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A technique for detecting prions in tissue, developed in recent years by UCSF scientists, is significantly more sensitive than the diagnostic procedures...

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Samuel Barondes, Howard Fields and Deepak Srivastava will be inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

Here are a few of the memorable moments that capture the teaching, research, patient care and campus life activities at UCSF in 2011.

UCSF Police report that on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at about 10:50 a.m., a UCSF employee observed a suspect remove her purse from a cubby on the fourth floor...

Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African-American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known...

Nominations are due May 18 for the 2006 Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and/or Transgender Leadership.

UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble issued an update on the school's accomplishments, faculty awards and other campus news.

The Gladstone Institutes has received funding to train the next generation of stem cell scientists.

More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an...

If approved by the full UC Board of Regents in July, Alfredo Mireles Jr. could become the first UCSF student to serve as UC Student Regent in nearly two...

UCSF will celebrate diversity week with a number of events and activities, including a keynote speech by Former UCSF Chancellor Phillip R. Lee on October 25.

Pro-Palestinian protesters who created an encampment and blocked entrances to University of California, Santa Cruz campus buildings were forcibly removed...

Rachel Hale, 16, is planning for prom night, a right of passage that unlike for most of her peers, will take place inside a hospital cafeteria at UCSF Benioff...

The cellular gatekeepers that escort the most common pharmaceuticals into our cells continue to work within the cells as well, according to a UC San Francisco...

The UCSF Library is celebrating Open Access Week, a worldwide event now in its fifth year to give the academic and research community an opportunity to learn...

Blood-pressure and glucose control may be effective in preventing heart block, a common form of arrhythmia, and the subsequent need for a pacemaker.

A UCSF advisory committee has announced that nine scholars have been selected for the National Institutes of Health's latest mentorship program to train...

If Regents approve one of the recommendations from a UC task force on post-employment benefits, faculty and staff will contribute 5 percent of their pay to the...

Providing a collaborative and inviting environment for international scholars has been a priority for UCSF, which in 2010 had more international students and...

Two-thirds of people with severe and otherwise untreatable epilepsy were completely cured of their frequent seizures after undergoing neurosurgery at the...

UC San Francisco is the leading university dedicated to advancing health worldwide through preeminent biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life...

Frequently asked questions for faculty interested in publicizing news and research.

UCSF Police today reported that a female student was sexually assaulted outside the Mission Bay housing complex this morning.

Downtown San Francisco could get a new college campus as city leaders are looking to revitalize the area.

Time is running out for those who may be procrastinating about joining or supporting the AIDS Walk.

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, a well-loved dean at UCSF who led the School of Pharmacy to its enduring position as the premier such program in the United...

The AIDS Research Institute at UCSF will sponsor a symposium outlining the latest advances in HIV/AIDS research, prevention and care on the afternoon of...

Although routine preoperative testing is not indicated for patients undergoing cataract surgery, researchers at UCSF have found that it is still a common...

Constructing an environment that fosters success in translational research was the subject of the School of Medicine's annual retreat held in Napa on Jan. 19...

UCSF faculty and teachers from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) will share some of the highlights of their ongoing partnership designed to...

To allow veterans and military service members to get to know the UC San Francisco community and consider UCSF as an employer of choice, the University will...

Some of the biggest names in the field of global health came to UCSF recently to discuss to work together to improve the education of health professionals in...

A committee looking into the future location of San Francisco General Hospital recommends in its final report that the public hospital should be rebuilt on...

Faculty, staff and UC will contribute more to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) beginning July 1.

A study led by researchers at UCSF and Group Health Research Institute, shows that medical imaging is increasing even in health maintenance organization...

Obesity research in overweight humans may soon be guided by genetic studies of eating behavior, metabolism and fat storage in the nematode worm, C elegans.

UCSF is hosting a symposium on the intersection of medical science and information technology in recognition of the visionary thinking of William J. Rutter,...

Building on its foundation as a leading site for pediatric brain tumor research and care, UCSF has established a Pediatric Brain Tumor Institute devoted to...

Doctors participating in internal medicine hospital conferences designed to review adverse medical events do not often discuss related medical errors,...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended an event Friday where research grants for stem cell research were handed out. KGO-TV reports that now that grants have...

Daniel M. Dooley, senior vice president for external relations at the University of California Office of the President, said today the University would stop...

A new study of mammogram use among Latina and Filipina women shows the powerful influence of culture in determining health behavior.

After violent protests rocked the UC Berkeley campus, a Berkeley public school teacher is front and center in the debate over free speech.

An international study may offer hope to people with a rare and debilitating genetic disorder, PKAN, as well as a potentially new approach to treat other...

The UCSF Family Treatment Fund will sponsor a holiday event on Tuesday, December 14, to raise funds for treating Ugandans infected with HIV.

A series of political defeats, declines in campaign contributions and a recent falloff in revenue appear to signal an erosion of tobacco industry influence in...

UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes will observe World AIDS Day on December 3 with a symposium featuring emerging investigators working to combat the disease.

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

A prominent neuroscientist, a global humanitarian relief organizer, a pioneering pediatrician and two supporters of basic biomedical research will receive the...

UCSF will be holding free drop-in flu shot clinics for its employees, students and volunteers starting Monday, Sept. 19.

Laura Kurtzman is the Assistant Director, Media Relations for Research and Education at the UCSF Office of Communications.

A national expert will deliver a lecture on current issues in Asian health at UCSF on June 19.

UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann says she will focus on four priorities -- patients and health, people, discoveries and business -- to ensure that UCSF can...

Cloudy skies and a late spring drizzle didn't stop some faculty, staff and students from riding their bikes to UCSF last Thursday as part of the national Bike...

Colin Boyle, MBA, has been appointed the first Deputy Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences.

The possibility of using embryonic stem cells to treat disease, a strategy known as regenerative medicine, is not yet being explored in clinical trials, and...

Save the date: Spring Garden Market and Educational Fair, Saturday, April 18, 9am - 1pm Time to Start Vegetable SeedsPlant for PollinatorsTry Growing...

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has renewed and expanded a three-year agreement with Pfizer Inc. to collaborate on research...

With renewed funding by the National Institutes of Health, the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at UCSF is poised to further accelerate the...

Macular degeneration is the major cause of vision loss in the United States. The disease, which kills photoreceptors that convey visual signals from the eye to...

As chief of the medical staff at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), Andre Campbell, associate professor of clinical surgery and chair of surgical education...

Women 65 or older who have even mild retinopathy, a disease of blood vessels in the retina, are more likely to have cognitive decline and related vascular...

A new study points to another persistent effect of COVID-19, identified months after infection: reduced exercise capacity.

UCSF Health and John Muir Health are augmenting their growing collaboration through a plan to expand world-class, compassionate cancer care.

UCSF has launched an enterprise-wide effort to improve compliance rates for systemwide mandatory trainings, a priority monitored by the University of...

The deadline for nominations for the Martin Luther King Jr. Award at UCSF has been extended to October 30.

The risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease following insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) is very low, whether or not women have been screened...

The nation's only event designed by and for teenage girls is scheduled for March 9 in San Francisco.

A study from UCSF shows a previously unknown connection between the Epstein-Barr virus, known to play a role in MS, and an understudied type of immune cell.

Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the quality of health care in the San Francisco community, combining the...

The UCSF Chief of Police will hold a media briefing regarding the vehicular death this morning of UCSF Police Officer Edson Veloro, offering comments on...