G. Richard O'Connor, former director of the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology at UCSF, died on Aug. 9, 2007.

Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, MD, director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic and author of The Female Brain, appears on the KPBS radio show These Days to discuss the differences between the male and female brain.

UCSF Mission Bay will soon welcome new eateries to the retail hub around the housing complex.

Upper trunk fat –– deposits of fat on the chest and back –– is associated with an increased risk of insulin resistance, a condition that is a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).

UC will offer a revised online sexual harassment prevention training program to all supervisory employees the week of September 10.