Four faculty scientists in the UCSF School of Medicine are among the 65 newly elected members and five foreign associates to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today, Oct. 13.

In what he calls the biggest epilepsy research project in history, UCSF neurologist Dan Lowenstein, along with colleagues at 13 major epilepsy centers, is searching for genes associated with the disease...

A novel therapy using a miniature nerve stimulator instead of medication for the treatment of profoundly disabling headache disorders improved the experience of pain by 80-95 percent, according to a new study from UCSF and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.

The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D.B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.