While there's been a steep decline in kids’ consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in California, African-American and Latino children may be replacing soda with 100 percent fruit juice while their white peers are not, according to a new UCSF study.
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May 30, 2013
UCSF has long led the way in demonstrating the positive effects of living a healthy lifestyle. Turns out, a healthy lifestyle can not only keep illness at bay, but it may even stop a disease like cancer dead in its tracks.
May 29, 2013
The academic endeavors and innovative research that distinguish UC San Francisco were on display earlier this month at the 12th annual Inter-School Research and Scholarly Activity Festival.
May 29, 2013
At this year's Graduate Division commencement ceremony, UCSF celebrated the achievements of 104 master’s students, 43 doctoral students in physical therapy, and 121 PhD students.
May 28, 2013
WHAT: The UC San Francisco Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. No appointment is necessary and no insurance is required.
WHEN: Saturday, June 1, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The screenings will take approximately 30 minutes.
WHERE: Castro Mission Health Center
3850 17th Street at Noe Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
May 24, 2013
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital opened a new pediatric emergency department on the Parnasssus campus in April to help fill the need for child-focused emergency services in San Francisco.
May 23, 2013
UCSF classmates Noah Hawthorne and Kris Coontz graduated this month from the School of Medicine after starting a nonprofit dedicated to improving health care for people in Nicaragua.
May 22, 2013
UCSF will commemorate the 15th anniversary of a unique scientific research program that fosters basic science projects of potentially high impact, allowing scientists to be creative and to take risks.
May 22, 2013
UCSF researchers have found that activity of an enzyme called telomerase is greater, on average, within cells of the immune systems of individuals untreated for major depression.
May 22, 2013
The many ways in which UCSF students reach out to the community are as diverse as San Francisco itself, from combating Hepatitis B to hosting radio shows about science careers.
