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On NPR's <i>All Things Considered</i>, Louann Brizendine, MD, neuropsychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, is interviewed about her book, <i>The Female Brain</i>, which attributes differences between the sexes to brain chemistry. Brizendine discusses these differences with Debbie Elliott.
Rene Salazar, Alice Wong and Hamdan Almas will receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards at a special ceremony at UCSF on Jan. 16, 2007.
It has been widely reported that Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota was treated on Wednesday, Dec. 13, for a ruptured arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. To learn more about this condition, we contacted Michael Lawton, MD, associate professor of neurological surgery at UCSF and an expert on AVMs.
Families participated in the Worldwide Candle Lighting ceremony at UCSF on Dec. 10.
UCSF School of Nursing faculty Geraldine Padilla and Erika Froelicher and Frederic Marteau, who is visiting UCSF from Belgium, are among the 2006 Fulbright scholars.
UCSF scientists have determined that adult stem cells in a specific region of the mouse brain have a built-in mechanism that allows the cells to participate in the repair and remodeling of damaged tissue in the region.
Men and women who were born at San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital recently returned to the hospital to share their stories.
James Huang, MD, has joined the UCSF faculty in the Department of Pediatrics as an associate professor of pediatrics, and has been appointed the director of clinical hematology at UCSF Children's Hospital.
UCSF faculty and lung cancer survivors met recently to discuss new developments with the disease.
Cancer immunoresistance may be partially due to loss of a well-known tumor suppressor gene, according to new research led by Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.
Patients who initiate a general discussion about the need for antidepressant medication with their primary care physician are more likely to be thoroughly evaluated for depression than those who make a brand-specific request or no request
Registration is underway for the San Francisco Fire Department NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) Training Program to be offered for free to UCSF staff.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has received a $3.7 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to fund an innovative program that will help underserved elderly Californians learn about and select from Medicare prescription drug plans.