Clinicians dream of being able to diagnose cancer reliably with a simple lab test. Cancerous cells make some proteins abnormally. Some of these proteins are secreted or shed, and make their way into body fluids. The quest to identify proteins in blood or urine that signal the presence of cancer has long been a focus of research.

The campus community is invited to celebrate Women's History Month in March, when UCSF hosts several events.

Nurses at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center will be among the first health care workers to use a tablet-like PC called a mobile clinical assistant (MCA), developed specifically for medical professionals by Intel and Motion Computing. Motion Computing's C5 is the first product based on Intel's MCA platform and has earned support from clinicians and nurses participating in pilot studies around the world.

A memorial service will be held this Friday for Jere Edwin Goyan, PhD, former dean of UCSF's School of Pharmacy, who died Jan. 17.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger attended an event Friday where research grants for stem cell research were handed out. KGO-TV reports that now that grants have been given out there is still concern about how long it will take to make the research a reality.

California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi visited UCSF last Friday when he heard about plans to build a new stem cell research building.

Media pioneer and author Jerri Lange will discuss the "Power, Magic and Imagination of the Media" at UCSF on today (Feb. 20.)

The School of Pharmacy has joined in the effort to donate blood as a way to celebrate the centennial of the School of Nursing.

The number of medical students in the United States choosing careers in primary care has drastically fallen, threatening the foundation of the United States health care system overall.

SAN FRANCISCO -- As evidence mounts that the body's normally protective inflammation response can drive some precancerous tissues to become fully malignant, UCSF scientists report discovering an apparent trigger to this potentially deadly process.