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

  • Airport 'behavior' screeners hunt for terror, but mostly find fake IDs (Associated Press)
    As a security consultant to the Transportation Security Administration, UCSF professor Paul Ekman offers expertise in spotting dangerous air travelers by their facial expressions and behavior.
  • Mary Roach's fun and enlightening look at sex research and its history (Chicago Tribune - Online)
    The Chicago Tribune reports: "Intrepid science writer Mary Roach, who has shadowed research on cadavers and the afterlife in her books 'Stiff' and 'Spook,' offers a fun, breezy but quite detailed account of sex research and its history in 'Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.'" Dr. Bob Nachtigall, an adjunct professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California at San Francisco, is quoted.
  • Tam district teens embrace suicide prevention program (Marin Independent Journal)
    The Marin IJ reports: "Jessica Heigef, a junior at Tam High School, has been the driving force behind Project Teen Screen in Marin. The program identifies teens at risk for depression, suicide, bulimia and other mental illnesses with an online questionnaire. ... Project Teen Screen was developed by psychiatry professors and students at Columbia University. UCSF has been involved with the program since 2004."
  • Family planning reduces abortions (Modesto Bee -- Letters to the Editor)
    A reader responds to "African-Americans 'vote for genocide' " (March 20, Letters): "Research by the University of California at San Francisco Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health estimates that 236,000 teen pregnancies are averted annually thanks to medically accurate sex education and access to affordable family planning services."
  • Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore Abortion (New York Times)
    The New York Times reports: " Johns Hopkins University said Friday that it had programmed its computers to ignore the word “abortion” in searches of a large, publicly financed database of information on reproductive health [called Popline] after federal officials raised questions about two articles in the database. The dean of the Public Health School lifted the restrictions after learning of them. ... Librarians at the Medical Center of the University of California, San Francisco, expressed concern about the restrictions this week after they had difficulty retrieving articles from Popline."
  • Health Database Blocked Searches on 'Abortion' (npr.org)
    NPR reports: "The world's largest database on reproductive health, POPLINE, has been blocking searches using the term "abortion" since late February. The block was removed Friday afternoon. ... One of the librarians who became aware of the block was Gloria Won at the University of California, San Francisco."
  • Sausalito Nurse is First NP to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award (Nurse.com)
    Nurse.com reports: "Mary M. Rubin, RNC, PhD, CRNP, of Sausalito has become the first nurse practitioner to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. ... Rubin works at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center as a nurse practitioner in the Dysplasia Clinic and coordinates gynecological oncology/dysplasia research in the Department of OB/GYN."
  • Healthy obsession (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Dr. Ellen Haller, psychiatry professor and director of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program at UCSF, is interviewed about her healthy obsession: Ice hockey.
  • Climbing Mount Everest was only the first step for Hillary (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "[Sir Edmond Hillary's] many Bay Area friends - mountaineers, adventurers, philanthropists - got together recently at an event hosted by financier Richard Blum to raise a glass to the man we all called 'Ed.' ... If the idea of building schools for the impoverished peoples of the Himalayas sounds a little familiar, it might be because Ed's work was the inspiration for Greg Mortenson, whose story is told in the best-seller 'Three Cups of Tea.' Mortenson, a former UCSF emergency room nurse, has built nearly 60 schools in the mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and he based his organization on the work Ed has done with the Sherpas of Nepal."
  • Olympic protests a tradition, but it's complicated (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle said: "Unfortunately, Wednesday's torch run is more complicated. In this case, no one is really wrong. Not the protesters, not the torch runners and not the members of the local Chinese community who want to support the symbol. The truth is, this is how it always seems to go. As torch runner Lisa Hartmayer, a nurse at UCSF who is running to raise awareness of worldwide climate change, said, 'This is one of the largest global events there is.' No wonder that people want to make a statement."
  • State advised to grant UCSF $38M (San Francisco Examiner -- Front page)
    The Examiner reports: "The University of California, San Francisco, has been recommended to receive $38 million from the state’s stem cell institute to fund a new research facility -- the third highest grant amount from a pool of $262 million the agency is expected to award to 12 agencies statewide." --- Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at UCSF, is quoted. [Story webpage: http://www.examiner.com/a-1324642~State_advised_to_grant_UCSF__38M.html]
  • Whole Breast Ultrasound Plus (Santa Barbara Independent)
    Lawrence P. Harter, M.D., F.A.C.R., President of Pueblo Radiology Medical Group, writes: "While recognizing Dr. Kelly for his fifteen years of work on whole breast ultrasound, and focusing attention on its importance., we note the technique and concepts are much older. I had the opportunity to work at UC San Francisco in 1981 as they developed the first automated whole breast ultrasound unit."
  • Needed a dose of compromise (The Record, Stockton)
    The Record reports: "The patient is ill. The prognosis is not good. That was the takeaway message San Joaquin County supervisors received last week about the county's General Hospital." --- UCSF is mentioned.
  • Taking up a new sport in mid-life is fun exercise, but take it carefully (34) (Waxahachie Daily Light/Associated Press)
    Associated Press writer Eileen Putman describes how she took up ice skating in her 50s, and suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall. Dr. Stephen J. DeArmond, a neuropathologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who also wrote a book about the benefits of ice skating, comments.

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • The pitfalls of bad cosmetic surgery (KGO-TV CH 7 (ABC) San Francisco -- The View From The Bay)
    Dr. Seth Matarasso, clinical professor dermatology, UCSF, discusses the dangers of cosmetic surgery -- specifically the use of injectable collagens -- and gives tips on how to protect yourself.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • UCSF Shares Results of Helicopter Noise Analysis with Community (UCSF Today)
    Demonstrating the University’s commitment to work with the community during the design and building of the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, results of a helicopter noise analysis were presented to about 25 neighbors who attended the session on March 31.