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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: 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: Faced With Criticism, Trump Administration Reverses Abrupt End to Humanitarian Relief
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Archive: UCSF Gets New Money to Study the ‘Galaxies’ Within You (Your Microbes)
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Archive: Why Warning Pregnant Women Not to Drink Can Backfire
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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: UCSF making sure breastfeeding mothers get the help they need
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Archive: Pregnant moms who breathe dirty air have children with lower IQs, study finds
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Archive: Marc and Lynne Benioff Donate $35M to UCSF, Stanford to Advance Microbiome Science
The gifts will launch new research initiatives on their respective campuses to leverage the growing science of the human microbiome.
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Archive: Gift Launches New UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
UCSF researchers aim to radically rethink the role of the microbiome in early life and develop new interventions aimed at preventing childhood diseases.
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Archive: UCSF Names Pediatrics Chair, Physician-in-Chief for Benioff Children’s Hospitals
Raphael Hirsch comes to UCSF from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he served as chair of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
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Archive: Why World Breastfeeding Week is so important
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Archive: Why More Pregnant Women Are Having Scans
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Archive: Worrisome Increase in Some Medical Scans During Pregnancy
Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, with nearly a four-fold rise over the last two decades in the number of women undergoing CT scans.
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Archive: Latitude Food Allergy Care and UCSF Health Form Strategic Alliance
UCSF Benioff Children’s Physicians foundation signed a partnership agreement with Latitude Food Allergy Care to expand access to medical care for children with food allergies and provide an important referral option for clinicians whose patients require specialty food-allergy care.
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Archive: Allergy, Asthma Risk Are Increased by Microbial Compound in Infant Gut
A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.
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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: Women in Labor Can’t Hold In Their Babies. Nurses Tell Them To Do It Anyway
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Archive: Death of 9-year-old Milpitas boy to common virus perplexes doctors
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Archive: Some teens who exercise to build muscle might have eating disorders
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
Is your child hardy and resilient or more sensitive and fragile? UCSF pediatrician Thomas Boyce, MD, has spent nearly 40 years studying the human stress response, especially in children. In this new book, he explores how most kids tend to be like dandelions, able to cope with stress and adversity, but a minority are like orchids, extremely sensitive to their environments. Boyce shares how – given supportive, nurturing conditions – orchid children can thrive.
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Dilan’s Superhero Journey to Healing
Clad in an exoskeleton that looks like mechanical armor, 12-year-old Dilan Horwitz could be mistaken for a superhero – an assessment that wouldn’t be entirely wrong.
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Archive: WIC Changes Improve Moms' and Babies' Health
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Archive: Offspring of Pregnant Women Exposed to High Level of Pollutants May Have Lower IQs
A new study has found that pregnant women exposed to higher levels of air pollutants had children with lower IQs.
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The UCSF Guide to Healthy and Happy Eating
Healthy eating can be difficult to do, especially when the science isn’t clear. Our experts have weighed in to give you the best advice based on solid research, allowing you to make better choices when it comes to your nutrition.
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Archive: Fun and Life Skills Help Combat Childhood Obesity in East Oakland
Interventions that involved group education, peer discussion and various hands-on activities, including food preparation, exercise sessions, martial arts and hip-hop dancing, reduced soda consumption and increased exercise.
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When Federal Food Program Offered Better Options, Maternal and Infant Health Improved
A major 2009 revision to a federal nutrition program for low-income pregnant women and children improved recipients’ health on several key measures.
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Archive: More Years of Childhood Education May Reduce Adult Heart Disease Risk
State policies requiring children to attend additional years of school may result in a reduced risk for heart disease and improvements in several cardiovascular risk factors in adulthood.
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Archive: UCSF Benioff Children's, Packard Children's hospitals ranked among best in nation