UCSF's Habit Abatement Clinic is testing a vaccine that enlists help from the immune system to keep nicotine away from the brain. The vaccine is designed to help smokers quit and to limit the urge to start smoking again.
UCSF/SFGH joins other health Specialists that will provide free immunization services and blood tests to victims of Stephen Brian Turner, an unlicensed doctor who defrauded hundreds of immigrants.
Led by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, more than two dozen members of the Forum of Young Global Leaders got a close-up view of leading-edge science at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.