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On Sunday, July 16, the 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco was held at Golden Gate Park. The event drew more than 25,000 people to fight a disease that was first acknowledged 25 years ago and has killed more than 25 million people worldwide.
Sunday, Aug. 13, UCSF Children's Hospital will cosponsor the 5-mile Run/Walk, which will travel up 3rd Street from Monster Park (Candlestick) to AT&T Park.
Several studies have shown that antibody-targeting of drug-laden nanoparticles to cancer cell receptors can significantly enhance antitumor efficacy of the drug cargo.
An Avon Foundation grant to San Francisco General Hospital will enable its breast cancer center to provide genetic screening to uninsured women – the first program of its kind in the country.
The last few years have produced an impressive store of insights and discoveries in neuroscience, but Parkinson's disease remains particularly resistant to treatment.
When hearing the term "executive function," we might conjure up an image of a CEO behind a big desk, doing her daily routine.
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.
Lily Y. Jan, PhD, and Yuh Nung Jan, PhD, both UCSF professors of physiology, biochemistry and biophysics, were asked to present Presidential Award Lectures at the international symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, held this past week in San Francisco.
Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.
The University of California will begin a comprehensive study to examine the impact of the 1996 voter-approved Proposition 209 on the diversity of the student body.
KQED (88.5) radio's live call-in program <i>Forum</i> with Michael Krasny is scheduled to take up the issue of the Senate human embryonic stem cell bill, vetoed by President Bush, at 9:00 am Thursday, July 20 (pending last-minute changes).
UCSF is making some changes to the newly revised shuttle service beginning on Monday, July 24.
Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, spoke to the national and local press about a bill approved by the Senate Tuesday that would have expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.
The UCSF-led Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) held an investigators' meeting in Washington, DC, recently.
The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.