A new generation of cancer drugs and a successful treatment for an eye disease that can lead to blindness are the fruits of two decades of work by former UCSF postdoctoral fellow and current Genentech scientist Napoleone Ferrara, MD, who has just been named the ...

Released Jointly by UCSF and Kaiser Permanente Northern California Basic physical limitations following breast cancer treatment can have far-reaching consequences that substantially affect how long a patient lives. According to a new study published online in "The Journal of the National Cancer Institute," breast cancer ...

Cancer and infertility can be a double blow. Many women become infertile following cancer treatment. And because more women are living longer thanks to modern chemotherapy and radiation treatment, more are later discovering that they cannot bear children. On the bright side, techniques to enable ...

Sexual development is more likely to occur earlier when a girl's father doesn't live in the home, but only in higher-income not lower-income families, according to new study findings reported by a research team led by scientists from the University of California and Kaiser Permanente ...

The University of California Board of Regents today unanimously approved funding plans for the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. The Board's action is the final endorsement for the project, clearing the way for UCSF to break ground on a world-class hospital complex for ...

UCSF’s Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, president of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), will deliver a prime time public service announcement today for Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). SU2C, a one-hour, commercial-free program to raise funds for groundbreaking translational research ...