Researchers say gold nanoparticles can be used to detect cancer cells quickly and inexpensively.

Linda Giudice, MD, PhD, a nationally renowned physician-scientist focused on women's health, has been named the chair of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the UCSF School of Medicine

The tenth annual UCSF Children's Hospital Pediatric Transplant picnic

Several young scientists were honored recently with the 2005 Kathryn Grupe Awards for Excellence in Research on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders.

Organ transplant recipients have a high risk of developing skin cancer, but information about this deadly link has not been readily available to patients. Now UCSF Medical Center is offering a program to remedy the problem.

AIDS Walk San Francisco is more than a month away, but campus officials are already challenging each other in a competition to win the first-ever UCSF trophy on July 17.

A new study based on previously secret internal tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris tried to appear socially responsible by seeking government regulation.

South Korea's successful cloning of stem cells from the skin cells of 11 different patients stood the scientific world on its head in late May.

In a major step to provide a safe and healthy environment, UCSF will significantly reduce on-campus smoking areas to protect human health.