Archive: Undocumented Immigrants’ Transplant Survival Rates on Par with U.S. Citizens’
Unauthorized immigrants who receive liver transplants in the United States have comparable three-year survival rates to U.S. citizens.
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Archive: UCSF Experts Host New York City Officials on Review of Norway, Netherlands Jail Systems
UCSF correctional health experts are taking a delegation from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, the NYC Department of Correction, and other policy and community experts to Europe to identify design elements in Norwegian and Dutch correctional facilities that could help build a more humane correctional system.
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Archive: Health Experts Weigh in on Mysterious Vaping-Related Lung Illnesses
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Archive: Genetically Tailored Instruction Improves Songbird Learning
UCSF study conducted in songbirds shows that what at first appear to be genetic constraints on birds’ song learning abilities could be largely eliminated by tailoring instruction to better match the birds’ inborn predispositions.
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Archive: Skin Protection May Offer Surprising Benefits for Overall Health
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Archive: Artificial Intelligence That Reads Chest X-Rays Is Approved by FDA
Tens of thousands of Americans suffer pneumothorax each year, a potentially life-threatening condition that is sometimes overlooked in busy emergency rooms.
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Archive: Cancer patients use crowdfunding for medical bills, expenses
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Archive: Cancer Patients Turn to Crowdfunding to Pay for Medical Care
Patients increasingly resort to crowdfunding websites to pay medical bills, a new UCSF study finds that online donations are sought for lost wages, child care and even occasionally experimental treatments.
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Archive: HIV Significantly Increases Risk for Irregular Heartbeat
HIV infection significantly increases the risk of atrial fibrillation.
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Archive: Can the world eradicate another disease?
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Archive: Malaria Could be Eradicated By 2050, Global Health Experts Say
Malaria, one of the world’s leading killers, could be eradicated as early as 2050, according to a new report.
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Archive: David Julius Receives $3M Breakthrough Prize for Work on Pain Sensation
Julius received the prize “for discovering molecules, cells, and mechanisms underlying pain sensation.”
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Archive: Child's Negative Mood Can Lead to Mother's Depression
While numerous studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of mood disorders from parent to child, little research has been done on whether this connection extends in both directions.
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Archive: Liver Transplant Candidates with Public Insurance Have Worse Waitlist Outcomes Than Those with Private Insurance
Patients with similar liver cancer characteristics on the waitlist for a liver transplant had significantly worse outcomes with public insurance compared to Kaiser Permanente or other private insurance.
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Archive: Medical Imaging Rates Continue to Rise Despite Push to Reduce Their Use
Despite a broad campaign among physician groups to reduce the amount of imaging in medicine, the rates of use of CT, MRI and other scans have continued to increase.
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Archive: Scientists combing human DNA for 'gay genes' spark debate about quest for genetic link to sexuality
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Archive: Millennial And Gen-X Travelers: Need Another Measles Shot?
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Archive: Weed For Pain? Public Confidence Is High But Evidence Is Slim
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Archive: UCSF researchers prove genetics allow some people to function on less than 6 hours of sleep
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Archive: After 10-Year Search, Scientists Find Second ‘Short Sleep’ Gene
UCSF scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” have discovered a second.
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Archive: Most long-term acute care hospital patients die within five years
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Archive: UCSF Gets New Money to Study the ‘Galaxies’ Within You (Your Microbes)
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Archive: Study Questions Mainstay Treatment For Mild Asthma
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Archive: Study Finds New Blood Test Could Help Detect Brain Injury In Minutes
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Archive: Simple Blood Test Unmasks Concussions Absent on CT Scans
Blood test that is currently under development may flag concussion in CT-negative patients, enabling them to be evaluated for long-term complications.
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Archive: Chemical Exposure Web Tool Defines Risks Faced by Millions of California Women
A new web tool spells out for the first time the exposures that more than 6.5 million working women in California face that could increase their risk for breast cancer, including industrial solvents, antimicrobials and phthalates.
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Archive: Tobacco Vs. E-Cigarette Use Differs Among SF Public Schools
Eighty-eight percent of the e-cigarette waste collected was found at schools serving predominantly upper-income families with mostly white student populations. None were found at schools serving predominantly low- and middle-income families with large Latinx and African American populations.
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Archive: Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire
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Archive: Scorpion Toxin That Targets ‘Wasabi Receptor’ May Help Solve Mystery of Chronic Pain
Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor,” which they think it can be used as a tool for studying chronic pain and inflammation, and may eventually lead to the development of new kinds of non-opioid pain relievers.
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Archive: Increasing Blood Pressure Medications at Hospital Discharge May Pose Serious Risk
Increasing medications for blood pressure when discharging older patients from the hospital may pose a greater risk of falls, fainting and acute kidney injury that outweighs the potential benefits.