Lancet Commission Calls for Renewed Global Response on TB
A new report from the Lancet Commission on tuberculosis releases recommendations, providing a path forward to turn the tide on this preventable, treatable and curable disease.
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Give to UCSFA new report from the Lancet Commission on tuberculosis releases recommendations, providing a path forward to turn the tide on this preventable, treatable and curable disease.
UCSF Pride Hall, UCSF’s new research and academic building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, will house more than 800 UCSF employees, including about 200 physician-scientists and clinicians.
A specialized asthma clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital provides personalized asthma care and education for East Bay children and their families.
Three injectable medications, Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro, are often taken as weight management drugs. UCSF health experts weigh in on the benefits and risks of taking the medications for obesity.
UCSF researchers are working across disease specialties. Diabetes researchers are looking at how oncologists use CAR T-cell therapy to reprogram a person’s immune system to attack cancer cells, for example. They hope to similarly reprogram the immune system to fight diabetes.
Holly Ingraham accepted the 2023 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award at Mission Bay in August, 2023 after a career-long effort to empower her mentees and women in science.
An Oregon prison is testing a Norwegian-inspired approach to prison reform that’s designed to bring greater humanity to corrections and improve conditions for staff and prison residents. This includes reducing the use of solitary confinement.
Looking at a baby’s entire DNA sequence through rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) allows doctors to diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases earlier, sometimes even in utero.
UCSF’s engagement survey results were revealed in late June. This article will recap those results, highlight key items in the findings and any action steps UCSF is taking.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first hospital in the West to administer a newly approved gene therapy to treat beta thalassemia with gene therapy, reducing the need for lifelong blood transfusions.
Could the microbes in our guts be a treatment for asthma? UCSF scientists are working to find out.
Scientist proved for the first time that kidney cells, housed in an implantable device functioning as an artificial kidney, can survive inside the body of an animal.