Making healthy foods available may not be enough to spur healthy eating — cooking classes and nutrition education may be needed too.

New study, including UCSF research, suggests that doctors wait longer in the second stage of labor before intervening with drugs, forceps or cesareans.

Positive feedback for losing weight often spurs teens to go to the opposite extreme.

Stem cell researchers, including ones from UC San Diego, report that their work already has yielded historic progress against disease.

After proving successful in mice, researchers hope to launch clinical trials for the vaccine in humans.

Making your own cheese and yogurt is all the rage. Now a UCLA scientist has taken the DIY craze to an entirely new level: making cheeses using the microcritters on human skin.

UC Davis scientists are mixing raw manure with salad greens in order to help protect us from E. coli and other food-borne bacteria.

Vector biologist Anthony James takes a fresh look at how mosquitoes transmit malaria and other diseases.

BPA, found in plastics and food containers, can alter the body's metabolism, making it difficult for children to lose weight.

Programs that try to get employees to become healthier and reduce medical costs have a limited effect on either.

UCSF researcher\'s new book casts the sweet stuff as a toxic contributor to obesity.

Prions, long studied by UCSF professor and Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, build up in the brain to cause Alzheimer's and other dementias. Now they're linked to post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans and in the brain damage of athletes who have suffered repeated concussions.