The Firefly Project is a free event that features a live reading of letters composed this year by critically ill patients and their healthy teenage pen pals.

Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers.

UCSF scientist Chris Voigt, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and others shared the latest triumphs in synthetic biology.

UCSF has formed a council to help identify needs and develop initiatives to create a more robust community partnership program.

UCSF Today debuts a series of stories this week offering just a glimpse of the many community-based activities in which UCSF faculty, staff and students are engaged.

People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability

A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.

Recent reports from the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere have quantified the health benefits of happiness.

A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.