Weekly visits by the San Francisco nonprofit group BayKids offer young UCSF patients the chance to write, direct and star in their own short films.

Different cell types in the brain are vulnerable in different degenerative brain diseases – Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis, for instance.

To treat neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, UCSF researchers have developed a new strategy for delivering gene therapy to the brain cells that stand to benefit most.

A 3-year-old Iraqi boy who underwent surgery at UCSF Medical Center last month to restore his hearing will have his hearing tested on February 17.

The new Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine will examine the potential benefits and pitfalls as medical care moves beyond the one-size-fits-all approach.

New and emerging biomedical approaches to HIV/AIDS prevention will be the focus of a daylong symposium on February 24 sponsored by the UCSF-Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Lawrence Pitts, 68, a longtime UC faculty member, past chair of the UC Academic Senate and professor of neurosurgery at UCSF, was named as interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the UC system.

Years after being told she had six months to live, metastatic cancer patient Lori Nichols says she feels “wonderful,” thanks in part to a treatment regimen that combines traditional therapies with cutting-edge innovations.

Rita Redberg, a cardiologist at UCSF Medical Center and a longtime leader in the field of women’s cardiovascular health, has added the role of “prestigious journal editor” to her already impressive résumé.

Cancer doctors may be writing the prescriptions for new generations of drugs, but some financially hard-pressed patients are not having those prescriptions filled.