University of California-San Francisco

UCSF Study Presents Potential Neurological Treatment for Cocaine Addiction

Researchers may have discovered the initial steps to helping cocaine abusers overcome their addiction. A study conducted by scientists at UCSF and the National Institute of Health found that activating neurons in the brainʼs prefrontal cortex eliminated cocaine addition in lab rats. The paper, pu ... More >>

PETA Demands UCSF Give Back Federal Money Used for Experiment on Really Sad Monkey

PETA is asking the National Institutes of Health to demand that the University of California at San Francisco give back the $2.1 million in federal funds it spent experimenting on monkeys, which the group says violated animal welfare laws.UCSF was cited by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for ... More >>

Bomb Squad Called to UCSF

San Francisco police have informed us of a suspicious package found at UCSF this morning, causing authorities to evacuate a nearby daycare facility. Officer Gordon Shyy didn't have much information at this time, but tells us that the bomb squad is at the scene near 513 Parnassus.

Thought for Food

Breathe Easy: Study Finds No Link Between Marijuana Smoking and Lung Problems

​Tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke have some things in common. For example, they are both "smoke." Yet it appears there are some significant differences between the two, according to a study conducted by University of California San Francisco researchers.  For starters, one causes lung proble ... More >>

UCSF Medical Center, SF General Fined for Surgical Screw-Ups

​UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital have both been fined tens of thousands of dollars for operating-room mishaps, the California Department of Public Health announced today.The two are among 14 major hospitals against which state health officials issued sanctions, including top ... More >>

UCSF Study: Some Indian Immigrants Get Sex-Selection Abortions

A startling study from UCSF. ​The recently published UCSF study illuminates a startling trend: Indian immigrant women are using  reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the United States to abort female fetuses, acting on cultural pressure from their family to bear only son ... More >>

Mission Bay Protest Shuts Down Construction Site at UCSF

ABU, waiting for the jobs​After a brief hiatus from protests in front of the Mission Bay construction site where UCSF is building a new hospital, the unemployed woke up this morning and resumed their picketing, this time forcing builders to shut the gates and stop working for several hours.Members ... More >>

UCSF Researchers Believe They Have Found a Drug To Cure Alcoholism

Curing Alcoholism ​Leave it to Americans to try to cure alcoholism with a pill. UCSF researchers believe a muscle relaxant already out on the market can drastically reduce the urge to binge drink.Researchers from UCSF's Ernest Gallo Clinic used drunk rats to prove their hypothesis. They studied t ... More >>

Blowjobs, Sex, and Teens: Relax, it's a Scientific Study

Yeah, we remember high school...​A comprehensive U.C. San Francisco study claims that teen sexuality resembles a porn movie in at least one manner -- and it has nothing to do with a pizza deliveryman bringing his pepperoni to a houseful of amorous sorority girls. No, it's "first oral sex, then sex ... More >>

Local Hiring Protesters Shadow UCSF Hospital Groundbreaking

Protesters outside the UCSF VIP groundbreaking on Tuesday​This week, UCSF Mission Bay held groundbreaking ceremonies for its new children's, women's, and cancer hospitals -- a $1.5 billion complex being built on the edge of a neighborhood with the highest unemployment in San Francisco.Proponents o ... More >>

Mount Sutro battle pits tree lovers against native-plant lovers

U.C. San Francisco Rolling in Metric Shitload of Federal Funds

​Money may not buy you love -- but it sure as hell can fund research into preventing and curing diseases associated with love. And that works fine for U.C. San Francisco, which came near the top of the class on recently released figures by the National Institutes of Health ranking which medical in ... More >>

Ash Wednesday Makes Mark on Pelosi Photo-Op

http://www.ucsf.edu/​We were visiting U.C. San Francisco's Web page the other day -- you never know when you'll stumble across something amazing -- when something hit us right in the forehead. Specifically, Rep. Nancy Pelosi's forehead hit us in the forehead. We were glancing at the above photogra ... More >>

Study: Elderly Women With Dementia Subjected to Unneeded Mammograms

Breast cancer, a UCSF study claims, is not always a woman's biggest problem​A U.C. San Francisco study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health counter-intuitively posits two fascinating conclusions. A survey of thousands of women nationwide indicates that, among elderly women ... More >>

Suspected Mission Bay Wallet Thief Apprehended

Gotcha​The debate on whether the Mission Bay thief who allegedly snagged three wallets from the China Basin Building (including one belonging to an SF Weekly employee) is incredibly crafty/ballsy or incredibly desperate/stupid has come to a close. He's apparently a dumbass, and ... More >>

Go Cougars! S.F. Study Probes Into What Older Women Want.

A recent study regarding mature women's turn-ons is, somewhat ironically, published in a journal whose title is an instant turnoff: The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In any event, a U.C. San Francisco survey published this week plumbed the desires and activities of more than 2,000 wome ... More >>

Do You Think Big Tobacco Is a Bunch of Rotten, Death-Dealing Bastards? Well, Survey Says You're Probably Not a Smoker.

G.B. TrudeauDislike tobacco industry shills? That's a good sign for your lungs.A U.C. San Francisco study has revealed that young adults who deeply believe that the tobacco industry is composed of low-down, degenerate, gutless, slimy, watermelon-fucking sons of bitches are far less likely to smoke t ... More >>

Survey: U.C. San Francisco Raked In $366 Million in Fiscal '08

Show your support with a shirt -- or, say, $366 millionThe best way to get rich: Be rich. A survey released this week by the Council for Aid to Education ranked the Top-20 fund-raising universities in the realm, and our local schools did us proud. Stanford and U.C. Berkeley bookended the list: The P ... More >>

Hot! Horny! Wasted! Teens!

New research about young military recruits who smoke, drink, and screw too much.

U.S. Marine Corps an Orgy Palace of Stoned, Drunk, Horny Teens, New UCSF Study Suggests

By Matt SmithWhile doomsayers bemoan America's ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center may have turned up a brilliant silver lining.Thanks to desperate recruiting methods required to staff those wars, the U.S. Marines may be t ... More >>

SF Librarians Bust Johns Hopkins for Removing ‘Abortion’ from Health Database

Torch to pass by SF Weekly office?

Staph Infection Coverage Generates Gay Health Hysteria

Keep Those Nasty Bits Squeaky Clean: USA300 Wants You!

No Sex Pisses NorCal Teens Off - UCSF

UCSF Transgender Research Drama Puts Future of Academic Program in Question

Best Run for the Money

The Fix Is In

At least that's what Janet Campbell claimed about construction bids at UCSF, where she soon found herself out of a job

Dirty Laundry

Literally and figuratively, the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger gets fouler every day

Inside the Big Floop

Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

Cothran

What the Hellman Is Going on Here?

UCSF Stanford finances hit the rocks

Let's Make Appeal

UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

Unspun

Dog Bites

Daring Daylght Merger

Giving Away the Hospital

University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

The Merger's Tangled Web

The Grid

UCSF's Mad Money

The Stanford-UCSF merger's tab -- including a "pro bono" review that cost $191,490 -- is running into the millions

Times Two

In the UCSF-Stanford merger, the busiest health care workers are the doctors of spin

Temperature Rising

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Mulch

Captains of Medicine

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

Mulch

Mulch

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Dog Bites