The UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) is offering new classes in health and healing during May and June. All classes are open to the public.

Kathleen Rydar has been named president of That Man May See, the eye research foundation that supports the UCSF School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology as well as patient care at UCSF Medical Center. Her appointment took effect on April 1.

Cholesterol-busting statins, the largest-selling prescription drugs in the U.S., may protect older people from blindness, a new study shows. Aspirin also appears to provide significant protection, according to the research.

Regis "Reg" B. Kelly, PhD, a distinguished neuroscientist and former executive vice chancellor of UCSF, has been appointed executive director of QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research.

Seven new neighborhoods -- indoor neighborhoods -- are taking shape at UCSF Mission Bay as scientists move into the second research building on the new 43-acre life sciences campus.

Kevin Shannon, MD, speaks on "Childhood Cancer: The Glass is Half Full" at the April 7 session of the UCSF Mini Medical School, a six-week series for the public continuing through April 21.

Seventy percent of HIV-infected urban poor in San Francisco are co-infected with the hepatitis C virus, according to UCSF researchers.

The fifth annual "Taste for the Cure" will feature a cooking demonstration by renowned vegetarian chef and author Annie Somerville of Greens Restaurant.

UCSF has been named one of six leadership centers in the country for training health care professionals who want to start palliative care programs.