The founder of fetal surgery, Michael Harrison, was honored recently by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Surgeons.

The campus community is invited to the annual Tomkins Concert & Lecture today in Genentech Hall at UCSF Mission Bay.

As part of our new On the Spot web feature, Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of clinical pediatrics and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH), agreed to answer your questions.

Thomas Parker Vail, MD, has been named the new chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the UCSF School of Medicine. He will assume his new post in January 2007.

UCSF has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide 25 undergraduate students each year for four years the opportunity to engage in a fully funded, hands-on research experience during the summer.

Theodore Kurtz was recognized recently for identifying genetic mechanisms that influence the risk for high blood pressure and diabetes.

A UCSF employee reported to UCSF Police that a white male in his mid-50s tried to pull him into his car on Tuesday near the Parnassus campus.

Doctors have found that nearly half of all Parkinson's patients also suffer from depression, and many patients mistakenly assume that the condition is simply something they have to live with. Not so, say physicians at UCSF Medical Center, who are conducting a study to test the effectiveness of antidepressants in patients with the disease.

Ken Dill makes his case for why science has to go back to the future to leap ahead.

The health status of young adults is far worse than that of teens, with mortality rates more than double due in part to increased rates of injury, homicide and suicide, according to a new analysis by UCSF adolescent medicine researchers.