UCSF released today (August 4) answers to frequently asked questions about implementing the UC furlough plan, which was approved by UC Regents on July 16.

A study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco offers evidence that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder have a significantly lower survival rate one year after surgery than veterans without the diagnosis, even though the veterans with PTSD were seven years younger on average.

Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancer for women and men – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.”

A walking tour of Mount Sutro is scheduled for noon on Saturday, Oct. 24. Those who want to join the tour should meet at the intersection of Johnstone Drive and Behr Avenue.

UCSF will offer a chance for people with colorectal cancer to meet with and learn from experts and fellow patients living with the disease at an event on October 31.

In a conversation with Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, newly named Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn covered a range of topics, including career highs and lows and the particular struggles of working women.

Margaret Chesney will return to UCSF as the director of the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

A new report finds widespread variations and frequent errors in HER2 testing — a procedure recommended for all patients with invasive breast cancer.