UCSF

Educational institution

UC, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences.

Thu, 02/03/2011 - 05:00
Variation Helps Us Fine-Tune Our Skills A songbird’s strategy sheds light on how changing our actions helps us perfect what we do
Thu, 02/03/2011 - 05:00
It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions—a choreography of many muscle movements—to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese finch uses a simple mental…
Independent Testing and the FDA
Tue, 03/25/2008 - 22:00
(UCSF: San Francisco) -- The approval process for medical devices doesn’t involve the same rigorous review used for pharmaceuticals, and to improve health outcomes this needs to change, say researchers from the University of California, San…