Friends and colleagues will celebrate the life of two longtime UCSF faculty physicians, Elliot Rapaport, a cardiologist and UCSF alumnus of the year in 1994, and Ernest Rosenbaum, a skillful and dedicated oncologist.

A woman’s race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status impact whether health care providers recommend one of the most highly effective forms of contraception, a UCSF study confirms. The results also indicate that the interaction of both factors plays a role in clinicians’ decisions.

UCSF Medical Center and the School of Medicine are launching a mandatory online Privacy and Information Security training program as part of UCSF’s commitment to protect confidential information.

The UCSF community is invited to celebrate diversity in its many forms with special events, including the 22nd Annual Faculty and Staff Art Show, which runs through October 7.

Patients who cannot discuss their diabetes with a doctor in their own language may have poorer health outcomes, even when interpreter services are available, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.

Katherine Flores, a family physician and director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, has been appointed a member of the new National Health Care Workforce Commission.

A diet supplemented with powdered dried plum restored bone lost by mice during the course of normal aging, in a study led by Bernard P. Halloran, PhD, at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.