Even for outer space fanatics, reality must sometimes strike. From Buck Rogers to Battlestar Galactica, humans have shown the rather unearthly ability to race across the cosmos with little impact on their health other than the occasional phaser blast. What is an easily overlooked detail for screenwriters, however, can be a painful fact to real astronauts and shuttle pilots.

City Visions host Yumi Wilson interviews Dr. Louann Brizendine, MD, director and founder of the Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, about her book The Female Brain, in which Brizendine claims the foundation of the differences between men and women are biological.

The campus has named the 2006 scholars for the UCSF Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Scholars Program.

Pregnant women who seek prenatal diagnostic testing to identify genetic or chromosomal abnormalities have a lower risk of miscarriage than previously believed, according to a UCSF study.

The latest rankings rate UCSF ninth among universities worldwide – pretty impressive. Although the rankings – produced by Newsweek International – are among the first-ever international comparisons, there now are a rapidly growing number of groups across the globe that are developing university rankings – and the methods used often are criticized.

On Wednesday, August 23, Rebecca Smith, co-director of the Science and Health Education Partnership — a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District — and Theresa O'Brien from the UCSF Graduate Students' Association spoke with Your Call host Rose Aguilar about science education in the Bay Area and the new science high school at UCSF's Mission Bay campus.

Google chef Nate Keller will give a private cooking demonstration as part of a September 16 fundraiser for the San Francisco General Hospital Trauma Recovery Center.

A former astronaut and researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center will be traveling to the Cosmodrome space-launch site at Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Primary care medicine faces a serious crisis that could threaten the health of millions of Americans, according to a UCSF health policy expert.