Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, will publish her first book, The Female Brain, on August 1.

UCSF's Radiation Oncology department reports a few significant improvements, including recruiting a renowned breast radiation oncologist and unveiling a new website.

On Sunday, July 16, the 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco was held at Golden Gate Park. The event drew more than 25,000 people to fight a disease that was first acknowledged 25 years ago and has killed more than 25 million people worldwide.

Several studies have shown that antibody-targeting of drug-laden nanoparticles to cancer cell receptors can significantly enhance antitumor efficacy of the drug cargo.

Sunday, Aug. 13, UCSF Children's Hospital will cosponsor the 5-mile Run/Walk, which will travel up 3rd Street from Monster Park (Candlestick) to AT&T Park.

The last few years have produced an impressive store of insights and discoveries in neuroscience, but Parkinson's disease remains particularly resistant to treatment.

When hearing the term "executive function," we might conjure up an image of a CEO behind a big desk, doing her daily routine.

An Avon Foundation grant to San Francisco General Hospital will enable its breast cancer center to provide genetic screening to uninsured women – the first program of its kind in the country.

Lily Y. Jan, PhD, and Yuh Nung Jan, PhD, both UCSF professors of physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, were asked to present Presidential Award Lectures at the international symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, held this past week in San Francisco.

Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.