Through both long-term and one-time-only projects, UCSF is increasing its efforts to engage China in scientific and academic collaboration — part of the University’s ongoing pursuit to improve global health.

Nearly150 people attended the 2009 UCSF Martin Luther King Jr. Awards ceremony on Friday honoring Katherine Flores, JoAnne Keatley and Bunly Pel.

New UCSF Faculty, February 2009

New UCSF Faculty, February 2009

New UCSF Faculty, February 2009

Registration is due Feb. 2 for women interested in attending a Feb. 5 workshop at UCSF to learn how to secure appointments to local boards and commissions.

Chronic disease and early death are far more common in low-income communities, which also tend to be largely nonwhite and less educated, says public health expert Anthony Iton.

UCSF Children’s Hospital wants to alert the public to a fundraising scam that has been brought to its attention.

UCSF has received tentative approval of a grant from the California Institute for Regeneration Medicine to continue its comprehensive stem cell training program, designed to help cultivate the next generation of stem cell scientists.

A new study has found that resident physicians at teaching hospitals underuse interpreter services — often relying on hand gestures or a limited number of words in the patient’s native language.