The first-of-its-kind event “Healthy Hearts, Healthy Smiles” offered health services and counseling to UCSF’s nighttime custodial staff, while also giving students from different programs a chance to learn from one another.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that was signed into law this week by President Barack Obama includes an increase that allows UCSF employees to take money out of their paycheck now, before taxes are deducted, to pay for transportation.

A month after surgery at UCSF Medical Center, doctors activated 3-year-old Mustafa Ghazwan’s cochlear implant, allowing him to hear for the first time in nearly two years.

UCSF Medical Center is seeking employees to serve on a focus group to talk about its primary care services.

More than 150 students from most of California’s graduate health schools will gather at UCSF next week for a groundbreaking LGBT health forum.

The campus community is invited on Friday to a symposium in the Health Sciences West building on the Parnassus campus about advances in tobacco control.

The campus community is invited to the next Chancellor’s Health Policy Lecture on Feb. 24 featuring Sidney Wolfe, an outspoken critic of the FDA and pharmaceutical industry.

Current guidelines for when to prescribe popular cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins would produce cost-effective results and would save thousands of lives every year if they were followed more closely by physicians and patients, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.