Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.

Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.

With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.

Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.

Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.

Ken Dill believes biology needs a shot in the arm, a theoretical boost of the first magnitude. And to make that leap scientists need to get off the treadmill, step out of the stream, dream a little again.

Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.

For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.

Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.