You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and while good dietary choices boost your own health, they also could improve the health care system and even benefit the planet. Healthier people mean not only less disease but also reduced greenhouse gas emissions from health care.

Emotional brain training can help you break the stress-obesity connection, a UCSF professor says.

More common in children than autism, SPD has only recently gained recognition as a distinct neurological disorder. UCSF's Elysa Marco explains how her team's groundbreaking research may lead to a greater understanding of the condition, as well as better diagnosis and treatment.

A UC Berkeley study finds that using personal care products free of hormone disruptors makes a difference.

UC San Francisco’s Jason Gestwicki describes his lab’s work developing eye drops to reverse cataracts, a potential boon to millions of people who go blind every year in developing countries because they can't afford (or have access to) the current, successful surgical treatment.

Study finds the birds are uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous breast tissue from normal .

The UC Office of the President's health division has changed its name to reflect its role providing leadership and strategic direction for UC’s five academic medical centers and 17 health professional schools.

Cells are like night club bouncers, says UC San Diego's Amro Hamdoun: With every substance that a cell encounters, it has to decide which to eliminate and which to let in.

In the near future, the Nutrition Facts label on the back of packaged foods will have a new look and more information. UC Davis' Kimber Stanhope explains how this will reveal the amount of sugar that is added to our foods.

An infectious-disease expert at UC Berkeley offers a primer on the deadly Ebola virus.

The virus originated in chimpanzees and jumped into humans 1.6 million years ago.

The landscape for pharmacy education has changed dramatically in recent years, as rapid growth in new schools and student enrollment has eased state and regional workforce shortages, according to a new report from the University of California.