NBC News reports on a San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) and University of California, San Francisco study in this week's issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine about the subtle ways pharmaceutical companies market their products to physicians and patients.

On Tuesday, August 15, KQED-FM's Forum with Michael Krasny assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain.

UCSF congratulates Janice Marchi-Varlow, a Cardiovascular Thoracic nurse, who was recognized recently at the winner of the August DAISY award.

UCSF Children's Hospital helped raise thousands of dollars to benefit children in San Francisco's southeast sector on Sunday.

Christopher Ames, MD, assistant professor in residence in the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery, has developed a technique to remove large tumors, buried deep within the spine, that are often considered inoperable.

The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center is offering a free, eight-week vegan cooking class to the general public.

Cancer researchers are discovering that at least some tumors arise from cancer stem cells that share characteristics with other kinds of stem cells.

UCSF students and postdocs will have a short commute when they move into apartments opening soon at 145 Irving St.

Elevated blood levels of the protein cystatin C accurately predict higher risk of chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular disease, and death among elderly people with no known kidney problems ...

A review of internal documents from the pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis reveals a comprehensive and often ethically questionable campaign to market the seizure drug gabapentin to physicians, according to a paper by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.