Archive: Who Are You? Depends On How You’re Asked
A new UCSF study reveals that question format may determine how well personal identity corresponds with genetics.
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Archive: New Center Will Advance Life-Saving Genome-Based Diagnostic Tools
Building on its research into the use of genomic technology to diagnose life-threatening diseases, UCSF has launched a research center to explore how this approach to critical care medicine could be integrated into healthcare settings.
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Archive: When Personal Identity Really Matters: Donor’s Reported Ancestry Depends on Question Format
A UCSF study has found when self-identification matters most – in connecting bone marrow donors to patients – the format of the questions may determine how well the answers correspond to their genes.
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Archive: Agricultural Intervention Improves HIV Outcomes
A multifaceted farming intervention can reduce food insecurity while improving HIV outcomes in patients in Kenya, according to a randomized, controlled trial led by researchers at UCSF.
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Archive: Tool Boosts Accuracy in Assessing Breast Cancer Risk
A national risk model that gauges a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer has been refined to give a more accurate assessment.
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Archive: UCSF Ranks Among Top World Universities in 2015 Rankings
UCSF ranks among the world’s leading research universities for the ninth year in a row, according to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
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Archive: First U.S. Study of Transgender Youth Funded by NIH
The National Institutes of Health has awarded $5.7 million for a five-year, multicenter study, which will be the first in the U.S. to evaluate the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth.
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Archive: Common Class of ‘Channel Blocking’ Drugs May Find a Role in Cancer Therapy
Ion channel blockers, commonly used to treat cardiac, neurological and psychiatric disorders, might prove useful in cancer therapy, according to research findings in fruit flies and mice by UCSF scientists.
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Archive: How the Finch Changes Its Tune
Researchers at UCSF have discovered a neurological mechanism that could explain how songbirds refine and alter their songs, a finding that could have long-term implications for treating neurological conditions.
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Archive: Common Medications for Dementia Could Cause Harmful Weight Loss
Medications commonly used to treat dementia could result in harmful weight loss, and clinicians need to account for this risk when prescribing these drugs to older adults, a new UCSF study says.
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Archive: California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine Announces Funding for 2 Projects
Two demonstration projects that aim to yield quick results for patients have been selected by the new California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, a public-private effort launched by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
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Archive: Not-For-Profit Hospitals May Not Trump For-Profits in Providing Uncompensated Care
According to a study of California medical centers, not-for-profit hospitals do not always provide as much subsidized care for patients living in poverty as their for-profit counterparts.
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Archive: Cost of Physician Board Recertification Fuels Questions About Best Outcomes for Patients
As physicians push back against new requirements for maintaining medical board certifications, a study by UCSF and Stanford University finds the costs of implementation will be an estimated $5.7 billion over the next 10 years.
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Archive: Mild Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors Improves Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients
Mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UCSF researchers and collaborators.
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Archive: In CRISPR Advance, Scientists Successfully Edit Human T Cells
In a project spearheaded by investigators at UCSF, scientists have devised a new strategy to precisely modify human T cells using the genome-editing system known as CRISPR/Cas9.
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Archive: For Prostate Cancer Patients, Risk-Specific Therapies Now More the Norm
After decades of overtreatment for low-risk prostate cancer and inadequate management of its more aggressive forms, patients are now more likely to receive medical care matched to level of risk, according to a UCSF study.
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Archive: Community-Living Older Adults with Dementia at High Risk of Having Pain
Older adults with dementia who live at home are at high risk of having pain, according to UC San Francisco researchers, and creative interventions and programs such as home-based palliative care are needed to manage their pain adequately.
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Archive: Low-Nicotine Cigarettes Fail to Sway Smokers
Smokers who successfully lowered their nicotine intake when they were switched to low-nicotine cigarettes were unable to curb their smoking habits in the long term, according to a study by UCSF and San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
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Your Body on Sugar
How too much sugar can make you sick.
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Archive: Vaginal Douches May Expose Women to Harmful Phthalate Chemicals
Women who use feminine care products called douches may increase their exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates.
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Archive: Postmenopausal Women With Depression or Urinary Incontinence Experience Vaginal Symptoms Affecting Daily Life
Special efforts should be made to identify and treat depression and urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women with vaginal symptoms, according to UC San Francisco researchers.
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Archive: Study Finds Donor Funds Fall Short for Key Global Health Functions
A new analysis estimates that $22 billion was spent on global health aid in 2013, yet only a fifth of this went toward such global imperatives as research on diseases that disproportionally affect the poor, outbreak preparedness and global health leadership.
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Archive: Distance Doesn't Make the Heart Grow Stronger for 50 Million Americans
Despite a modest upswing in the number of hospitals equipped to perform angioplasty, a life-saving procedure for heart disease that should be carried out promptly, nearly 50 million residents of the continental United States face travel times of more than one hour to reach them, according to a new study.
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Archive: Extra Heartbeats Could Be Modifiable Risk Factor for Congestive Heart Failure
Common extra heartbeats known as premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) may be a modifiable risk factor for congestive heart failure and death.
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Archive: Age-Related Cognitive Decline Tied to Immune-System Molecule
A blood-borne molecule that increases in abundance as we age blocks regeneration of brain cells and promotes cognitive decline, suggests a new study.
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Archive: Acute Kidney Injury Linked to Increased Risk of High Blood Pressure
Hospitalized patients with acute kidney injury were 22 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure within two years than patients who did not experience AKI, according to a study by UCSF and Kaiser Permanente.
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Archive: UCSF Neuroscientist Named 2015 Blavatnik Laureate in Life Sciences
Edward F. Chang, a UCSF physician-scientist whose seminal research has provided deep insights into how speech and language are processed in the human brain, has been named the 2015 Blavatnik Laureate in the Life Sciences.
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Archive: Three Simple Rules Govern Complex Brain Circuit in Fly
Think the nest of cables under your desk is bad? Try keeping the trillions of connections crisscrossing your brain organized and free of tangles. A new UCSF study reveals this seemingly intractable job may be simpler than it appears.
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Archive: UCSF Researchers Launch Landmark Study of LGBTQ Community Health
UCSF researchers have launched the first longitudinal cohort study to better understand the health of LGBTQ adults in the United States.
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Archive: As Smoking Declines, More Are Likely to Quit
A UCSF study shows that as smoking has declined, continuing smokers have smoked less and are more likely to try to quit.