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COVID vaccine efficacy varied by age, BMI, sex, and smoking status, with levels changing over six months in a UCSF-led study. Pfizer and Moderna had higher antibody responses than Johnson & Johnson at one month, but Johnson & Johnson overtook them at six months.
Immunologist and UCSF Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) – one of the highest honors bestowed on American scientists.
UCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay and Parnassus Heights earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2023
Avian flu cases are spiking. Will it spill over into humans?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After more than a decade, Jaime Sepúlveda will step down from his role as executive director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences in August 2023.
