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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.
UCSF is well represented in the first Global Life Science Innovation Competition open to the public on April 21.
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's history is San Francisco's history. That was true in the 1906 earthquake and again in the 1989 Loma Prieta temblor.
In April 1906, William H. Levings, grandfather to Susan Levings, associate dean, planning and communications in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was a veteran newspaperman for the San Francisco Examiner.
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.
Stormy skies gave way to sunshine as a symbol of hope for what's to come in cancer research at the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art facility at UCSF Mission Bay.
Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, studies weighty matters - the genetics of obesity. He has identified a mutated gene that is responsible for extreme obesity, at least in a rare and unfortunate few.
UCSF Transportation Services is preparing for the first major overhaul to the campus shuttle routing system since the service began more than 30 years ago.
Inadequate use of screening mammography may be an important reason that African-American women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer than members of other ethnic groups, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco imaging specialist.