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Top commuter benefits earned UCSF a place on the inaugural 2006 National List of Best Workplaces for Commuters from Colleges and Universities, awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, who represents the Inner Sunset neighborhood, was among those to give blood recently in the UCSF mobile van.
The Glide clinic is a great example of the value of a nursing model to care for people with chronic illness.
Researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have identified six genes associated with lymphocytic bronchitis, which is thought to lead to obliterative bronchiolitis (OB), the most common cause of long-term failure of transplanted lungs.
A national expert will deliver a lecture on current issues in Asian health at UCSF on June 19.
A core group of UCSF cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiologists has created a growing heart transplantation program with excellent survival statistics by focusing on the particular needs of individual patients and using technology to prepare them for surgery.
Last year, UCSF thoracic transplant surgeons implanted more than 50 lungs, making the UCSF program one of the largest programs in California.
In his 1985 bestseller <i>Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems</i>, Richard Ferber, MD, took on one of the most controversial questions that pediatricians are asked to address: whether or not infants should sleep in a crib alone or be allowed to "co-sleep" with their parents.
A new advisory council at UCSF will focus on strengthening the links between the University and the community.
A joint effort of a dozen local community groups is making a difference in the health of kids in Bayview-Hunters Point.
A great deal of attention is being paid this year to Americans who are turning 60, the first of the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964.
The Gladstone Institute's many civic contributions include advancing scientific knowledge through free public lectures, such as one on stem cell science and politics slated for June 7.
UCSF welcomed students from Fresno's Sunnyside High School recently.
The Firefly Project is a free event that features a live reading of letters composed this year by critically ill patients and their healthy teenage pen pals.
Molly Cooke, UCSF professor of clinical medicine and director of the Academy of Medical Educators, will be one of the featured clinicians on PBS' Frontline series, "The Age of AIDS."
UCSF scientist Chris Voigt, PhD, assistant professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, and others shared the latest triumphs in synthetic biology.
A study led by UCSF neurologist S. Claiborne Johnston, MD, has shown that coiling of ruptured brain aneurysms is very effective during long-term follow-up, similar to outcomes with surgical clipping.
UCSF Today debuts a series of stories this week offering just a glimpse of the many community-based activities in which UCSF faculty, staff and students are engaged.
Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers.
People aged 70 years and older with limited literacy skills are one and one half to two times as likely to have poor health and poor health care access as people with adequate or higher reading ability
UCSF has formed a council to help identify needs and develop initiatives to create a more robust community partnership program.
Recent reports from the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere have quantified the health benefits of happiness.
A native of San Francisco has been appointed to coordinate a new UCSF-community partnerships program.
Even kids who are very ill benefit from a brief moment of pet therapy.
UCSF Police today arrested the past president of the Mount Zion auxiliary on charges of grand theft and forgery.
Nancy Milliken, MD, was praised recently for her contributions to the community-based agency that serves San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point.
Members of the campus and community at large learned how to live greener lives at UCSF's Earth Fest last Thursday.
Faculty and staff were praised recently for taking the extra step in contributing to the success of UCSF Medical Center.
More than 30 years ago, when still a graduate student at University of Colorado, UCSF biochemist Patrick O'Farrell, PhD, invented a way to separate proteins from one another in biological samples, a technique called high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.