Non-high school graduates especially at risk for lower quality of life after prostate cancer treatment

The UCSF Pain Management Center and UCSF Pain Center for Advanced Research and Education have been honored jointly as one of six centers of excellence nationwide by the American Pain Society. They are the only award recipients located west of the Mississippi.

All UCSF employees are required to take an online ethics briefing, which takes about 30 minutes to complete.

Four members of the community will help shape the future of the UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Zion.

Two separate bills that would subsidize stem cell research are in Senate debate this week. The White House says President Bush will veto a bill supporting research that destroys viable human embryos. An alternative bill, one supported by the White House, would fund stem cell research on fertilized embryos that are no longer capable of full development.

Pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine explains the latest findings on the differences between male and female brains.

Would you have the courage and the confidence to pose nude after age 50? Two Bay Area women did, as part of a national advertising campaign.

On View from the Bay, Louanne Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, discusses how hormones and the environment go hand in hand, and the effects they can have on relationships.

A woman's chance of undergoing a hysterectomy can now be accurately predicted, according to new UCSF study findings.