The Department of Nutrition and Food Services at UCSF Medical Center has recently been awarded two "star" awards from both national and local organizations.

UCSF's Earth Day fair brought out a record-number of environmental enthusiasts on April 13 -- all united around the goal of raising support and awareness for policies and practices to protect the planet.

Arnold Kriegstein, director of UCSF's Developmental and Stem Cell Biology program, endorses the recently proposed ethical guidelines for stem cell research.

With a campus community center and housing complex set to open this fall and more research buildings on the way, UCSF Mission Bay is becoming a bountiful source of jobs for the community.

A natural, non-toxic byproduct of glucose may prevent brain cell death and cognitive impairment in diabetics following an episode of severely low blood sugar, according to researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).

The UCSF School of Dentistry recently completed its accreditation by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CDA), receiving many commendations and not a single recommendation.

Former UCSF physician-scientist Lewis T. "Rusty" Williams, founder and executive chairman of FivePrime Therapeutics Inc., says it wasn't money that motivated him to leave academia it was his eagerness to "move discoveries in the lab to patients for their benefit" faster.

A six-year study of a special type of brain aneurysm -- the thrombotic aneurysm -- has led to a treatment "roadmap" that should mean better outcomes for patients with this unusual medical problem.

Nobel laureate Harold Varmus, president and chief executive officer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will visit UCSF today.

The UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) continues its second year this spring with classes that explore health problems commonly experienced by older adults.