UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, recently hosted a series of gatherings to give newly elected members to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors an opportunity to hear firsthand the many ways in which UCSF benefits the City and its residents.

Faculty, staff and UC will contribute more to the UC Retirement Plan (UCRP) beginning July 1.

Six weeks into his tenure as dean of the UCSF School of Nursing, David Vlahov recently met with his advisory board to discuss his vision for the school and promising new directions in an era of health care reform.

A study of 1,455 U.S. men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer has found a link between brisk walking and lowered risk of prostate cancer progression, according to scientists at UCSF and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Clinical researchers are investigating probiotics as a way to influence the immune system and to prevent allergic diseases and asthma. So far the jury is still out, according to UCSF researcher Ngoc Ly.

Experts at UCSF and Caltech are pushing the boundaries of creative problem solving to address important clinical problems with the hope that the talent pool at both institutions, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, will advance health care innovation.

Cultural pressure to bear male offspring leads some immigrant Indian women in the United States to use reproductive technology to select sons or abort female fetuses, steps that are illegal in India, according to a UCSF study.