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

  • NCCN Conference Offers a Peek into Internet Medicine's Future (Centre Daily Times)
    The Centre Times reports: "Soon the Internet may hold your medical record where you and your doctor can access it at all hours. ... Predicted roundtable participants at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network's 13th Annual Conference, March 5-9. --- The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is mentioned as a The NCCN Member institution.
  • Olympics: Asthmatic athletes fear choking in Beijing smog (Honolulu Advertiser - Online)
    The Honolulu Advertiser reports: "Athletes with exercise-induced asthma will be vulnerable in Beijing, where the air is filled with smoke from coal-fired power plants, dust kicked up by construction crews and car exhaust." John Balmes, a doctor who studies the effects of pollution on the lungs at the University of California, San Francisco, is quoted.
  • Stop and Smell the Roses: It Might Just Save Your Life (RedOrbit)
    Red Orbit reports: "A few weeks ago I attended the annual meeting of the Society of Integrative Oncology. ... At the meeting, Elissa Epel, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, presented some fascinating research about the effects of chronic stress on DNA."
  • UC protesters chain themselves to doors at regents meeting (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "Three students were arrested this morning after locking themselves to the doors of the UCSF Mission Bay community center in an attempt to prevent the University of California's Board of Regents from meeting."

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • Students protest at UC Regents meeting (KTVU Channel 2 News at 7 AM - KTVU-TV San Francisco)
    Students protested at the UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay Campus Community Center this morning, locking themselves to the building with bike chains and chanting "Free the UC." Among the students' concerns are: wages for UC workers, eliminating discriminatory SATs and eliminating fee hikes. --- Air time: 7 AM; KPIX at 8:25 and 9:30 AM and KRON4 3/18 at 11 PM

UCSF RADIO COVERAGE

  • UCSF dyslexia study (KGO-AM 810 (ABC) San Francisco)
    KGO Radio reports: "The University of California San Francisco is conducting a study on dyslexia in teenaged children. They must be between the ages of ten and sixteen years old to be in the study. They will be offered an experimental version of a medicine." Air Times: 7 and 8 AM. Duration: 00:51:59
  • Zeitlin and Jazz / Poet Laureate Al Young (KQED-FM -- Forum)
    Denny Zeitlin, jazz pianist, composer and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF, talks to Forum's Michael Krasny how people can unlock their creative impulses. California poet laureate Al Young talks about his new collection of poetry in the second half hour of the program. --- Air Time: 10 AM

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