Dean Kathleen Dracup says the UCSF School of Nursing must prepare for student enrollment growth and the eventual retirement of its aging faculty.

UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Carlos Muñoz Jr. will talk about the struggle for a multicultural democracy today at noon.

Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.

Research at the University of California, San Francisco found a racial disparity in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

If you could learn your odds of getting cancer, heart disease or diabetes, would you? A new generation of home genetic testing kits allows anybody with a cotton swab and a mailbox to find out. But does convenience come with a privacy risk?

Some say extended cycle birth control pills are revolutionizing contraception for many women because it provides fewer periods, which means less pain, PMS and inconvenience, but is it safe? UCSF neuropsychiatrist and female hormone specialist Louann Brizendine, MD, says various forms of extended cycle pills have been used for years.

KPIX-TV's HealthWatch reports that the CDC has collected more than 500 complaints about adverse reactions to Merck's HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine Gardasil, including soreness at the injection site, fainting or dizziness, and fever or nausea.

Chief surgeon William Schecter received the 2007 Special Hero Award from the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation recently.

Samantah Shenoy has received the January DAISY Award for exemplary care at UCSF Medical Center.

Moviemaking must be an art, because it usually gets the science all wrong...