The goal of a new institute at UCSF is to bring better therapies and preventive medicine to more people more quickly.

North Bay-based sticker company Mrs. Grossman's has chosen the Friend to Friend Specialty Shop in UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion as their primary beneficiary of sales from a new pink breast cancer awareness ribbon line being introduced in October to recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The J. David Gladstone Institutes is ranked North America's second "best place to work in academia," according to The Scientist magazine's annual survey, published in its October issue.

A difficult conundrum for the nation's transplant patients was aired September 22 when the news program California Connected featured UCSF's liver transplant program.

Nikon Instruments, UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) announced today the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging.

UCSF will be one of the beneficiaries if voters approve Proposition 1D, the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, on the November 7 ballot.

Putting on a few extra pounds during pregnancy has been thought to be a normal and healthy part of the gestational process. But what happens when a woman gains too much weight, or too little?

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Barbara and Gerson Bakar were among those attending Tuesday's grand opening of Bloomingdale's at the Westfield San Francisco Centre.

Volker Doetsch, director of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Frankfurt's Goethe University, explains how science is flourishing in Germany, thanks to strong government support, particularly for infrastructure and staff. America, take note.