The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.
UCSF director of university publications Jeff Miller is attending the EuroScience Open Forum. From Munich, Miller blogs his experiences and observations.
Five years after President George W. Bush announced limited funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the US Senate takes up a bill today that would significantly expand that funding.
KQED's Forum with Michael Krasny discussed supermarket grocery pricing, availability, and quality with Toby Morris, a registered dietician at UCSF Medical Center.
Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention, a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, shows that 12.5 percent of births in the United States in 2004 were preterm, a 30 percent increase over the 1981 rate.