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Could You Live Without Sugar?
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Walgreens Dispute Sends Millions of Customers to Rival Pharmacies
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Richmond Mulls Pathbreaking Soda Tax
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Health Care Reform for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
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Should There Be a Legal Drinking Age...for Soda?
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From the Balance Beam to the State Bar
<p>In a triumph of the human spirit and life-saving health care, Angelica Galang, 23, is now attending law school after UCSF neurosurgeon Philip Weinstein removed a five-inch tumor in one of the most complex spinal surgeries of its kind.</p>
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The Trouble With Sugar
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Disabled Bay Area Athlete Dreams of Helping Others
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Combined Approach to Global Health Can Save Lives at Lower Cost
A new analysis published this week demonstrates that confronting several diseases at once is a viable way to make the most of limited donor dollars and national health care budgets, and save more lives.
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Science Uncovers Genes Governing Male and Female Behaviors
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Epilepsy Treatment and Research
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What Patients Talk About When They Talk About Doctors
An analysis of hundreds of reviews posted to physician-rating sites on the Internet revealed that patients generally give their doctors favorable reviews in this forum. If they complain, it is generally about the experience of going to the doctor.
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Science Shows How Exercise Might Help in Prostate Cancer
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Dr. Richard K. Olney, Felled by the Disease He Studied, Is Dead at 64
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Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol and Tobacco?
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Media Advisory: UCSF to Host Symposium on Tobacco Research
<p>A UCSF symposium, “<em>It’s About a Billion Lives</em>,’’ will feature new research on tobacco. A wide range of topics will be presented including discussions about the harmful effects of cigarette smoke exposure, the public health consequences of “electronic’’ cigarettes, and how discount pricing of cigarettes has raised smoking rates among poor people in China.</p>
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The Doctor Can Listen To You Now
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Male and Female Behavior Deconstructed
Hormones shape our bodies, make us fertile, excite our most basic urges, and as scientists have known for years, they govern the behaviors that separate men from women. But how?
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UCSF Scientists Declare War on Sugar in Food
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"Wide-Ranging Applications for Pluripotent Stem Cells"
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Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden
Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide.
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Dr. Richard Olney Dies at 64; Researcher Sought Cure for Lou Gehrig's Disease
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Goals for Blood Pressure in Kidney Disease Patients May Be Unrealistic, Suggests Study
An upward revision of the blood pressure numbers used to identify risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) might actually help doctors provide better care for their patients, said the authors of a study in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
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Sugar Can Harm Like Alcohol and Tobacco; Regulate It, Article Says
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Berkeley Scientists Reveal Promising Speech Gains
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Vigorous Exercise Linked to Gene Activity in Prostate
Scientists at UCSF have identified nearly 200 genes in the healthy prostate tissue of men with low-grade prostate cancer that may help explain how physical activity improves survival from the disease.
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Genentech Drug to Fight Common Skin Cancer Gets OK
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Translating Brain Waves to Reconstruct Sounds and Conversations You've Heard
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Informed Patient: Taking Quality of Life into Account in Health Decisions