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Former department chair Catherine Gilliss, RN, PhD ’83, returned to UCSF last fall as dean, her third deanship at a top U.S. nursing school.
A staggering 64,000 people in the United States died in 2016 from drug overdoses – and a study led by UCSF’s Daniel Ciccarone is aiming to get at the heart of of the problem, including by interviewing opioid users.
A performance at UCSF by Oscar winner Frances McDormand sparks a conversation about facing death.
Teens like Anthony Orosco are using their creative juices to change the conversation about Type 2 diabetes, thanks to a partnership between UCSF and arts nonprofit Youth Speaks.
The odds of being a frequent user of California’s emergency departments dropped in the two years following the implementation of major provisions of the Affordable Care Act in January 2014.
Emergency room physician Debbie Yi Madhok designed a rapid-response protocol for strokes that is improving the odds for patients.
Matthew State, chair of UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry, is playing a key role in an ambitious effort to tackle San Francisco’s dire homelessness problem. He answers some tough questions about the challenge.
Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use laxatives or diuretics, or force themselves to vomit as a means of controlling their weight.
Silicon Valley is helping researchers like Wendell Lim move basic science breakthroughs into translational applications, making treatments available to patients faster than normally possible.
The journey from discovering and developing effective, precise medications to using them correctly and safely in patients is hardly fast and easy. Nor is it a straight shot. Scientists in the UCSF School of Pharmacy are challenging the status quo every step of the way.
UCSF public health researcher Daniel Ciccarone, MD, shares his quest to understand the nation’s opioid epidemic, one user at a time.
The UCSF community is participating in this year’s AIDS Walk San Francisco, which raises funds to benefit dozens of AIDS organizations in the Bay Area.
The new research reveals that the brain’s speech centers are organized more according to the physical needs of the vocal tract as it produces speech than by how the speech sounds.
UCSF researchers have discovered that shark and skate electrosensory systems have distinct specializations that match how the animals use their electrical sense in the wild.
