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The main phone number for the office is (415) 476-2557. This number is covered 24 hours a day, weekends and holidays. After regular business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time), a News Office staff person is on-call and available to help. The fax number for the office is (415) 476-3541.

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  • January 15, 2009
    Iraqi boy undergoes surgery to restore hearing
    A 3-year-old Iraqi boy will undergo surgery at UCSF Medical Center on Friday, January 16, to restore his hearing, which was destroyed in June 2007 when a U.S. explosive device hit his neighbor’s house.
  • January 15, 2009
    UCSF VA researchers call drug company deceptions typical
    The pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis employed “the systematic use of deception and misinformation” in order to manipulate physicians into prescribing the drug gabapentin for so-called off-label uses, write two San Francisco VA Medical Center physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  • January 12, 2009
    UCSF researchers use new tools to move in on cancer susceptibility genes
    UCSF researchers have used a new strategy to study inherited susceptibility for skin cancer in mice. In the process, they have identified a network of genes that may play a key role in controlling this susceptibility. The technique, the scientists say, could be used to identify such genes in human cancers.

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