While many college students use their senior year as a time to wrap up coursework and study for finals, Tori Sutherland chose this time to experience women's health hands on.

A mother of three is now a career employee at UCSF thanks in part to a community outreach program.

UCSF pediatric oncology specialists have developed a new tool in an effort to address the needs of survivors of childhood cancer: a pocket-sized "health passport" the size of a credit card.

UCSF Medical Center has begun the process of accepting some 1,500 Kaiser Permanente patients into its Kidney Transplant Service.

Top commuter benefits earned UCSF a place on the inaugural 2006 National List of Best Workplaces for Commuters from Colleges and Universities, awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Miss America 2006 took time out on Tuesday to cheer up a few ailing youngsters at UCSF Children's Hospital.

In one of the first programs of its kind, UCSF has helped a total of 80 students get a second chance at dental school.

Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the Inner Sunset neighborhood, was among those to give blood recently in the UCSF mobile van.

Researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have identified six genes associated with lymphocytic bronchitis, which is thought to lead to obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), the most common cause of long-term failure of transplanted lungs.

Last year, UCSF thoracic transplant surgeons implanted more than 50 lungs, making the UCSF program one of the largest programs in California.