Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold.

David Julius, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UCSF, has won two awards for his work on the molecular understanding of how humans sense temperature.

Thanks to rarely talked-about recent advances in radiation treatments, young children are surviving cancers that would have been incurable a decade ago. One strategy that is helping to boost survival is radiation treatment provided at the time of surgery. UCSF and fewer than a dozen other medical centers nationwide are at the forefront in advancing this mode of treatment, called intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT).

States that set high staffing standards for elder care in nursing homes are the only ones that come close to having enough staff nurses to prevent serious safety violations, according to a new study by a professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.

Keeping an old brain young takes a jolt of novelty and a hunger for change...

UCSF's Kerwin Alexander will be among those pedaling the 585-mile AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles next month.

UCSF opened the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Diagnostic Center, one of the few centers of its kind in the world.