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.

One of the world's most prominent health care leaders, Sir Liam Donaldson, MSc, MD, chief medical officer of the United Kingdom and founding chair of the World Health Organization's Alliance for Patient Safety, gave a talk on Monday, Aug. 28, about medical errors and approaches to hospital safety.

Part of a series marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, an article in Monday's Vallejo Times-Herald profiles some of those who participated in volunteer missions to aid hurricane victims.

UCSF police on Saturday arrested John Tobias, who was reportedly found in possession of stolen property in the Medical Sciences Building.