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Acclaimed artist, singer and writer Rhodessa Jones and The Medea Project will perform at “Living Proof,” a celebration to benefit the 15th anniversary of the UCSF Women’s HIV Program.
Swimming enthusiasts are invited to join a team of Olympians for Swim Across America’s third annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim on Saturday, October 18. The events benefits cancer care at UCSF Children’s Hospital.
UCSF is celebrating 45 years of transplant procedures and 10,000 patients.
Two UCSF scientists are among the 31 nationwide who have received 2008 New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health. The awards are designed “to enable recipients to pursue exceptionally innovative approaches that could transform biomedical and behavioral science."
Do environmental effects on young girls lead to breast cancer decades later?
Today UCSF Medical Center is one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus following the unanimous approval by the University of California Board of Regents on the project’s design, budget and environmental certification.
CT colonography (CTC), known as virtual colonoscopy, is as accurate at screening for colorectal cancers and pre-cancerous polyps as conventional colonoscopy, the current screening standard, according to the National CT Colonography Trial, a nationwide multi-center study that included the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The Regents of the University of California are hearing a formal proposal today that will launch the next stage of planning for the UC School of Global Health to meet the tremendous need for training new leaders to tackle increasing global health issues. This would be UC’s first multicampus, systemwide school.
The campus community is invited to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 25 to Oct. 15 with a series of events taking place around campus.
UCSF Medical Center will be one step closer to breaking ground for a new hospital complex on the UCSF Mission Bay campus when an agenda item on the project’s design, budget and environmental certification comes up for approval by the University of California Board of Regents this week.
In the quest to make drugs that target cancer in new ways, pharmaceutical firms should look within cells at a master-switch called myc....
This week we ponder whether one person's depression might be biochemically different from another person's depression, and whether depression itself might sometimes be part of a bigger, badder medical syndrome...