The University of California Center for Health Quality and Innovation is accepting applications for the UC Health Fellowship.

Bryan Stow is now recovering after being treated for a severe brain injury at the UCSF-affiliated San Francsico General Hospital and Trauma Center, which recently became the first hospital in the country to be certified for a Traumatic Brain Injury Program by the Joint Commission.

UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will celebrate a major milestone on October 17, with the placement of a 1,600-pound beam atop the sprawling hospital complex to signify the end of the structural steel phase.

John Baxter, a UCSF faculty member for more than 35 years, is being remembered as a pioneer of biotechnology and a leader in taking discoveries from the halls of academia to form companies aimed at developing medical therapies. He died in San Francisco on Oct. 5 following surgery for cancer.

Sperm penetrates egg to complete fertilization is a happy ending hard to reach for many couples, but recent research findings — including the discovery of how progesterone attracts sperm to the egg — are engendering new ideas about birth control and infertility.

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is profiled in the Oct. 11, 2011 edition of the New York Times, which is reprinted here according to a license agreement with the University.