For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.

Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.

Individuals with obstructive sleep apnea repeatedly stop breathing during the night due to upper airway obstruction. This condition is very common, as common as adult diabetes, and affects more than 12 million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. Risk factors include being male, overweight and over the age of 40, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.

Longtime UCSF medical educator Molly Cooke has received an award for exemplary teaching.

The Institute of Medicine has released a report about which fish are the most healthy for kids. Cheryl Davis, RD, CNSD, a pediatric nutritionist at the University of California, San Francisco, was interviewed on what types of meat also are good to feed children.

UCSF Medical Center was one of eight California acute care hospitals among the top 50 U.S. hospitals named by the Washington, D.C.-based Leapfrog Group, a coalition of large employers that works to leverage employer purchasing power to promote high quality health care.

Parents and their children were reunited with those who saved their lives at UCSF Children's Hospital on Saturday.

On the Naked Science Radio Show Podcast, host Dr. Chris Smith interviews Gerard Evan, PhD, FRS, about the causes of cancer and how cancer spreads around the body.

UCSF is not only addressing influenza on a local level, but is preparing for the possibility of an avian (bird) flu outbreak. More than 20 physicians, nurses and other members of the UCSF Medical Center, as well as members of the UC Police Department, campus Risk Management and Environmental Health & Safety, met on Sept. 29 to establish departmental plans in the event that someone arrives at UCSF Medical Center carrying the avian influenza virus, known as H5N1.