Educators from the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy are working together in novel ways to bring interprofessional experiences to their students' curricula.

UCSF scientists have identified two suspects in the massive die-off of half a million bee colonies in the US. Joe DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, both Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators at UCSF, have used a powerful combination of a "virus chip" — a microarray with DNA samples of most known viruses and fungi — and "shotgun" sequencing, which identifies telltale DNA from random samples of the biological sample.

Now anyone with an internet connection can benefit from the advice of fetal treatment specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.

Postdoctoral scholar Selma Omer recently worked in Tanzania as part of a Global Health Sciences mission to offer expertise in resource-constrained countries.

Scientists have determined that a specific class of PCB causes significant developmental abnormalities in rat pups whose mothers were exposed to the toxicant in their food during pregnancy and during the early weeks when the pups were nursing.

Almost half of sales visits by pharmaceutical company representatives advocating the use of the drug gabapentin led to doctors stating that they intended to increase their prescription of the drug or recommend it to colleagues ...

Adjustable-height chairs with ergonomically curved seats can significantly reduce neck and shoulder pain in garment workers, according to a new study in the April 20 issue of Spine.

A decrease in hormone use by women has led to a decline in breast cancer cases, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week.

The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, UCSF scientists have found.

Jaime Sepúlveda, a foreign associate of the Institute of Medicine who chairs the Committee on the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Implementation Evaluation, will present the recommendations of that committee at UCSF on May 7.