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Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center report that they have found a potential molecular cause for the aggressive growth and spread of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a highly malignant form of cancer with a very high death rate.
UCSF is well represented in the first Global Life Science Innovation Competition open to the public on April 21.
Jeffrey M. Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), discussed the rise and fall of Vioxx and similar painkilling drugs at UCSF's Cole Hall Wednesday.
Providing forearm support is an effective intervention to prevent musculoskeletal disorders of the upper body and aids in reducing upper body pain associated with computer work, according to a study in The British Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
A blue-ribbon task force, co-chaired by UCSF Vice Chancellor Bruce Spaulding, has recommended that water transportation be elevated to a prominent level in the Bay Area's emergency preparedness plans.
UCSF's history is San Francisco's history. That was true in the 1906 earthquake and again in the 1989 Loma Prieta temblor.
In April 1906, William H. Levings, grandfather to Susan Levings, associate dean, planning and communications in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was a veteran newspaperman for the San Francisco Examiner.
"Bringing Science to Life: The Promise of Modern Medicine" is the theme of UCSF's Mini Medical School for the public, which begins May 3.
Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, studies weighty matters - the genetics of obesity. He has identified a mutated gene that is responsible for extreme obesity, at least in a rare and unfortunate few.
As the UCSF logo nears its 30th anniversary, designer Henry Wachs ponders art and the Russian Revolution.
Inadequate use of screening mammography may be an important reason that African-American women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer than members of other ethnic groups, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco imaging specialist.
Stormy skies gave way to sunshine as a symbol of hope for what's to come in cancer research at the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art facility at UCSF Mission Bay.
UCSF Transportation Services is preparing for the first major overhaul to the campus shuttle routing system since the service began more than 30 years ago.
Doctors and medical students, pioneers of what would later become UCSF, responded to the 1906 earthquake by helping to care for the injured.
UCSF is being recognized for outstanding design and construction of its new animal facility on the Parnassus campus.
Jeffrey M. Drazen will tell the VIOXX story on Wednesday during the first UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture.
A UCSF faculty member recently was named as one of the 10 Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area for 2005.
An expert will address whether academia is relevant to global health on April 24.
The Gladstone Institutes has received funding to train the next generation of stem cell scientists.
A theft was reported Monday afternoon, April 10 at the Community Center at UCSF Mission Bay, says UCSF Chief of Police Pamela Roskowski.
Four individuals will receive the UCSF Medal at a banquet ceremony on April 27.
UCSF is gearing up for earthquake preparedness activities, which includes a disaster drill on April 19, when volunteers are needed to participate.
A public health expert and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility will talk about the global gun epidemic at UCSF this Thursday.
UCSF's Art for Recovery program was recently selected as the winner of the 2006 international arts competition sponsored by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.
Lee Goldman, chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, has been appointed dean at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine today announced that UCSF and 15 other California non-profit institutions have received the first year of funding for a three-year program designed to train the next generation of stem cell scientists.
Student teams from across campus exchanged oranges, built tents, ferried ping pong balls and crawled in search of fortune cookies in the first day of the Fourth Annual "Battle of the Schools."