Samantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.

Chief surgeon William Schecter received the 2007 Special Hero Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently.

KPIX-TV's HealthWatch reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.

Some say extended cycle birth control pills are revolutionizing contraception for many women because it provides fewer periods, which means less pain, PMS and inconvenience, but is it safe? UCSF neuropsychiatrist and female hormone specialist Louann Brizendine, MD, says various forms of extended cycle pills have been used for years.

If you could learn your odds of getting cancer, heart disease or diabetes, would you? A new generation of home genetic testing kits allows anybody with a cotton swab and a mailbox to find out. But does convenience come with a privacy risk?

Research at the University of California, San Francisco found a racial disparity in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.

The campus community is invited to celebrate Women's History Month in March, when UCSF hosts several events.

Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center will be among the first health care workers to use a tablet-like PC called a mobile clinical assistant (MCA), developed specifically for medical professionals by Intel and Motion Computing. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.

A memorial service will be held this Friday for Jere Edwin Goyan, PhD, former dean of UCSF's School of Pharmacy, who died Jan. 17.