The new campus events calendar has a fresh look and offers more detailed listings and user-friendly search tools.

Fat-filled calories – how would you like to eat as many as the next guy, while he balloons out and you don’t? That idea might not be as far-fetched as it sounds.

New UCSF Faculty, April 2009

As if you need a reason to celebrate, UCSF is hosting the Red Hot Gala on Saturday featuring live entertainment at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

UCSF is offering employees a three-part series that will offer expert advice on résumé writing, interviewing and financial planning.

The UCSF Founders Day Banquet on April 15 will honor four recipients of the 2009 UCSF Medal and six UCSF faculty members, who will be recognized for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research and mentoring.

Tens of thousands of women are having surgery – sometimes even having both breasts removed – to treat a condition that is unlikely to ever become life-threatening.

The majority of adolescents in the United States do not obtain the appropriate level of preventive health care services, despite broad professional consensus recommending annual doctor visits for this age group, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.

A UCSF research team has developed a technique to distinguish benign moles from malignant melanomas by measuring differences in levels of genetic markers. Standard microscopic examinations of biopsied tissue can be ambiguous and somewhat subjective, the researchers say, and supplementing standard practice with the new technique is expected to help clarify difficult-to-diagnose cases.