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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.