An expert in post-traumatic stress has co-authored a new books that helps veterans adjust to their lives after war.

The campus community is invited to hear some of the most highly respected and dynamic women leaders in their respective fields at a symposium on May 16 and 17.

UCSF is expanding its child care centers, including new modular classrooms arriving this week to the Mission Bay campus.

Fluoride varnish, a dental preventive treatment, reduces the incidence of early childhood tooth decay in combination with dental health counseling for parents, according to a study by investigators at the UCSF School of Dentistry.

B. Joseph Guglielmo, Jr., PharmD, a nationally recognized expert on the use of drugs to control infection, has been named chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

A team of geneticists, including UCSF's Neil Risch, reports in the New England Journal of Medicine that a single mutation is a major cause of Parkinson's disease among Ashkenazi Jews — Jews of Eastern European origin who make up most of the world's Jewish population.

Arnold Kriegstein, director of UCSF's Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology, recently participated in a discussion of the future of stem cell research following the admission of fraud in a prominent South Korean laboratory.

Neil Risch, director of UCSF's Institute for Human Genetics, comments in the New England Journal of Medicine on the challenges and implications of teasing apart genetic differences among ethnic groups that may affect both their vulnerability to disease and the type of treatment they receive.

A UCSF research team has gained a new glimpse into the circuitry that directs the fate of cells: whether they will grow, change shape or succumb to pathogens.