennifer O'Brien in the UCSF News Office.

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

  • HIV helpers can be hijacked (Nature)
    Quoted: Paul Volberding, co-director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California, San Francisco.
  • Nurse staffing levels: impact of organizational characteristics and registered nurse supply. (Health Services Research)
    Mary A. Blegen1 -- School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 2 Koret, #0608, Room N707B, San Francisco, CA 94143-0608, *, Thomas Vaughn2 -- Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA and , and Carol P. Vojir3 -- School of Nursing, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences, Denver, CO --- Address correspondence to Mary A. Blegen, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Professor in Community Health System and Director of the Center for Patient Safety, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, 2 Koret, #0608, Room N707B, San Francisco, CA 94143-0608. Thomas Vaughn, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Masters Programs, is with the Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Carol P. Vojir, Ph.D., Associate Professor, emerita, is with the School of Nursing, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences, Denver, CO.
  • Molecular biology. The art of assembly. (Science)
    Perspective commentary by Francis Szoka. The author is in the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0446, USA. E-mail: szoka@cgl.ucsf.edu.
  • Reviewers for the Journal, July -- December 2007 (New England Journal of Medicine, The)
    The NEJM writes: "Each year thousands of reviewers contribute their expertise to peer review, a process that contributes critically to the quality of the Journal. The editors and the authors of the papers submitted to the Journal are grateful for the help of all our reviewers. Here we acknowledge, with special thanks, those who reviewed two or more papers between July and December 2007." --- Stephen L. Hauser, chair of neurology at UCSF, is listed.

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