This past year UCSF has furthered its mission of advancing health worldwide from the groundbreaking of a medical center at Mission Bay, and continuing to make major medical advances through scientific breakthroughs, leading patient care and innovative campus expansions.

’Tis the season for temptations, with holiday dinners and treats nearly everywhere we turn. So stick a fork into these 10 tips from the UCSF Center for Prevention of Heart and Vascular Disease.

In a recent UCSF-led study in mice, researchers developed a method to stabilize living lung tissue for imaging without disrupting the normal function of the organ. The method allowed the team to observe, for the first time, both the live interaction of living cells in the context of their environment and the unfolding of events in the immune response to lung injury.

Surpassing fundraising expectations ten-fold, thanks, in part to 12-year-old Paddy O’Brien, the Challenge for Children concluded December 16, generating more than $1 million for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay.

A UCSF shuttle bus stopped at a red light near San Francisco General Hospital was rear-ended this morning in a chain-reaction traffic collision, said the San Francisco Police Department.

The UCSF Challenge for the Children, a social media-based fundraising contest that won the support of prominent Silicon Valley companies, tech industry executives and other celebrities, concluded yesterday (Dec. 16, 2010), raising more than $1 million for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

UCSF’s ongoing program called “Operational Excellence” has a new website to help faculty and staff better understand efforts to reorganize campuswide services and achieve both administrative excellence and financial savings.