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Macy's will illuminate thousands of holiday lights on its 85-foot-tall Union Square fir tree on Friday, November 24, with each twinkling light representing a donation to programs for children facing life-threatening illness at UCSF Children's Hospital.
Why a physician-scientist — and others like him — might be our best weapon against disease.
Employees have until Tuesday, Nov. 21, to make changes to their health benefits during open enrollment.
When Titus Chang was an infant, he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a life-threatening condition which stopped his body from producing enough blood cells.
On <i>The Week</i>, the weekly news podcast from <i>The Scientist</i>, feature contributor Gail Dutton talks with Steven Deeks, MD, associate clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, about "elite controllers," HIV-infected patients who are resistant to the onset of the disease.
Cynthia Kim, MD, a pediatrician at UCSF Children's Hospital, talks to KPIX -TV's Dr. Kim Mulvihill about the FDA warning that users of the flu medication Tamiflu should be monitored for reported bizarre side effects.
The campus community is invited to view a varied collection of art works on display through Friday on the Parnassus campus.
A novel method for predicting the risk of prostate cancer recurrence following surgery that was developed by urologists at UCSF Medical Center has been validated in a recent study.
Friends and colleagues will honor a champion of nursing research and former associate dean of the UCSF School of Nursing tomorrow.
A study of almost 600,000 men aged 70 and older reveals that 56 percent had a routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, a blood test for prostate cancer, even though no treatment guidelines recommend PSA screening for men of that age.
UCSF medical school Professor and Chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Paul D. Blanc, MD, reveals how commonplace products have poisoned significant sectors of the human population in his first book, <i>How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace</i> (University of California Press).
Malcolm John, MD, MPH, director of PositiveHealth Practice at UCSF (PHP-UCSF) and the Men of Color Program, and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Infectious Disease, is interviewed in the KGO studio about why minority and impoverished communities have a higher rate of HIV infection than other groups, and discusses a UCSF program aimed at turning around this trend.