The American Public Health Association (APHA) Alcohol and Tobacco section has selected Stanton Glantz, PhD, to receive its 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award for his tobacco control research and advocacy work to reduce tobacco use.

UCSF and IBM are collaborating in a broad effort to link UCSF clinical information and research findings in order to help accelerate medical research.

Researchers have found subtle damage in the brains of HIV-positive patients whose viral load is effectively suppressed by anti-retroviral therapy.

Newborns with a severe birth defect that hampers lung growth have ...

When you see Ronnie Lott hunker down to chat with a hospitalized child, it's immediately clear why he and his wife, Karen founded a charity to help children.

Homeless people are at high risk of being victims of sexual or physical assault, according to UCSF researchers.

The UCSF Center for Consumer Self Care has appointed a new leader. R. William Soller, PhD, former leading regulatory scientist and health policy advocate for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association, is the new executive director of the Center in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

When UCSF faculty moved their laboratories from the UCSF Parnassus campus to the new UCSF Mission Bay campus earlier this year, they earmarked surplus equipment and supplies for public schools.

For the first time, Macy's West is making its annual Union Square holiday tree lighting a charitable event, benefiting UCSF Children's Hospital.

Paul Volberding, MD, vice chair of University of California, San Francisco's Department of Medicine and chief of medical service at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has assumed the position of chairman of the board of directors of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA).