First Appeared Wednesday, 02 January '08

inSites: What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for December 2007

Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF — from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Café conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide™, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here's a handy index of the content we brought you in December on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.

Feature Stories - The Big Picture on the UCSF.edu Homepage

The Dope on Dopamine
It seems fitting that as 2007 yields to 2008, we spend a moment thinking about dopamine, one of our brain's chemical messengers -- and a key player in mood, motivation, desire and disease....

Caring for Pediatric Cancer Survivors Throughout Life
Thanks to great strides in pediatric oncology research, the rate of survivorship for children with cancer is rising. There are roughly 250,000 long-term survivors living in the United States today...

Heart of Hearts: A Conversation with Pediatric Cardiologist Harold Bernstein
Pediatric cardiologist Harold Bernstein is unlocking the secrets of how a human heart develops, how cardiac cells become specialized and how stem cells might figure in future therapy...

Leukemia Survival and Pharmacogenetics
Some leukemia cells supercharge cell pumps to get rid of chemotherapy. UCSF pharmacogenetics researcher Deanna Kroetz is aiming toward a simple way to identify these tumors, select the best treatment and avoid complications...

News Center - News and Research for the Global UCSF Community

• • Brain Imaging and Genetic Studies Link Thinking Patterns to Addiction
  
  
• • NCIRE Board of Directors Announces Changes
  
  
• • Benefits of Hospitalist Care Confirmed in New Study
  
  
• • Songbirds Offer Clues to Highly Practiced Motor Skills in Humans
  
  
• • New Strategy to Cut Heart Attack Risk is Effective in Initial Test
  
  
• • 10 Tips From a UCSF Cardiologist for a Heart-Healthy Season
  
  
• • UCSF Lands $1.4 Million Grant to Reduce Maternal Mortality Worldwide
  
  
• • Striking Shift Seen Among Newly HIV-Infected Men Regarding Partners
  
  
• • Overweight Adolescents Projected to Have More Heart Disease in Young Adulthood
  
  
• • Boys Three Times More Likely to Have Growth Delay With Crohn's
  
  
• • Special "Nutcracker" for Patients at UCSF Children's Hospital
  
  
• • UCSF Launches "Action Tank" to Advance Promising Global Health Strategies
  
  
• • UCSF Medical Center Using Newest High-Tech Tool for Brain Disorders
  
  

UCSF Today - Campus News and Events

• • School of Dentistry Names Deborah Greenspan Orofacial Sciences Chair
  
  
• • Professor Patricia Calarco is new Dean of the Graduate Division
  
  
• • Ernest Charles “Charlie” Watkins Passes Away at 83
  
  
• • Nurturing Diversity: Accomplishments, Challenges and Plans for the Future
  
  
• • Expert on Adolescents and HIV Joins UCSF AIDS Prevention Center
  
  
• • UCSF Ushers in a New Era for Autoimmune Disease Research
  
  
• • UCSF Names New Pediatric Diabetes Chair
  
  
• • Gladstone Scientists Cited in Top 50 Achievements for 2007
  
  
• • Pioneering Leader in Plastic Surgery Dies of ALS
  
  
• • Scholar Speaks About History of Medical Experimentation on African Americans
  
  
• • Bruce Alberts Named New Editor-in-Chief of Science
  
  
• • UCSF Names Environmental Sustainability Manager
  
  
• • UCSF’s Landefeld Urges End to Incontinence Stigma
  
  
• • UCSF Names Hawgood as Interim Dean of the School of Medicine
  
  
• • UC, UCSF Issue Statement About Leadership Changes at UCSF School of Medicine
  
  
• • Wanted: Donations to the San Francisco Food Bank
  
  
• • Artists to Talk About Their Works at UCSF Mission Bay
  
  
• • UCSF Presents Donations at Launch of Mayor’s Open Space Initiative
  
  
• • Universal Newborn SCID Screening Proposed
  
  
• • Two Win International Leadership Awards for Leading Fight Against HIV/AIDS
  
  
• • UCSF Medical Center Lobby Fills with Holiday Spirit
  
  
• • Nominations Sought for the Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women
  
  
• • Dean of Dentistry Search Underway
  
  
• • Africa's health care crisis extends beyond diseases
  
  
• • UCSF Trains 40 More Campus Mediators to Resolve Disputes
  
  
• • Striking Shift in Partner Selection Seen Among Newly HIV-Infected Men
  
  
• • Gladstone's Warner Greene Named President of the Academic Alliance
  
  
• • UCSF Mission Bay Symposium Honors Biotech Pioneer William Rutter
  
  
• • UCTV Showcases UCSF’s Three-Part Transplant Series
  
  
• • Leader of World Institute on Disability Provides Insight into Challenges Facing Disabled
  
  

Science Café - Weekly Conversations About the Culture, Conduct and Community of Science

• • Dec 14, Heart of Hearts: A Conversation with Pediatric Cardiologist Harold Bernstein (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • Dec 7, Speaking of Science: Can We Talk? You Tell Me (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast in iTunes
  
  
• • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast and feed in your preferred newsreader

UCSF People / UCSF Blogs - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students in Their Own Words

• Meet New UCSF Faculty

inSites – Highlighting Stories from UCSF and Other UCSF Websites

• • Africa's Health Care Crisis Extends Beyond Diseases
  advancing health worldwide™
  
  
• • Pediatric Heart Patients a World Apart
  advancing health worldwide™
  
  
• • What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007

Spotlight / Multimedia - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students "on the Air"

Nurturing Diversity: Accomplishments, Challenges and Plans for the Future

UCTV Showcases UCSF’s Three-Part Transplant Series

UCSF Science Café 56: A Conversation with Harold Bernstein

UCSF Science Café 55: Speaking of Science

FYI... UCSF in the News - Daily summary of news stories that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University

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