Archive: UCSF’s 11 Most Popular Health and Science Stories of 2019
Browse the stories that most engaged our readers in 2019.
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Archive: In Childhood Cancer, Private Insurance Means Better Survival
Children and young adults with pediatric cancer are less likely to be alive five and 10 years following diagnosis if their health insurance is public, compared to those with private insurance.
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Archive: This Doctor Wants to Use Salesforce Blockchain to Cut Cancer Drug Development Costs in Half
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Archive: Researchers Halt Spread of Breast Cancer by Blocking Metastasis-Promoting Enzyme
In a breakthrough with important implications for the future of immunotherapy for breast cancer, UCSF scientists have found that blocking the activity of a single enzyme can prevent a common type of breast cancer from spreading to distant organs.
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Archive: UCSF Tops US News Global University Rankings in 9 Research Areas
Now in its sixth year, the Best Global Universities rankings focus on schools’ academic research and reputation.
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Archive: Virtual Reality View of Mutations Can Reveal Better Ways to Treat Cancer
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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: 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: 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: Confused About Sunscreen Ingredients? Here's What We've Learned
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The Real Chernobyl: Q&A With a Radiation Exposure Expert
We talked with Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, about the real-life health impacts from the disaster portrayed in the HBO miniseries.
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Archive: Rare disease discovery: Antibodies fighting cancer go on to attack brain
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Archive: Scientists Discover Autoimmune Disease Associated with Testicular Cancer
Using advanced technology, scientists have discovered an autoimmune disease that appears to affect men with testicular cancer.
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Archive: A Decade of Research Sharpens View of Brain Tumor Genetics, Causes
Today, our understanding of glioma subtypes has expanded to include the molecular and genetic variants that can influence a tumor’s development, prognosis, and response to treatment.
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Archive: You Might Have Sunscreen In Your Blood - But Don't Freak Out Just Yet
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Archive: 23andMe gene test might falsely reassure some people of breast cancer risk: Study
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Archive: ‘Super-Hero’ Stem Cells Survive Radiation to Regrow Muscles
Muscle damage is a common side effect of radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and is made worse because the very stem cells responsible for repairing injured muscles typically bear the brunt of
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Archive: Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
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Archive: Cancer-Killing Combination Therapies Unveiled with New Drug-Screening Tool
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when used alone. Using this
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Archive: Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System
Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that until recently would have been considered untreatable are experiencing
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Archive: Cancer’s Trick for Dodging the Immune System
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Archive: UCSF Fellow Tackles an Urgent Threat to Women's Health in Kenya
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, is committed to tackling the public health effects of gender inequality and helping to improve cervical cancer screening in Kenya.
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Archive: Common Pain Reliever Can Improve Survival in Head and Neck Cancer
Regular use of a common type of medication, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, significantly improves survival for a third or more patients with head and neck cancer, a new study led by UCSF has found.
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Archive: $26 Million ‘Grand Challenge’ Project Will Probe Role of Inflammation in Cancer
UCSF's Thea Tlsty is a winner of the “Grand Challenge” competition sponsored by Cancer Research UK. Her international team will receive $26 million to uncover how chronic inflammation causes cancer.
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Archive: Drug Hobbles Deadly Liver Cancer by Stifling Protein Production
In laboratory experiments, UCSF researchers successfully beat back the growth of aggressive liver cancers using a surprising new approach.
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Archive: Radiation Dose in CT Scans Varies Due to Scanners’ Technical Settings
The amount of radiation that patients are exposed to from CT scans varies widely between institutions and countries, and is largely due to differences in the technical settings of the scanning machines.
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Archive: Prostate Cancer Disparities Greatest in Low-Risk Disease
Study, led by UCSF, raises intriguing questions about whether the biology of low-risk prostate cancer in black men is distinct from that of other ethnicities.
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Archive: Most Popular Science Stories of 2018
From sensory processing disorder to how CRISPR is being explored to bring new treatments to patients, these are the stories that most engaged our readers in 2018.
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Archive: Depression, Anxiety May Take Same Toll on Health as Smoking and Obesity
Anxiety and depression may be leading predictors of conditions ranging from heart disease to headaches, having similar effects as long-established risk factors like smoking and obesity.