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The deadline for enrolling in the new Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage (Medicare Part D) program is May 15, and many Medicare-eligible seniors and people with disabilities are still confused or uncertain about the complex program. Many have not enrolled.
A Letter from School of Medicine Dean David Kessler.
The deaths of two women who had reportedly used mifepristone (originally known as RU-486) to terminate their pregnancies have renewed questions about the drug's safety.
Marilyn Stebbins, clinical professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and Tim Cutler, assistant clinical professor, answer this latest round of Medicare Part D questions.
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center report that they have found a potential molecular cause for the aggressive growth and spread of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, a highly malignant form of cancer with a very high death rate.
In the first survey of its kind, UCSF wants to know what people think about Campus Life Services available at the satellite locations.
Nonhlanhla Sukati, a nurse educator and researcher at the University of Swaziland, can't forget the face of a now-dead student nurse. It was ravaged not just by a dramatic rash – a herpes zoster caused by HIV/AIDS.
Famed UCSF biochemist Elizabeth Blackburn and legendary occupational health expert Joe LaDou advised graduate students to be wary of conflicts of interest and political and industry influence as they charged ahead with their careers.
Jeffrey M. Drazen, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), discussed the rise and fall of Vioxx and similar painkilling drugs at UCSF's Cole Hall Wednesday.
UCSF is well represented in the first Global Life Science Innovation Competition open to the public on April 21.
A blue-ribbon task force, co-chaired by UCSF Vice Chancellor Bruce Spaulding, has recommended that water transportation be elevated to a prominent level in the Bay Area's emergency preparedness plans.
Providing forearm support is an effective intervention to prevent musculoskeletal disorders of the upper body and aids in reducing upper body pain associated with computer work, according to a study in The British Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
UCSF's history is San Francisco's history. That was true in the 1906 earthquake and again in the 1989 Loma Prieta temblor.