Older women with high estrogen levels are less likely to suffer cognitive decline, says a new study from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Sexuality is both an important and confusing part of adolescence. It is also a subject parents and others often do not want to talk about-sometimes going so far as to deny that teenagers have sexual lives.

UCSF researchers have identified the protein that transports the chemical signal to the neurotransmitter glutamate's launch site in nerve cells, offering a possible new target for treating such diseases as Alzheimer's disease.

Women who have undergone a hysterectomy have a substantially higher risk of developing urinary incontinence later in life compared to women who have not had a hysterectomy, according to a University of California, San Francisco study.

Young women who have an advance provision of emergency contraception are more likely to use it when they need it, but its availability does not appear to increase risky sexual behavior, according to a new study by University of California, San Francisco researchers.