A new JAMA study questions a link between a common gene variant and depression risk among people who have experienced stressful life events. Sorting out disease risk due to genes and environment remains challenging.

UCSF School of Dentistry Dean John D.B. Featherstone answers questions about the importance of Denti-Cal, a Medi-Cal program that faces elimination at the end of this month due to the state budget crisis.

The 20-year-old San Francisco Injury Center, located at San Francisco General Hospital, has established itself as a local, national and international leader in injury treatment and prevention.

The University of California, San Francisco, has partnered with Abbott, a global health care company, to launch a first-of-its kind, non-profit viral diagnostics center near the UCSF Mission Bay campus to help identify unknown viruses from around the world.

Scientists have long thought that processes occurring during sleep were responsible for cementing the salient experiences of the day into long-term memories. Now, however, a study of scampering rats suggests that the mechanisms at work during sleep are also active while the animals are awake -- and that they encode events more accurately.

After a number of laptop and computer thefts on the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses, faculty, staff, students and trainees are reminded to take steps to secure property and protect confidential data.

A new prostate cancer risk assessment test, developed by a UCSF team, gives patients and their doctors a better way of gauging long-term risks and pinpointing high risk cases.

Josh Adler, MD, chief medical officer of UCSF Medical Center, today (June 11) issued a statement about the World Health Organization (WHO) raising the H1N1 influenza pandemic alert to its highest level.