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The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center today is being renamed as a tribute to San Francisco native Helen Diller and her family. All UCSF cancer programs and resources will now carry the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center name.
San Francisco-based jazz musician and vocalist Kitty Margolis will perform, along with Alfonso Montuori, a professor of transformative studies, during a free event today.
Healthier food alternatives have arrived at UCSF in a place you'd least expect them: vending machines.
Chemicals in the environment are threatening our health, our ability to reproduce and our offspring. What can we do?
Martin Chemers, a UC Santa Cruz professor of psychology and an expert on leadership, will present the inaugural faculty development lecture at UCSF on December 4.
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi recently visited with UCSF researchers and veterans at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
John Kerner, former chief of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Mount Zion, on Tuesday received France's <i>Légion d'Honneur</i> for his efforts in liberating France in World War II.
The UCSF Iraq Action Group will host a forum on Thursday, when people will share their firsthand knowledge about the deadly conflict and its consequences.
Scientists are reporting the first successful strategy to reduce smokers' nicotine dependence while allowing them to continue smoking. The study provides strong support for proposals now being considered in Congress to authorize FDA regulation of cigarette smoking, according to the research team.
The campus community is invited to hear UCSF leaders talk at a town hall meeting on Nov. 20 about efforts made to create a more diverse campus community.
A specific biological response to cellular stress may predict the likelihood of future tumor formation of the most common, non-invasive form of pre-malignant breast cancer-- ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS.
UCSF police provided new details at Wednesday's town hall meeting about the recent sexual assault of a student at the Mission Bay campus.
Latinos and asthma: Knowing who you really are can help you to stay healthy...
New studies just published in a special supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine examine the consequences of language barriers for patients who speak little, if any, English and the impact of the absence of language services in health care settings. Overall, the studies report that measurable disparities in quality of care result when patients and providers do not speak the same language.
Researchers at UCSF and the University of Toronto have identified a potential new way of fighting against HIV infection that relies on the remnants of ancient viruses, human endogenous retroviruses (HERV), which have become part of the genome of every human cell.
UCSF is participating in a live national webcast on November 17, an event that is open to anyone who has experienced a loss by suicide.
The brains of full-term infants with congenital heart disease appear more similar to those of premature newborns than to the brains of normal term infants, a study conducted by researchers at UCSF has found.
UCSF has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Origins and Biological Consequences of Human Infertility.
"It's a great time and UCSF is a great place," Wyatt R. (Rory) Hume, UC provost and executive vice president, told students.
The recent appointment of Tracey Woodruff to UCSF will expand the understanding that environmental contaminants can have profound effects on reproductive and developmental health.
Members of the campus community recently welcomed Carlos Garcia, the new superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District.
California Cancer Care, Marin General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco have signed agreements to improve access to surgical services for individuals with breast cancer who reside in Marin County.