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

  • 3-Minute Interview: Rupa (Examiner)
    The Examiner profiles UCSF hospital medicine professor and singer-songwriter Rupa Marya, whose band, Rupa & the April Fishes opened their international tour last week at the Yerba Buena Gardens. Rupa will play again in San Francisco on May 10, at El Rio in the Mission District, before heading off to Europe.
  • E.R.'s Are Busy, But Fewer Patients Are Uninsured (New York Times)
    Dr. Ellen Weber, professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues report in the April 14 issue of The Annals of Emergency Medicine, that the rise in ED visits between 1996 and 2003 can be attributed to use by insured patients.
  • Drowning in the sea of love (Pacific Sun)
    The Pacific Sun reports on a Tamalpais High School student's suicide that prompted the school to adopt a UCSF program called Project Teen Screen, directed by psychiatry professor Dr. Susan Smiga, which is aimed at helping identify teens with depression and other mental and emotional disorders.
  • Grass Valley company gets FDA OK for prostate cancer imaging device (Sacramento Business Journal)
    The Sacramento Business Journal reports: "The ei.Nav/Artemis device, developed by Eigen Corp., allows doctors to see three-dimensional images of the prostate and helps them guide the needle when they take a biopsy. It also records the precise location so doctors can return to the site for follow-up evaluation. The first Artemis systems will be used at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and University of California, San Francisco."
  • Medical Specialties Hit by a Growing Pay Gap (Wall Street Journal)
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "As a neuro-ophthalmologist, Larry Frohman diagnoses unusual visual problems and many complex nervous disorders that often baffle other doctors. He's also part of an endangered species." --- Thomas Bodenheimer, professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is quoted.

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • Blue Shield Denies New Cancer Treatment Claim (CBS 5 Eyewitness News - KPIX-TV San Francisco)
    CBS 5 reports: "An entire team of doctors at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center decided that the CyberKnife offered the only treatment that could save [Karen] Vinci's life. 'Without it,' said UCSF radiation oncologist Kim Huang, 'it's impossible to have a cure in her case.' But then Kinder and Vinci got letters from their health insurance company -- Blue Shield -- denying payment for the procedure." --- Air Times: 5 and 6 PM
  • Alzheimer's Test (CBS 5 Eyewitness News Saturday Morning - KPIX-TV)
    Dr. Michael Weiner, professor at the UCSF and VA Medical Centers, talks to CBS 5 about a new controversial at-home test for Alzheimer's disease. --- Air Times: Evening news on 5/5, 5, 6 and 11 PM, and morning news drive times on 5/6.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • UCSF to Offer Free Skin Cancer Screening Exams in Castro-Mission District on May 10 (UCSF Today)
    May is National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and each year, UCSF joins other institutions across the country in offering free skin cancer screenings to members of the public. The screenings are being held on Saturday, May 10, at the Castro-Mission Health Center, located at 3850 17th Street, San Francisco, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. No appointment is necessary.