The September 25 issue of Newsweek features as its cover story "Twenty Top Women on Leadership." One of the women profiled is Renee Reijo Pera.

On public radio's Tech Nation, Louann Brizendine, MD, neurospychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, speaks with host Moira Gunn about Brizendine's new book The Female Brain.

First-year students from all four schools will come together tomorrow for the first event of its kind that focuses on communication and patient safety.

Five UCSF projects will be funded from the largest state-funded breast cancer research program in the nation.

UCSF's Women's Global Health Imperative welcomes this week 28 women scientists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America for the start of a yearlong leadership-training program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center.

Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn has been named a recipient of the 2006 Lasker Award for the prediction and discovery of telomerase.

Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 57, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named to receive the 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.

CBS 5's Kim Mulvihill interviews Louann Brizendine, MD, a neuropsychiatrist at UCSF whose new book, The Female Brain, compiles two decades of brain research showing that the male and female brains are wired, structured and fueled differently, leading to unique talents.

UCSF's Asian Heart & Vascular Center recently conducted a free community education class on traditional Chinese medicine and its role in cardiovascular care.