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Last month new “bivalent” booster vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer became available that protect against currently circulating Omicron variants as well as earlier strains of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. This Q&A features Joel Ernst, MD, a UCSF professor of medicine whose research aims to understand how pathogens evade the immune system.
A UCSF study found that step counts, a measure of physical activity, were markedly lower early in the COVID-19 pandemic than pre-pandemic and remained lower on average in the two years following the onset of the global pandemic.
UCSF researchers are part of a $200 million global consortium to develop new diagnostics, therapeutics, containment and control strategies to reduce the suffering from tuberculosis (TB) around the world.
In medical school, Nathan Lo thought we could do more to help the 750 million people around the world with or at risk of getting schistosomiasis. This week, he helped World Health Organization rewrite guidelines to treat everyone in affected communities.
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine, has been an ardent voice for science during the coronavirus pandemic.
Helen Diller Family Cancer Research BuildingExperts from UCSF Health will present new research and clinical findings at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the world’s largest and most
A new analysis looks at how air pollution affects preterm births and other important indicators for newborn babies around the world.
Scientists at UCSF and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda have developed an intervention that makes use of a portable laboratory testing technology to help HIV providers order, process, and receive HIV viral load results quickly, and shorten the time it takes for patients to get their results.
Leading scientists share some of the tools and strategies that could help us better confront and contain future outbreaks.
Few would have predicted last January that a pandemic would upend our daily lives. But one grueling year in, UCSF experts have a clearer view of the path ahead.
A mutated version of the novel coronavirus has been making the news for being more contagious. We asked UCSF infectious disease expert Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, how the new variant emerged, whether available vaccines will still work, and what we need to do now.
