Members of the UCSF community recently recognized three individuals for their leadership in championing rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Mitchel Berger, MD, who chairs the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, talks about his work as president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), a scientific and educational association with more than 8,000 members worldwide.

Creating specialized hospital units for elderly people with acute medical illness could reduce national health care costs by as much $6 billion a year, according to a new study by UCSF researchers.

Rachel Hale, 18 and Monica Joy, 15, have a friendship similar to a lot of teenagers. But unlike most teenagers, their friendship first started at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital while they were both undergoing treatment for gastrointestinal issues.

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells — with a single genetic factor — into cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells.

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, has been appointed to a new state task force established by Governor Jerry Brown to develop a 10-year blueprint for improving the health of Californians.

Members of the community gathered Tuesday to celebrate the "topping out" of the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, which will house more than 284 beds, 14 operating rooms as well as an emergency room nearly three times larger than the current one.