The UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine is sponsoring a symposium on February 5 to address the impact of health reform and related issues in the field.

Behavioral weight-loss programs can be an effective way to reduce urinary incontinence in women who are overweight or obese, according to a study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.

UCSF’s Victor I. Reus, who is considered an expert in training the next generation of mental health professionals, will receive a national award in October.

In African American women with breast cancer, high blood pressure lessens the chances of survival compared with white women, a new UCSF study finds.

Two HIV prevention interventions developed by UCSF researchers have been selected as additions to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2008 Compendium of Evidence-based HIV Prevention Interventions.

The deadline to apply for fall 2009 entry into the Master’s Program in Global Health Sciences is Jan. 30.

Members of the community can nominate a colleague for the Milton and Helen Pearl Award for Outstanding Service.

A partnership between UCSF and a San Francisco high school earned the team certificates of honor from the city Board of Supervisors and the California Legislature.