The California Dental Association sponsored a new law that requires children in their first year of public school to get a dental exam before May 31.

Toxins are well-recognized sources of stress on the body and we can be exposed to them in the general environment, at work and at home — perhaps a neglected place when it comes to chemical exposure.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have looked at cystatin C, an alternative measure of kidney function that may have prognostic significance among elderly people who do not meet the standard criteria for chronic kidney disease.

UCSF will honor four individuals with its highest honor – the UCSF Medal – at a special event on Thursday, May 3.

Now anyone with an internet connection can benefit from the advice of fetal treatment specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.

UCSF scientists have identified two suspects in the massive die-off of half a million bee colonies in the US. Joe DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, both Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators at UCSF, have used a powerful combination of a "virus chip" — a microarray with DNA samples of most known viruses and fungi — and "shotgun" sequencing, which identifies telltale DNA from random samples of the biological sample.

Postdoctoral scholar Selma Omer recently worked in Tanzania as part of a Global Health Sciences mission to offer expertise in resource-constrained countries.

Jaime Sepúlveda, a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine who chairs the Committee on the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Implementation Evaluation, will present the recommendations of that committee at UCSF on May 7.

The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, UCSF scientists have found.

A decrease in hormone use by women has led to a decline in breast cancer cases, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week.