UCSF's Women's Global Health Imperative welcomes this week 28 women scientists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America for the start of a yearlong leadership-training program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 57, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named to receive the 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
CBS 5's Kim Mulvihill interviews Louann Brizendine, MD, a neuropsychiatrist at UCSF whose new book, The Female Brain, compiles two decades of brain research showing that the male and female brains are wired, structured and fueled differently, leading to unique talents.
UCSF's Asian Heart & Vascular Center recently conducted a free community education class on traditional Chinese medicine and its role in cardiovascular care.
Chancellor Mike Bishop and CEO Mark Laret joined Dean Kathleen Dracup on September 13 to commemorate 100 years of excellence in nursing care, research and education.
Barbara Hammerman, 47, San Mateo's first female police lieutenant, has terminal brain cancer and is pioneering again, this time volunteering for an experimental brain tumor treatment at UCSF that will hopefully save her life.
NBC's Robert Bazell takes a look at a new trend in medicine in which doctors suggest not giving children antibiotics right away to cure ear infections. NBC follows Cynthia Kim, MD, a pediatrician at UCSF Children's Hospital, as she treats a young girl for an ear infection.