Nominations for the Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Service and the Chancellor's Award for Exceptional University Management are due on February 2.

As California's governor and lawmakers prepare to hammer out a plan for universal health insurance coverage, health economics expert Jack Rowe, MD, will offer a broader perspective on America's health care crisis when he delivers the second UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture at noon on Thursday, Jan. 11.

Calling aging a disease is old hat. What matters, says Cynthia Kenyon, is healthy lifespan...

A simple blood test for the protein NT-proBNP accurately predicts the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and death in patients with known cardiovascular disease, according to a study led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

Advances in medical technology are a main factor driving the trend of increasing health care costs, and industry stakeholders agree that improved evaluation methods are needed ...

UCSF will celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with a series of events beginning January 11.

In 1902, smallpox and influenza were among the contagious diseases threatening New York City schoolchildren. To help treat and prevent these diseases, the district hired a nurse named Lina Rogers. In just her first month of service, Rogers worked with hundreds of students and their families, both at school and in students' homes. When the Board of Health hired a dozen additional nurses to help with the workload, school nursing was born.

Over the holiday period, the Parnassus Heights campus experienced several burglaries of a similar nature that impacted offices in the Medical Sciences Building and the School of Nursing.

Top Malaysian bioscience graduate students and postdoctoral scientists will have a chance to study in the Bay Area as part of a new program aimed at boosting Asia's ability to find treatments for some of the world's most devastating diseases.