The public is invited to join the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at the spring quarter of UCSF's Mini Medical School, presented by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCSF.
UCSF is notifying students, faculty, and staff that their personal information may have been accessed by an unauthorized party due to a possible compromise in security of a computer server. The server did not contain any patient names or patient information.
Brain damage that was thought to be caused by hypoglycemic coma actually occurs when glucose is administered to treat the coma, according to a study in rodents led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The Society of General Internal Medicine has selected Louise C. Walter, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, as Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year.
In May, the UC Board of Regents is expected to give UCSF Medical Center the approval to begin fundraising for its new hospital at Mission Bay, scheduled to open in 2013. The $1.2 billion hospital complex, part of the UCSF Medical Center, will be among the first in the nation devoted exclusively to the care of women and children, and cancer.
On the third episode of The Charlie Rose Science Series, co-hosts Charlie Rose and Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse, PhD, speak with UCSF's Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics, and director, Larry L. Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging, about Kenyon's cutting-edge research in genes and aging.