UCSF will go completely smoke-free tomorrow, November 20, which is Great American Smoke-out Day.

UCSF hosted nearly 100 fourth-graders from San Francisco’s E.R. Taylor Elementary School to learn about the connection between attending college and becoming a health care professional.

Two common cancer drugs have been shown to both prevent and reverse type 1 diabetes in a mouse model of the disease, according to research conducted at the University of California, San Francisco. The drugs – imatinib (marketed as Gleevec) and sunitinib (marketed as Sutent) – were found to put type 1 diabetes into remission in 80 percent of the test mice and work permanently in 80 percent of those that go into remission.