UCSF Medical Anthropologist Sharon Kaufman, PhD, has received the Millennium Book Award, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed by the Society for Medical Anthropology.

William Francis Ganong, MD, who built the Department of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, into one of the leading departments of its kind in the United States, died on Dec. 23, at age 83.

The percentage of teens who report solely positive benefits from not having sex declines precipitously with age, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, S

The UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program is recognizing National Mentoring Month and the importance of mentoring for UCSF faculty by spearheading a number of activities.

Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain.

Despite increases in the overall use of opioid drugs to relieve severe pain, black and Hispanic patients remain significantly less likely than whites to receive these pain-relievers in emergency rooms, according to a new national study.

Deborah Greenspan, BDS, DSc, UCSF School of Dentistry professor of clinical oral medicine, interim chair of the Department of Orofacial Sciences and clinical director of the UCSF Oral AIDS Center, has been appointed chair of Orofacial Sciences.