Does the brain treat alcohol like a food? If so, UCSF neuroscientist Howard Fields wonders why alcoholics don't get full...

The UCSF Child Care Referral Service's 2007 summer programs guide is now available for distribution to UCSF employees and students.

Orthopaedic surgeon Rebecca Yu, MD, blogs from Wenzhou, China, where she and Jonathan Lam, MD, PhD, are assisting physicians at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou through an opportunity with Orthopaedics Overseas/Health Volunteers Overseas.

California State Assemblyman Mark Leno will address key issues relating to health care when he visits UCSF on April 20 during the first event of its kind to boost UCSF student political involvement.

Non-high school graduates especially at risk for lower quality of life after prostate cancer treatment

The UCSF Pain Management Center and UCSF Pain Center for Advanced Research and Education have been honored jointly as one of six centers of excellence nationwide by the American Pain Society. They are the only award recipients located west of the Mississippi.

All UCSF employees are required to take an online ethics briefing, which takes about 30 minutes to complete.

Four members of the community will help shape the future of the UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center at Mount Zion.

Two separate bills that would subsidize stem cell research are in Senate debate this week. The White House says President Bush will veto a bill supporting research that destroys viable human embryos. An alternative bill, one supported by the White House, would fund stem cell research on fertilized embryos that are no longer capable of full development.