UC has played a significant role in the development of vaccines that have saved countless lives.

Despite its potentially harmful effects in children, codeine continues to be prescribed in U.S. emergency rooms.

Veterinary clinic provides free services — and holiday gift baskets — for animals whose humans are down on their luck.

Gift to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Oakland will help strengthen children's health care across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord.

Project promises to cut time and cost of conducting clinical trials for brain diseases, while also helping scientists analyze and track brain functions.

Data suggest that diet-induced obesity is a cause, rather than an effect, of laziness.

A drug intended to hobble the body's defense system may actually help destroy dormant reservoirs of the virus that causes AIDS.

Post-mortem studies reveal brain development changes that are linked to autism.

Early signs of neurodegenerative ailment, normally not detected till middle age, now can be seen in adults as young as 30.

Doctors should focus on life expectancy when deciding whether to order mammograms for their oldest female patients.

More new dentists choose to practice out of state; the lingering recession, the elimination of Medicaid dental reimbursements and a glut of established dentists in wealthier, populated areas are among the reasons why.