University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFA large, collaborative study on multiple sclerosis (MS) severity found that a single gene variant is predictive of much faster neurodegeneration in MS patients.
UCSF is one of four U.S. hospitals to be verified as part of the ACS Vascular Verification Program.
With the help of a $33.7 million state grant, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and ZSFG plan to introduce new inpatient and outpatient mental health services for San Francisco youth.
In the wake of long wait times and overcrowding in California emergency departments, emergency visits grew by 23% while the number of emergency departemtns and hospital beds declined.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has debuted a new installation called The Grove by local artist Walter Hood. The piece is the first of several community art installations that are part of ongoing upgrades and expansions to the hospital.
UCSF primary care physician and researcher Alka M. Kanaya, MD, is being recognized with the 2023 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are recognized among the nation’s best pediatric medical centers in all 10 specialties assessed in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2023-24.
A new study shows that newborn screening for SCID is the only factor that actually boosts survival rates.
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative has released the largest study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, providing a thorough look at the causes, consequences, and potential policy changes of homelessness in California.
As part of its miniseries on Black excellence in STEM, Carry the One Radio interviewed UCSF’s Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD. The assistant professor of clinical pharmacy shares how he’s improving cardiovascular care for everyone and how he inspires confidence in himself and his students. Find it on your favorite podcast forum.
There’s only one uniformed service in the world dedicated to public health: the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. This PBS documentary explores its history and highlights some its officers, including former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD ’79, MPH, and former Chief Pharmacist Officer Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87. Stream it on pbs.org.
Drawing on her decades of research and clinical experience, Mahtab Jafari, PharmD ’94, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UC Irvine, sheds light on the largely unregulated supplement industry and empowers readers to make choices informed by science.
Ted Wong, DDS ’84, became the first officer in the U.S. Army Dental Corps to lead two regional medical commands and two major medical centers.
After diagnosing a middle-aged man with an incredibly rare and almost always fatal infection, a medical team led by UCSF fellow Natasha Spottiswoode raced to find a treatment that could save his life.
Skin care is big business, but does it truly take a cabinet full of pricey products to keep our skin healthy?
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries.
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
In a breakthrough, “HT” became the first person in the world to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID.
Tippi MacKenzie is leading grounbreaking clinical trials of therapies aimed at stopping fetuses from developing devastating disorders.
The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
Heather Hervey-Jumper, MD, became director of UCSF’s Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) last summer to do work that inspires and sustains her.