UCSF is gearing up for earthquake preparedness activities, which includes a disaster drill on April 19, when volunteers are needed to participate.

A public health expert and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility will talk about the global gun epidemic at UCSF this Thursday.

Lee Goldman, chair of the Department of Medicine at UCSF, has been appointed dean at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

UCSF's Art for Recovery program was recently selected as the winner of the 2006 international arts competition sponsored by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare.

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine today announced that UCSF and 15 other California non-profit institutions have received the first year of funding for a three-year program designed to train the next generation of stem cell scientists.

Student teams from across campus exchanged oranges, built tents, ferried ping pong balls and crawled in search of fortune cookies in the first day of the Fourth Annual "Battle of the Schools."

A UCSF pediatrician has been elected to one of the premier pediatric academic societies in the United States.

Child life experts say that even the littlest gift, a board game or a stuffed bunny can bring smiles to hospitalized children facing difficult challenges.

A prostate drug increases the likelihood of heart failure by blocking specific receptors in heart muscle cells, a new study finds.