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| Jun.10 |
UCSF |
UCSF, Pfizer sign research deal| A novel, broad-ranging research collaboration will provide up to $9.5 million for studies that could lead to new drugs or biomedical tools | |
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| Feb.17 |
South SF |
Prostate cancer vaccine shows promise Shares in Cell Genesys shot up nearly 20% after the company released a favorable analysis of its experimental prostate cancer vaccine GVAX
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| Jan.22 |
Stanford |
Separated Costa Rican Twins To Go Home Formerly conjoined 2-year-old girls walked, played and swatted at bubbles during their first public appearance since risky separation surgery
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| Jan.16 |
Oakland |
Kaiser To Study Morgellons Disease The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is paying Kaiser Permanente to test and interview patients suffering from bizarre symptoms
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| Dec.25 |
Stanford |
Genetic Screens Help Black And Hispanic A new study finds that Hispanic and young black women may benefit from genetic screening in connection with a gene associated with breast cancer
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14-Year-Old Shot To Death At School
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| Nov.20 |
Mountain View |
Startup 23andMe offers DNA scans online The Google-backed company started a Web-based genetic testing service offering a $999 scan of DNA, including hints about their disease risks
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| Oct.15 |
Stanford |
Test developed to identify Alzheimer's| Researchers have developed a potentially pathbreaking blood test that could help to identify patients with Alzheimer's disease | |
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| Oct.13 |
UC Berkeley |
Study Links Self-Esteem And Violence While a healthy self-esteem can absorb the shock of rejection, poor self-esteem can trigger the primal fight-or-flight response
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| Apr.4 |
Palo Alto |
Watzlawick, family therapy pioneer, dies A pioneering Stanford family therapist and communications theorist was 85
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| Dec.17 |
Stanford |
Univ. Launches E. Coli Into Earth's Orbit Scientists believe studying the organism’s behavior may help determine the effect outer space conditions have on humans
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| Oct.10 |
Bay Area |
Breast Cancer On Decline In Bay Area A cancer research center reported a decline in the occurrences among women of all ethnic backgrounds
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| Oct.2 |
Stanford |
Scientist Shares Nobel Prize In Medicine| Professor of Pathology and Genetics Andrew Fire won the Prize for discovering a way to silence specific genes | |
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| Aug.23 |
Alameda |
'Ethical' stem cell lines created| Advanced Cell Technology has developed a new way of creating stem cells without destroying human embryos | | |
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Student Disappears During Finals Week
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| Feb.12 |
Stanford |
Heart transplant pioneer Shumway dies Norman E. Shumway performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States
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| Jan.28 |
San Carlos |
Nektar Develops Inhaled Insulin The company has been working for 15-years to get Exubera approved
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| Nov.29 |
UCSF |
UCSF Takes Aim At Alzheimer's A new experimental treatment targets a protein known as amyloid that gunks up the brain
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| Sep.23 |
Genentech |
Genentech Stops Enrolling Avastin Study The company stopped enrolling patients in a study due to greater occurrences of gastrointestinal perforations
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| Apr.16 |
Genentech |
Avastin helps those with breast cancer Genentech Inc.'s pioneering colon cancer is already showing potential as a lung cancer treatment
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| Feb.24 |
Stanford |
Girl Tastes Food For First Time In 8 Years| Thanks to doctors, a little girl from England is catching up on 8 years with no junk food | |
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| Feb.17 |
Stanford |
Tiny Miracle Baby Survives Heart Surgery 1-week-old Jerrick De Leon is the smallest baby ever to survive a special type of open heart surgery
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| Jan.10 |
Stanford |
Device allows 3-D pictures of heart
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High school football star killed
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| May.20 |
Stanford |
Little Boy Gets Heart Transplant
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| Feb.18 |
UCSF |
Breakthrough Brain Discovery
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| Jul.9 |
UCSF |
School dean appointed to UN AIDS panel
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| May.27 |
San Francisco |
Summit on Aging
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| May.3 |
UCSF |
Hospital has second set of quadruplets Lorena Espitia, 26, gave birth April 21 to quadruplets
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| Apr.8 |
UC Berkeley |
CDC director updates crowd on SARS
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| Feb.25 |
SF Downtown |
1,000 women to attend health conference
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| Feb.20 |
San Francisco |
National sexuality resource center opens
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Frat brawl: One dead on his birthday
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| Oct.23 |
San Jose |
Second-best place in US for healthy men
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| Aug.3 |
Berkeley |
Mass Breastfeeding Record Targeted 1130 women gathered at a park to break the world record for the number of mothers breastfeeding at one time
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| Oct.9 |
San Francisco |
S.F. General gets $10 million grant
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| Jul.16 |
UCSF |
UCSF suspends stem cell research
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| Jan.9 |
Livermore Lab |
Scientists Honored
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| Nov.23 |
San Mateo |
Free marijuana to patients for study County to give away marijuana to 60 AIDS patients as part of a study of benefits of the drug
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