Author Curtis Pesmen will discuss his personal experience in surviving colon cancer at a community education event Thursday, October 20, at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Women with breast cancer will reap the benefits when the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center presents "Taste for the Cure" during the week of October 15-23.

Books from the UC libraries will be scanned and made freely available online through a new consortium.

The Gladstone Institutes is helping to boost the numbers of minorities advancing to college and pursuing science careers.

A UCSF doctoral nursing student recounts her eye-opening, 10-day experience caring for the ill and injured after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.

Smoking and drinking excessively seems to cause more brain damage than just drinking too much alone, a new study finds.

Clinical trials of drugs intended to prevent HIV infection in high-risk populations must be developed and carried out in close collaboration with the local communities and national governments ...

Scientists gathered at UCSF Mission Bay on Sept. 20 offered a mix of explanation, debate and reflection on the fledgling field of stem cell research.

Alcoholics who smoke appear to lose more brain mass than alcoholics who don't smoke, according to a study at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.