Thanks in part to the tremendous support from the campus community, UCSF's own Stuart Gaffney and his partner, John Lewis, will be the Community Grand Marshals in the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.

NPR's All Things Considered reports that "[a] new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it Bartonella rochalimae, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist." NPR's Rebecca Roberts speaks with Koelher about the discovery of the bacterium, and why that particular name was selected for it.

Modern weapons, like IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, have left many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating injuries, while advances in trauma care have ensured their survival and return home to cope with those unique injuries, relying on a VA system that is antiquated and can't support their physical and emotional needs, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.

Longtime faculty member David Gardner, Mount Zion Health Plan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, is the new chair of the Academic Senate at UCSF.

A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person's risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).

Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?

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Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received the prestigious 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.

UCSF urogynecologist Sharon Knight, MD, recently returned from Niger, where she treated women with an extreme form of incontinence.