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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.

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  • Heart Risks Emerging in People With HIV (Forbes.com)
    HealthDay reports: "Drugs that suppress HIV are keeping infected individuals alive and relatively healthy for years, even decades. But studies suggest that a new health risk is emerging for these long-term survivors: increased odds for heart attack and stroke." --- Dr. Priscilla Hsue, a cardiologist who is assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is interviewed.
  • Media Teleconference: Crucial AIDS Bill Stalled in Senate (Global Aids Alliance)
    Dr. Paul A. Volberding, MD, Director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California, San Francisco, participated in a media forum sponsored by the Global AIDS Alliance to support a bill that increases spending for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria prevention and treatment. The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008, passed the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and willl be voted on by the full Senate on June 27. --- An audio and written transcript is now available.
  • At most homes, staffing below federal guidelines (Marin Independent Journal)
    The Marin IJ reports: "Inadequate staffing is the Achilles heel of most nursing homes, said Steve Garcia, a Long Beach-based lawyer who has sued nursing homes for providing substandard care." --- A study by Charlene Harrington, at the University of California at San Francisco about the decrease in quality of care at nursing homes is mentioned.
  • CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "California's air board, for years an obscure state agency, will take center stage this week when it unveils a blueprint for the nation's most aggressive fight against global warming that is expected to affect every resident, industry and government agency in the state in the coming decade." --- Dr. John Balmes, professor at the UCSF medical school who heads San Francisco General Hospital's occupational and environmental medicine division, is listed as an air board member. --- Story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/22/MNQG11895P.DTL
  • Ruth Ann Swenson (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "Ruth Ann Swenson is starring in the San Francisco Opera production of 'Ariodante.' She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, [received treatment at UCSF and is now in remission.]
  • Medical care's state of denial (San Francisco Chronicle)
    Karen Vinci won an appeal of Blue Shield's decision to deny coverage of a radiosurgery treatment for bile-duct cancer that was recommended by UCSF doctors.
  • Oaxacan townspeople have high lead levels (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "Health investigators [from the U.S. and Mexico]...have concerns about traditional foods sent from Oaxaca's Zimatlan area after finding a possible link to high blood lead levels found in Oaxacans living in the scenic town of Seaside overlooking Monterey Bay." --- Margaret Handley, an epidemiologist at UC San Francisco, is quoted.
  • 2 new parks catalysts for S.F. neighborhoods (San Francisco Chronicle - Online)
    The Chronicle reports: "Two young parks in San Francisco up the ante: They're catalysts that make the neighborhoods around them come alive. One sits amid the slowly changing, often dreary South of Market landscape. The other is tucked below freeway ramps on the edge of Mission Bay, a master-planned new district that many Bay Area residents still probably can't locate on a map."

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