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Could Bird Flu Become the Next Pandemic?
Avian flu cases are spiking. Will it spill over into humans?
UCSF Statement: Email Phishing Breach
UCSF is providing notice to local news media regarding an email breach that included the names and some other identifiers of some of our patients.
Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health to Work Collaboratively to Benefit San Francisco Community
Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the quality of health care in the San Francisco community, combining the strengths and resources of both organizations.
UCSF Improves Care Options for Metastatic Gastrointestinal Cancer
UCSF's Division of Surgical Oncology is currently the only center in Northern California offering surgical insertion of hepatic artery infusion (HAI) for patients.
Small Steps Can Yield Big Energy Savings and Cut Emissions from MRIs
Medical centers can reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by up to 51% by turning off MRIs and using a “power save” mode that cycles cooling components on and off.
Made to Scale: Can We Grow More Equitable Health Care?
What keeps you up at night? For Kai Kennedy, DPT, it’s health equity — a complex mission that’s guided a lifelong journey from Virginia to West Africa, the Caribbean to Europe and now the Bay Area. But she didn’t get here alone.
Sugary Drink Tax Improves Health, Lowers Health Care Costs
Oakland residents have bought fewer sugary beverages since a local “soda tax” went into effect, and that is likely improving their health and saving the city money.
Editing Genes in the Microbiome to Prevent Disease
A $70 million grant from the Audacious Project will help UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers edit the genes of microbes in the gut and airways that play a role in asthma.
UCSF’s Division of Cardiology to Partner with Rosenman Institute
the UCSF Rosenman Institute BUILD™ Heart Health program, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, aims to train the next generation of health technology entrepreneurs.
Drug Resistance, Targeted Cell Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks
Leading cancer researchers from UCSF will present at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, held April 14-19, 2023, in Orlando.
There’s a More Humane Way to Monitor Crohn’s and Colitis Patients
IBD patients can avoid uncomfortable procedures such has colonoscopies and MRIs at UCSF’s intestinal ultrasound clinic – the first of its kind west of the Mississippi River.
Clinical Advances Allow Patients to Avoid Open-Heart Surgery
UCSF interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed two novel minimally invasive cardiac procedures for the first time in the health system.