James Wilkerson has been appointed as director of the UCSF Laboratory Animal Resource Center within the Office of Research of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UCSF.

Women’s health pioneer Marianne J. Legato, an internationally recognized specialist in women's health, will be the keynote speaker at the UCSF/UC Hastings symposium on February 25.

Yoga and tai chi rooms and a meditative garden exist alongside exam rooms at the newly opened Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, which offers the best of modern medicine with established healing practices from around the world.

Patients newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias, and their families, need guidance from physicians on planning for the patient’s progressive loss of ability to handle finances, say San Francisco VA-UCSF investigators.

UCSF received more research funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other public institution in 2010, and ranked third among all institutions nationwide, according to new figures released by the NIH.