UCSF Cancer Resource Center will host "Living and Laughing with Cancer: An Evening of Improvisational Theater" on Thursday, September 21, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Our first volunteer is Louann Brizendine, MD. Brizendine completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine, did graduate work in London at UCL in Philosophy of Mind and History of Science and Medicine, and completed a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
A study published in the August 24 edition of the journal Nature describes a technique that could derive human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo.
On Wednesday, August 23, KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny discussed new research into the effect of stress on heart attacks, particularly among women, with Brian Strunk, MD, chief of the cardiovascular division at Marin General Hospital and associate clinical professor at UCSF.