The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has promised $10.75 million to extend a ground-breaking UCSF project to help combat maternal mortality in Nigeria and India – two countries that comprise one-third of all maternal deaths worldwide.
Oakland A's first baseman and outfielder Nick Swisher visited UCSF last week as chair of Macy's holiday tree-lighting campaign to benefit UCSF Children's Hospital.
UCSF has launched a new website showcasing woodblock prints that provide a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West.
UCSF has hired an expert who has served in 23 disaster situations, including Hurricane Katrina and the attack upon the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.