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

  • Saliva nothing to spit at (Globe and Mail)
    Reuters reports: "Researchers from five universities -- the University of Rochester, The Scripps Research Institute, the University of Southern California, The University of California San Francisco and the University of California Los Angeles -- sought to determine the complete set of proteins secreted by the major salivary glands."
  • New Lung Association Study Shows 142 Billion Dollar Benefit Of Converting To Zero-Emission Vehicles (SpaceMart/United Press International)
    UPI reports: "According to a study sponsored by the American Lung Association of California, $142 billion in human health and global warming reduction benefits would result from converting the entire California motor vehicle fleet from gasoline vehicles to zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) technologies in the 2010-2030 timeframe, or $96 billion more than relying on the lowest emitting gasoline technologies." --- Dr. Tony Gerber, MD, Gerber, a pulmonary specialist, assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco and an American Lung Association of California volunteer, is quoted.

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • Palliative care (KQED-TV CH 9 (PBS) San Francisco -- This Week In Northern California)
    Steve Pantilat, MD, director of the Palliative Care Program at the University of California San Francisco, was a panel guest on This Week in Northern California on Friday, in a program about the growing number of palliative care programs in hospitals. --- Air Time: 7:30 PM --- [This program will be available online later this week: http://www.kqed.org/programs/tv/archive.jsp?progID=6380]
  • Nation's public hospitals in crisis (NBC Nightly News -- National)
    NBC Nightly News reports on the growing number of public hospital closures in the U.S. As dependence on safety-net medical care for uninsured and underinsured increases, San Francisco's medical system depends on the continued operation of San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), the city's only level 1 trauma center that provides expert medical care for anyone who walks through its doors. Dr. Andre Campbell, chief of medicine at SFGH and chairman of surgical education at UCSF, and Dr. Ronald Dieckmann, clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and SFGH trauma physician, describe how the trauma center struggles to keep up with demand for its services.

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