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

  • Gay Calif. couples savor court's marriage ruling (Express Gay News)
    Express reports: "The California Supreme Court has made Stuart Gaffney an honest man. When Gaffney met his partner, John Lewis, at a party in San Francisco 21 years ago, Gaffney told his friends that night that he would marry that man. Thanks to the high court’s ruling Thursday, Gaffney is now able to make good on that promise." --- Gaffney, is a project director for the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at University of California in San Francisco.
  • Redding boy, family wait for signs of transplant's success (Record-Searchlight)
    Michael Woods Jr., the 9-year-old son of Redding police officer Mike Woods, diagnosed with T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, is receiving treatment after a bone-marrow transplant at UCSF Children's Hospital.
  • UCSF center wins $6.5M grant to fight medical errors (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "A highly regarded nurse leadership program at the University of California, San Francisco, has won a new $6.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. ... The new grant will help UCSF's INLP program work with hospitals to reduce medication-related errors."
  • UCSF trio hopes to draw cash with titanium tube (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "Mix three young minds with a two-inch-long tube of titanium in an entrepreneurial, science-based setting and you get a new and potentially cheaper way of delivering drugs. Now the creators of Titan Medical...hope to move their idea to market. ... The Titan trio -- UC San Francisco bioengineering Ph.D. students Lily Peng, Kayte Fischer and Mendelsohn -- have cultivated the advice and connections of an angel investor, venture capitalists and the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or QB3." --- Subscription required to access the full article.

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • Firefighters and bladder cancer (KSL-TV CH 5 (NBC) Salt Lake City)
    NBC reports: "Firefighters have a higher risk for developing bladder cancer than the general population; Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, blame smoke and chemical fumes that firefighters breathe in as the reason." --- This story also aired on NBC stations last night in Hattiesburg/Laurel, MS; Panama City, FL; Casper/Riverton, WY; Tulsa, OK; Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PN; Terre Haute, IN and Wichita Falls/Lawton(OK), TX.

UCSF RADIO COVERAGE

  • Teen Birthrate (KQED FM -- Forum)
    Forum's Michael Krasny reports: "A recent study finds that a 15 year teen birth rate decline in California has ended. Even so, California has a lower rate of teen births than demographically comparable states such as Texas. We look at the tasks ahead in reducing teen births." --- Dr. Philip Darney, professor and chief of obstetrics and gynecology at San Francisco General Hospital, and co-director at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, was a panel guest. --- Air Time: 9 AM

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