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A simple test that can be given by any physician predicts a person's risk for developing dementia within six years with 87 percent accuracy, according to a study led by researchers at San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
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Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?
Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received the prestigious 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.
UCSF urogynecologist Sharon Knight, MD, recently returned from Niger, where she treated women with an extreme form of incontinence.
A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation.
Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises June 5 to seven distinguished individuals for their contributions to humanitarian efforts and athletic achievements, aerospace and public service, science, literature, medicine, history and the arts.
A longtime UCSF Children's Hospital patient's wish came true to help make taking cancer medicine a little easier to swallow.
John Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.
UCSF has received a $3,872,557 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to expand its nonfederally funded human embryonic stem cell research laboratory and establish a stem cell techniques course for scientists throughout Northern California.
Ellen Haller, Cindy Lima and Ammon Corl will receive the Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and/or Transgender Leadership at a ceremony on June 11.
In <em>SF Weekly</em>'s recent "Best of San Francisco 2007" feature, UCSF Mission Bay's Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center takes the honors for "Best New Gym":
In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried out between 1999 and 2005.
Alicia Lieberman, an expert in infant and child development, has been named president of one of the nation's leading resources on the first three years of life.
Scientist, research dean, teacher and visionary, Keith Yamamoto has seen it all in his 35 years at UCSF. What does he think about today's UCSF science?
Women's health pioneer Judy Norsigian will speak on the media's impact on women's health, during a lunchtime talk on Tuesday, June 5.
UCSF Nancy Hassol will be among those working on the sidelines to make the 2007 AIDS/LifeCycle a success.
The campus community is invited to share their thoughts on the advancement of women staff at UC on June 25.
Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold.
David Julius, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UCSF, has won two awards for his work on the molecular understanding of how humans sense temperature.
States that set high staffing standards for elder care in nursing homes are the only ones that come close to having enough staff nurses to prevent serious safety violations, according to a new study by a professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
Thanks to rarely talked-about recent advances in radiation treatments, young children are surviving cancers that would have been incurable a decade ago. One strategy that is helping to boost survival is radiation treatment provided at the time of surgery. UCSF and fewer than a dozen other medical centers nationwide are at the forefront in advancing this mode of treatment, called intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT).
UCSF's Kerwin Alexander will be among those pedaling the 585-mile AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles next month.