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

  • Plie-ing in pain: Sacramento Ballet dancers often perform -- gracefully -- with injuries (Sacramento Bee)
    The Sacramento Bee reports: "Ballet deals in the illusion of control and ease of movement. But the leaps and lifts, the hip turnouts and grand pliés, and sheer repetition of steps and stretches places ballet near the top of a list of physically demanding activities, according to a landmark 1975 Journal of Sports Medicine survey. ... According to a recent study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Sports Physical Therapy, the annual injury rate at classical ballet companies ranges from 67 percent to 95 percent. 'And those are just the injuries in which (dancers) had to take a day off,' says Dr. Nancy Kadel, an orthopedic surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco and a former ballet dancer. 'That's not counting the pain they dance through daily.'"
  • Medicare patients don't understand drug plan (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "Medicare beneficiaries have only a limited understanding of their prescription drug benefit and often skip or reduce doses because of high drug costs, according to a study of Northern California Kaiser patients published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association. ... Researchers from Kaiser, UCSF and Harvard University in 2007 interviewed 1,040 beneficiaries in Kaiser's Northern California Medicare Advantage program."

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • New bionic eye implants help patients regain sight (CBS 5 San Francisco)
    CBS 5 reports that USC scientists have developed a bionic eye, consisting of a camera built into eyeglasses and an implant behind the retina, that has restored sight in two patients. UCSF is one of two sites in California now involved in a clinical trial for the next generation of bionic eye, a camera transplanted into the eyeball. --- Air Time: 5 PM

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Video doc helps HIV-positive patients reduce risky behaviors (UCSF News Office)
    A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed and tested the intervention.
  • School of Nursing’s Estes to Be Honored at Symposium (UCSF Today)
    The UCSF Institute for Health Aging and the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health invite the campus community to attend a symposium honoring Carroll L. Estes, PhD.