The US Department of Veterans Affairs will celebrate National VA Research Week, May 7-13, 2006.

How do you say "Medicare Part D" in five languages? UCSF doctor of pharmacy students answered that question and hundreds of others Saturday in a multilingual workshop for seniors at San Francisco's Mercy Housing Mission Creek Community complex.

Maureen Chirwa was one of the women at Bellagio and is one of the team leaders of the stigma study being done in partnership with UCSF.

Several girls got hands-on experience producing a video for the web as part of kids at work day at UCSF.

UCSF police have implemented a number of strategies to prevent crime following a rash of burglaries in the parking garages on the Parnassus campus.

A video depicting the four recipients of the UCSF Medal was featured at the Founders Day banquet at the-Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco last night.

In the first interview with health policy expert Helene Levens Lipton, PhD, Professor of Health Policy in the UCSF Department of Clinical Pharmacy and the Institute for Health Policy Studies, she outlined the threat to independent pharmacies posed by slow and reduced reimbursement.

Faculty and academic appointees may comment on the proposed extension of the policy on supplement to military pay by Friday, May 12.

A study in the April 22, 2006, issue of Lancet finds that estimated conservatively, the economic benefit in the United States from just eight National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded clinical trials exceeded $15 billion over the course of 10 years.

UCSF Home Health Care has announced that it is partnering with Lumetra, Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) in California and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) Center for Home Care Policy and Research (CHCPR) in a demonstration project aimed at reducing the number of avoidable hospitalizations for home health patients.