Scientists and staff gathered on Oct. 5 to honor Elizabeth Blackburn, who recently was honored with the nation's most distinguished award for basic medical research.

NBC health correspondent Robert Bazell interviews Jon Levine, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, oral and maxillofacial surgery and a prominent pain researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, on his new research that is showing the differences between how men and women experience pain.

The time has come to ban smoking in all workplaces -- in fact, in all public places in general, UCSF pulmonologist Mark Eisner, MD, MPH, writes in an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Society. Eisner wrote the editorial to comment on a study published in the same issue of JAMA that shows the effects of Scotland's national ban on smoking.

The over 2 million adolescents in juvenile detention in California now have a better chance of receiving the critical health care services they need upon reemergence from incarceration in large part because of the efforts of a first-year UCSF Pediatrics Department resident.

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One of the biggest challenges lesbians face when seeking health care is the complexity of talking openly about health issues with a clinician without the stigma of judgment, disapproval, and condemnation or the fear of having care withheld.

Funded by a $63,000 gift from the New York-based Li Foundation to the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Chinese scientists from Peking University will study the emerging field of systems biology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Four UCSF faculty scientists are among the 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have identified a previously unknown function of APOBEC3G (A3G), a protein that acts against HIV, a finding that may lead to new approaches for controlling HIV infection.