FYI UCSF -- 07/09/2009

Are pay cuts the only solution?

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:36:00 -0400

Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle

Healthcare reform gets boost from hospital groups

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:30:00 -0400

Outlet: Los Angeles Times

Final Week to Join AIDS Walk San Francisco

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:12:00 -0400

Outlet: UCSF Today

Biden announces White House deal with hospitals

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:43:00 -0400

Outlet: ABC 7 Morning News at 5 AM - KGO-TV

THE SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS LEVELING SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE FORMER CHANCELLOR AND TWO CURRENT ADMINISTRATORS AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO. THE CHARGES FOLLOW A LONG INVESTIGATION AND A RAID IN MAY. KAMALA HARRIS SAYS THE MEN USE

Biotech industry pumps millions into state, national economies

Pete Bach ? Gannett Wisconsin Media ? — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Herald Times Reporter, WI

BROTHERTOWN The corn crop sprouting on Bill Hansen's 150-acre farm in Calumet County has a secret: It's fortified with special traits at the microscopic level. Such genetic alterations begin with the corn seed, which allows it to grow into a pla

Brave little girl inspires her equally brave mother

Jeff Jardine — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Modesto Bee

Christina Vega's first birthday party Saturday afternoon will include all of the trimmings. Cake and ice cream and presents. Balloons and 60 to 70 guests. Maybe some of those goofy little cone-shaped party hats. "We're celebrating life," grandma T

Changes reduced infections from medical abortion

Amanda Gardner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: WFMJiTV -- Youngstown, OH

WEDNESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- Two changes to the way Planned Parenthood clinics perform medical abortion resulted in a 93 percent drop in the rate of serious infections, a new report says. The changes involved administering the drug misopr

For America's aged, surgery at any price?

MARIE MCCULLOUGH — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Sacramento Bee/Philadelphia Inquirer

Fast-forward to 2003, when Bridges led an analysis of a national database of open-heart procedures, including almost 60,000 octogenarians, 1,092 nonagenarians, and five centenarians. Surgery-related mortality had fallen to 12 percent - and that was f

'Rare' Disease Raises Issues of Probability, Diagnosis

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Wall Street Journal

It was so meaningful to finally see a nonmedical textbook article about the little known condition fibromuscular dysplasia (',' page one, June 27). In the 1960s I worked as an X-ray technologist at the University of California Medical Center in San F

The Fate of Frozen Embryos

Laura Bell — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Parenting

What should you do with the extra eggs after in vitro fertilization? Consider these options, and meet couples who are making the same tough decision. These questions will help judge the state of your fertility - Parenting.com A few things to ke

UC San Diego profs come up with budget fixer Close UC Merced

DANIELLE GAINES — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Merced Sun-Star

UC Merced is the target of a group of 23 San Diego professors who have proposed the University of California shutter the campus to save money. The proposal was written as a letter to leaders at the UC San Diego campus and University Office of the

Stem cell discovery

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:00:00 -0400

Outlet: KTVU Channel 2 News At 5

Change cuts infections linked to abortion pill

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:44:00 -0400

Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle

As Population Ages, More Dementia

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:13:00 -0400

Outlet: KCBS-AM News Radio San Francisco

Young scientists feted at Buck center for age research Alzheimer's conference

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: Novato Advance

The 2009 Alzheimers Association Awards for Excellence in Research on Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders recognizes promising discoveries in Alzheimer-related basic biomedical, patient-oriented or social/behavioral research made by students enro

Jack Lampl Orchard, 41; entrepreneur, financier, fighter

Gloria S. Ross — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Outlet: St. Louis Beacon

- - When Jack Orchard knew his long fight with ALS was nearing an end, he set up the Jack Orchard Memory Blog and invited his friends to share stories about the times we spent together. He imposed only one rule: Please make sure to share the times wh