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

  • Toe dancing and pain (Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON)
    The Globe and Mail reports: "'Step off, football jocks. The ballerina needs the physical therapy table more than you do,' Sam McManis of McClatchy Newspapers writes. 'According to a recent study in the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, the annual injury rate at classical ballet companies ranges from 67 per cent to 95 per cent. '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."
  • These S.F. couples plan to retie the knot (PlanetOut.com)
    John Lewis, a lawyer, and his partner Stuart Gaffney, a project director for the University of California, San Francisco's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, are one of four couples mentioned by PlanetOut who plan to remarry "now that the California Supreme Court has overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriages."
  • You've got some nerves involved in your eating habits (USA Today)
    Kaveh Ashrafi, and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco report in the journal Cell Metabolism that "your nerves, rather than your eating habits, may have a more direct role in whether you are fat or thin."
  • 3-D Structured-Illumination Microscopy (Wired News)
    Wired reports: "There is a revolution afoot in microscopy, as biophysicists come up with ways to image the nanoscale structures of living cells. Using a new technique called 3-D structured-illumination microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have made some of the most detailed optical images yet of the interior workings of cells, and they are gorgeous." --- Click on "Technology Review: Pretty on the Inside," for the full story and slide show of cells made from the microscope.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Hope for Headaches: A Conversation with Headache Expert Peter Goadsby (Science Cafe)
    Anyone who has ever suffered from an intractable headache can understand why the ancients used to remove segments of the skull to let the evil spirits and the bad vapors escape. We don't know, of course, whether trepanation, as this form of surgery is called, actually worked. But the desperate maneuver underlines the suffering of the victim. Neurologist Peter Goadsby, MD, PhD, director of UCSF's Headache Center and a world expert on this common and often debilitating ailment, knows your pain.
  • Alumnus Receives Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award (UCSF Today)
    David Hayes-Bautista, PhD, an alumnus of UCSF, will be honored as one of three 2008 Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award recipients by the California Wellness Foundation (TCWF).