Training program teaches amputees to run, ride bikes with prosthetics.

A new study adds to the health concerns over flame retardants widely used in foam upholstered furniture, and their effect on young children.

Dump your cigarettes, cigars and chew. Come April, they'll be prohibited on campus as part of a UC-wide push to promote health and end tobacco use.

UCSF joins forces with FDA to find risks before drugs reach patients.

Triclosan, found in hand soaps and other products, is shown to hinder muscle contraction in animal models.

Doctors push the medical boundaries to get "unacceptable" candidate back on the transplant list and offer her a new chance at life.

One way to reduce the deaths and disease from smoking is to show farmers how to change their choice of crops. A UCLA researcher has initiated successful crop substitution project in tobacco-rich China.

UC Irvine medical students are showing the world how technology can improve health care.

An intensive muscle retraining protocol developed by a UCLA professor provides the foundation for the remarkable progress of former college football player who was paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident.

Using super-resolution microscopy and continuous fluorescent imaging, physicists have revealed the structure of bacterial biofilms, which are responsible for the tenacious nature of bacterial diseases such as cholera and chronic sinusitus.

Biologists' finding points in completely new and promising direction for the development of drugs to treat metabolic disorders.

UCSF AIDS pioneer continues to uncover the biological mysteries of the virus that has defined a generation.