A 3-year-old who lost his hearing in a US missile attack receives a cochlear implant at UCSF after a massive fundraising effort and outpouring of support his father calls “beyond my imagination.”

Faculty who are going to the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20 are feeling optimistic about the future.

A 3-year-old Iraqi boy will undergo surgery at UCSF Medical Center today (Friday, January 16), to restore his hearing, which was destroyed in June 2007 when a U.S. explosive device hit his neighbor’s house.

Acting on the recommendation of University of California President Mark G. Yudof, the UC Board of Regents today (Jan. 14) approved plans curtailing undergraduate enrollment growth, and freezing the salaries of top administrators and significantly restricting compensation for a large group of senior leadership.

A team of UCSF researchers has discovered a protein duo that regulates the formation of endothelial cells – a breakthrough that has significant scientific and therapeutic implications.

Chancellor Mike Bishop, who will step down from the top post in June, delivered his final annual report on Tuesday, citing many accomplishments over the past year and thanking 18,000 employees for their service to UCSF.

The pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis employed “the systematic use of deception and misinformation” in order to manipulate physicians into prescribing the drug gabapentin for so-called off-label uses, write two San Francisco VA Medical Center physicians in the New England Journal of Medicine.