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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).
Campus and medical center teams will participate in a joint disaster drill on Wednesday to test their response to an earthquake like the 1906 temblor.
There are two types of diabetes that affect children. Do you know the factors that can put a child at risk? Steve Rosenthal, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor of pediatrics at UCSF, talks about pediatric obesity.
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.
Chao Tang, nonlinear dynamic systems and the importance of play.
San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, set to become the first female Speaker of the House in history, was among those to recognize Charlene Harrington for a lifetime of contributions recently.
Venom from a West Indian tarantula has been shown to cause pain by exciting the same nerve cells in mice that sense high temperatures and the hot, spicy ingredient in chili peppers, UCSF scientists have discovered.
Honors and awards presented to faculty, staff, and students are an important part of the UCSF story that we want to share.
In his 41 years as a professor and electrophysiologist at UCSF, Melvin Scheinman, MD, has shocked thousands of hearts back to health with a procedure called ablation therapy.
"The injected cells survive and slow down abnormal heart rhythms," says Jeffrey Olgin, MD, the physician and researcher who heads the Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service at UCSF.
The campus community recently saluted best practices in achieving diversity among faculty and staff at UCSF.
Words like "pioneering," "original," and "premier," can sometimes overstate a single person's contributions to any field, let alone a medical research specialty, which often moves along lines of collaboration and consensus.