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Archive: UCSF Health Opens New Clinics on Peninsula
The clinics enable patients to receive UCSF primary, specialty and cancer care in convenient locations close to home.
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Archive: Death Rate Escalates for Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients in ‘Growth Failure Gap’
Children waiting for new livers who are much smaller than their peers have a heightened risk of dying. Despite this, 40 percent of these undersized waitlisted children may lose vital points required to expedite transplantation, due to a ranking system that does not account for their growth failure.
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Archive: Juul Hits Deliver More Nicotine Than Cigarettes, Study Finds
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Archive: JUUL Delivers Substantially More Nicotine than Previous Generation E-Cigs and Cigarettes
JUUL delivers substantially more nicotine to the blood per puff than cigarettes or previous-generation e-cigarettes and impairs blood vessel function comparable to cigarette smoke
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Archive: Bay Area doctors target health consequences of childhood trauma
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Archive: The severe health effects of family separations at the US-Mexico border
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Archive: Mothers, Babies Overlooked in the Drug Crisis
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Archive: Barring Nonmedical Exemptions Increases Vaccination Rates, Study Finds
The first rigorously controlled study of a 2016 California law that aimed to increase childhood vaccination rates by eliminating nonmedical exemptions has found the law worked as intended.
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Archive: Old Drug Offers New Hope for Children with Devastating Disorder
A drug that once helped obese adults lose weight, but was withdrawn from the market due to heart risks, may be safe and effective for children with a life-threatening seizure disorder called Dravet syndrome.
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Archive: 2019’s Highlights from Across UCSF
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
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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: New Personal Fundraising Platform Brings UCSF Community ‘Together’ in 2019
The Together at UCSF platform makes it easy for anyone to create a personal fundraising page to honor a friend, remember a loved one, or campaign for a cause.
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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: Fixing nature’s genetic mistakes in the womb. Will this alternative to abortion or chronic care work?
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Archive: California Selects UCSF Trauma Screening Tool for Statewide Initiative to Combat Adverse Childhood Experiences
The California Department of Health Care Services has approved the use of a screening tool for Medi-Cal patients that helps pediatricians identify Adverse Childhood Experiences that can lead to increased health risks in patients. It is the only tool of its kind to qualify for pediatric Medi-Cal payments.
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Archive: Sidelined: Youth Sports Injuries
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Archive: Many Patients with Anorexia Nervosa Get Better, But Complete Recovery Elusive to Most
Three in four patients with anorexia nervosa make a partial recovery. But just 21 percent make a full recovery, a milestone that is most likely to signal permanent remission.
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Archive: Amid vape epidemic, Marin researcher sheds light on e-cigarette waste
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Archive: Pregnant people are being offered an unproven treatment to “reverse” abortions
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Archive: Minds Scarred by Wildfire: How Disasters Linger
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Archive: The Sudafed Solution to the Vaping Problem
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Archive: Anorexia Nervosa Comes in All Sizes, Including Plus Size
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa whose weight is in the healthy, overweight or obese ranges face similar cardiovascular and other health complications as their counterparts with low BMI.
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Archive: How to survive the daylight saving switch when you have little kids
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Archive: Rare Mutations Drive Cystic Fibrosis in Caribbean
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic is dominated by unusual gene mutations not often observed in previously studied CF populations. Majority of Dominican patients had no detectable mutations at all in the gene that is thought to drive 95 percent of CF cases.
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Archive: New Center to Improve Emergency Response for Children Across Five Western States
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is leading a consortium of more than 60 agencies across five states to establish a West Coast Center of Excellence in Pediatric Disaster Care, aimed at improving emergency pediatric disaster-response capabilities throughout the region.
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Archive: UCSF finds major clue to the cause of sudden-onset paralysis in children
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Archive: ‘Missing’ Virus Detected in Dozens of Children Paralyzed by Polio-Like Illness
Research team has detected the immunological remnants of a common seasonal virus in spinal fluid from dozens of patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The findings provide the clearest evidence to date that AFM is caused by an enterovirus (EV) that invades and impairs the central nervous system.
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Archive: Virtual Reality View of Mutations Can Reveal Better Ways to Treat Cancer
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Archive: UCSF researchers sift through garbage in parking lots to find out what kids are smoking