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

  • Engle Receives Prestigious UC Davis Award (CBS Sports Network)
    UC Davis senior quarterback Matt Engle is winner of the V. Glenn Winslow Jr. Award. Fellow Aggie football player Chris Jones received the award in 2005, and is currently completing his third year of medical school at UC San Francisco.
  • California's big day for love, law (Chicago Tribune)
    The Chicago Tribune reports: "Under the gilded dome of San Francisco City Hall, Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis will be wearing tuxedos and tying the knot this week as California becomes the nation's second state allowing same-sex marriages. 'Another generation in my family is going to be able to legally marry in California,' said Gaffney, 45, a policy analyst at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. 'It's history that's also a love story.'"
  • Tim Russert and Sudden Cardiac Arrest (Newsweek)
    Newsweek reports: "Journalists and politicians across the country were in shock Friday afternoon at news that Tim Russert, the prominent and beloved NBC correspondent, had collapsed and died suddenly of a heart attack in the network's Washington office. Russert had previously been been diagnosed with several risk factors for a sudden heart attack, including coronary artery disease and diabetes. But his death is still a sad reminder that cardiac arrest can strike anyone without warning -- and that when it does, it is often fatal." --- Jeffrey Olgin, a cardiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, is quoted.
  • SAME-SEX MARRIAGE / SAYING 'I DO' ALL OVER AGAIN / Catching up with four couples who married in 2004 (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle profiles Jamye Ford, 30, and Janet Thomson, 28 were both double majors in neuroscience at Columbia University when they met playing Ultimate Frisbee. Thomson is an environmental consultant and Ford has been working for UCSF as a project manager for a public health study. "After getting married on February 19, the experiences of that day were virtually indescribable," Ford said.
  • Research illuminates how stem cells may work (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "UC Berkeley scientists are a step closer to understanding how a series of molecular switches can turn on or off the regenerative power of stem cells that normally build new muscle tissue after it has been damaged." --- Rik Derynck, co-director of the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at UCSF, is quoted.
  • Public invited to hear results of Gallup health survey (San Jose Mercury News)
    The Mercury News reports: "The public is invited to learn more about the results of a Bay Area health care survey, and to voice their own concern about the subject, at a town hall meeting in San Francisco Tuesday at 7 p.m. The session runs from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Robertson Auditorium in the Mission Bay Conference Center at the University of California, San Francisco, 1675 Owens Street in San Francisco. A reception will follow. The event is free."
  • Cancer victim offers lessons in investing (Wall Street Journal)
    The Wall Street Journal reports: "Charles Wolf can't say the names of most companies he invests in. If he tries to say how many shares he bought, he usually gets that wrong, too. Mr. Wolf has had brain cancer since 2002, which affects his ability to communicate. But since late 2003, when he took his poorly performing portfolio back from his stock broker, he has roughly doubled his holdings to more than $3 million." --- Bruce Miller, professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, is interviewed.

UCSF TELEVISION COVERAGE

  • Health Care Forum at UCSF (ABC 7 News Sunday Morning - KGO-TV)
    A town hall meeting titled,“The American Public on Health Care: The Missing Perspective,” takes place on Tuesday, June 17, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Robertson Auditorium on the UCSF Mission Bay campus, 1675 Owens St.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • UCSF and YouTube create novel channel to drive medical research (UCSF Today)
    YouTube, the online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, has teamed up with scientists at The University of California, San Francisco to launch an Internet video channel dedicated to improving understanding of incurable neurodegenerative brain diseases.
  • Gladstone’s Kreitzer Receives Pew Scholar Award (UCSF Today)
    The Pew Charitable Trusts and UCSF announced that Gladstone Institutes and UCSF researcher Anatol C. Kreitzer, PhD, is one of 20 exceptional researchers selected as 2008 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences.