Archive: MASALA Study Examines South Asian Heart Disease Risks
To keep a person's heart healthy, clinicians recommend avoiding risk factors such as smoking or excessive weight gain. But one risk factor, which cannot be changed, is being South Asian.
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Archive: Are You An Elite Sleeper? Why Some People Are Healthy With 4 or 5 Hours of Sleep
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Archive: Nurse Interactions with Medical Industry are Common but Need Regulation, Study Shows
Nurse interactions with pharmaceutical and device companies are commonplace and beneficial, but they also can lead to conflicts of interest regarding drug treatment and purchasing decisions, according to researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Diabetes Center Forms Precision Medicine Initiative with Prevention Program, Yes Health
This week, the Diabetes Center at UCSF announced that it has embarked on a precision medicine initiative with Yes Health, an all-mobile program to prevent type 2 diabetes.
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Archive: 2015 NIH Funding: A Look at the Researchers Behind the Numbers
Learn more about some of the UCSF researchers who received the top funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2015.
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Archive: UCSF Schools Continue to Lead Nation in NIH Biomedical Research Funds for 2015
For the third year in a row, UCSF's four schools — of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy — topped the nation in federal biomedical research funding in their fields, according to 2015 figures from the National Institutes of Health.
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Archive: Scientists Find Molecular Link Between Zika and Microcephaly
Strengthening the link between Zika virus and microcephaly, scientists at UCSF have discovered that a protein the virus uses to infect skin cells and cause a rash is present also in stem cells of the developing human brain and retina.
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Archive: Researchers Learn How the Bat Got its Wings
An international team of scientists have for the first time identified genes and gene regulatory elements that are essential in wing development in the Natal long-fingered bat (Miniopterus natalensis), a species widely distributed in eastern and southern Africa.
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Archive: PTSD in Veterans Tied to Worse Heart Health
A UCSF study found that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more likely to have worse endothelial vascular function, which plays a key role in blood vessel dilation, blood pressure, clotting and inflammation.
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Archive: Study Suggests ‘Emotional Health’ Implicated in Dementia
Serious and escalating depression in the elderly may almost double the likelihood of dementia, according to a study led by UC San Francisco, and could be an independent risk factor for cognitive decline, rather than just an early symptom of it.
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Archive: Mindful Eating, Meditation May Lead to Better Metabolic Health
A diet and exercise program that included mindfulness training resulted in participants having lower metabolic risk factors compared to those who underwent the same program without the training, according to a study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
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Archive: Black Patients More Likely to Suffer With ER Ambulance Diversion
African American patients suffering heart conditions are more likely than white patients to have their ambulance diverted to another hospital due to overcrowding in their nearest emergency room, according to a new UC San Francisco study.
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Archive: UCSF Research Suggests New Model for Cancer Metastasis
Scientists at UC San Francisco have been able to directly observe, for the first time, how invasive cancer cells create a beachhead as they migrate to the lung in a mouse model of metastatic cancer.
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Archive: Patients at Highest Stroke Risk Not Prescribed Blood Thinners
Nearly half of all atrial fibrillation patients at the highest risk for stroke are not being prescribed blood thinners by their cardiologists, according to a new study by researchers at the UC San Diego and UC San Francisco schools of medicine.
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Archive: Watch UCSF Faculty, Leaders Speak at the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference
UC San Francisco leaders and faculty took part in the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference, a premier gathering in precision medicine.
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Archive: 'Hey Siri, I’m Depressed': Can Smartphones Answer the Call for Help?
Personal voice assistants are increasingly used by smartphone owners for a range of health questions, but in a new study the telephone conversational agents responded inconsistently and incompletely to simple questions about mental health, rape and domestic violence.
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Archive: UCSF Zika Symposium Brings Together Bay Area Experts to Pool Latest Information
UCSF hosted a Zika symposium to bring together Bay Area experts and health officials to to help focus the research agenda as scientists around the world scrambling for information the virus.
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Archive: Saturated Fat ‘Short-Circuits’ Immune Cells To Trigger Inflammation
Research by UCSF scientists has opened up a surprising new avenue for potential therapies to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders that are associated with chronic tissue inflammation in obesity.
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Archive: Better Malaria Prevention for Pregnant Women in Africa
Pregnant women can be protected from malaria, a major cause of prematurity, low birth weight and death in infants in Africa, with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP), an artemisinin combination therapy that is already widely used to treat malaria in adults, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and in Uganda.
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Archive: Triple-Negative Breast Cancers Depend on Fat as Fuel, Research Shows
The most intractable common form of breast cancer might in most cases be treatable by drugs that target fat metabolism, according to UCSF researchers.
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Archive: Poor Communications, Premature Discharges Linked to Patient Readmissions, Study Shows
Hospitals face penalties for readmitting recently discharged Medicare patients, but in 27 percent of cases readmissions could be prevented, according to a UCSF-led study of 12 academic medical centers nationwide.
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Archive: Earlier Intervention for Type 1 Diabetes Sought with New Staging Classification
Two decades of research by the international research network Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet has helped to produce recommendations for a new type 1 diabetes staging classification.
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Archive: Tool Enables Doctors to ID Babies at Risk of Obesity, Study Says
Newborns who are heavier than average and gain weight rapidly in the first six months of life face a heightened chance of obesity by the time they are old enough for kindergarten, according to a study published on March 4, 2016, in The Journal of Pediatrics.
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Archive: 'Brain GPS' Component Allows Brain to Track Location When at Rest
UCSF scientists have discovered a network of brain cells that allows animals to keep track of where they are when they are not moving through space, such as when they are eating, engaged in social interactions, or sleeping.
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Archive: 5 Surprising Ways Your Genes Can Affect Your Sleep
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Archive: VP Joe Biden Visits UCSF to Advance National Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden visited UCSF to meet with top cancer experts as part of the National Cancer Moonshot initiative to develop new approaches that fast-forward the development of novel therapies.
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Archive: Homeless People Suffer Geriatric Conditions Decades Early, UCSF Study Shows
Homeless people in their fifties have more geriatric conditions than those living in homes who are decades older, according to researchers at UC San Francisco who are following 350 people who are homeless and aged 50 and over, in Oakland.
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Archive: Using Big Data to Chart Cancer’s Hidden Genetic Weaknesses
UCSF researchers are using big data to find cancer treatments by mapping gene networks and screening existing cancer drugs to test their effectiveness against dozens of different cancer gene variants.
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Archive: Economics Colloquium Tackles Societal Returns on Health Care Investments
What is the best way to measure returns on investments in health care? What are the economic implications of the global rise in non-communicable diseases? These are just a few of the global challenges taken up by health economics experts at the third annual Global Health Economics Consortium Colloquium at UCSF.
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Archive: Gene Linking Sleep and Seasonal Affective Disorder Found
A newly discovered human gene mutation appears to contribute both to unusual sleep patterns and to heightened rates of seasonal depression, according to new research from UCSF.