Are Any Childhood Medical Myths Actually True?
Drink ginger ale for a bellyache. Don’t swim after eating. Does any advice doled out to kids hold up?
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Give to UCSFDrink ginger ale for a bellyache. Don’t swim after eating. Does any advice doled out to kids hold up?
Our genome may one day serve as a passport guiding our health care – from cradle to grave.
A grief facilitator and UCSF chaplain shares some advice on processing loss.
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
How a suite of advanced 3D technologies is ushering in surgery’s most sophisticated era yet.
A new clinic will match Black babies with Black healthcare providers to improve outcomes for both moms and kids.
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.
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
The WISDOM 2.0 study aims to transform breast cancer screening by using a personalized approach and will expand to women as young as 30.
We spoke with Ellen Herbst, MD, a UCSF psychiatrist and mother of two, about how the climate crisis is impacting the mental health of children and adolescents – and what parents can do to help.
Most hospitals don’t adequately treat children’s pain, say UCSF experts. Can their unique approach help stop the suffering?
Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.
On the operating table and inside the lab of a rising star in cancer neurosurgery.
A less meticulous physician might have mistaken the man’s complaints for run-of-the-mill vascular disease. Not UCSF resident Ori Lieberman.
Companies claim there’s bad stuff in our homes and bodies, and we should pay to purge it. What’s worth worrying over?
Black youth who attend racially segregated schools are more likely to have behavior problems and to drink alcohol than Black youth in less segregated schools, according to a UCSF study published in Pediatrics.
Leading scientists share some of the tools and strategies that could help us better confront and contain future outbreaks.
Researchers from the UCSF School of Nursing have joined a newly launched national collaborative to study the impacts of COVID-19 on members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities.
Six health care experts grapple with how to address race without being racist.
Scientists at UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley and UCLA have received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to jointly launch an early phase, first-in-human clinical trial of a CRISPR gene correction therapy in patients with sickle cell disease using the patient’s own blood-forming stem cells.
In the week after former President Donald J. Trump tweeted about “the Chinese virus,” the number of coronavirus-related tweets with anti-Asian hashtags rose precipitously, a new study from UCSF has found.
Tissue biologist Sarah Knox has long been fascinated with saliva. Just when she begins to doubt whether her singular passion will lead to real-world impact, an old family friend reaches out to her with a problem only she may be able to solve.
A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.