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.

At the 114th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association on Saturday, August 12, Elissa S. Epel, PhD, will present findings from a review of the current literature on the state of the brain, stress and the endocrine system.

Pamela England, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, has been selected to receive one of four Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards for 2006-2008, given by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.

The first 20 UCSF finishers in this Sunday's Stadium to Stadium Run/Walk will receive UCSF logo T-shirts that include the new University tagline, Advancing Health Worldwide. The T-shirts will be sent to the finishers via campus mail once the results have been compiled.

Professor Marylin Dodd, who is dedicated to improving nursing care for patients with cancer, will present a lecture at the International Cancer Nursing Conference in September.

Hooshang Taybi, MD, MSc, former clinical professor of radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, died at his home in Walnut Creek, Calif., on August 7. He was 87.

The Center for HIV Information at the University of California, San Francisco, is releasing a free CD-ROM containing more than 40 selected chapters from the HIV InSite Knowledge Base ...

A UCSF researcher has determined that a key reason for the epidemic of pediatric obesity, now the most commonly diagnosed childhood ailment, is that high-calorie, low-fiber Western diets promote hormonal imbalances that encourage children to overeat.

On the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The Conversation Hour, host Richard Fidler interviews Elizabeth Blackburn.

On The World (a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston), host Lisa Mullins speaks with David Bangsberg, MD, MPH, an AIDS expert at San Francisco General Hospital and senior author of a new study on AIDS treatment in Africa that may open the way for more treatment programs to reach poor patients infected with HIV.