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Archive: Experimental Therapy Gives Children With Genetic Disorders A New Chance At Life
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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Host Annual St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser for Pediatric Cancer Research
More than 150 people have signed up to shave their heads at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland on March 16, to support the 12th annual Brave the Shave fundraiser for pediatric cancer research.
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Archive: Brave the Shave
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Archive: Soft Drink Companies Copy Tobacco Playbook to Lure Young Users
Tobacco conglomerates that used colors, flavors and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers transferred these same strategies to sweetened beverages when they bought food and drinks companies.
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Archive: 4 steps we must take to curb the exploitation of Generation Vape
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Archive: How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks
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Archive: Home Birth Can Be Appealing, But How Safe Is It?
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Archive: Is Your Child An Orchid Or A Dandelion? Unlocking The Science Of Sensitive Kids
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Archive: Kids with eczema may sleep poorly
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Archive: The Endless Cost Of Maligning Abortion
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Archive: ‘Executing Babies’: Here Are the Facts Behind Trump’s Misleading Abortion Tweet
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Archive: Cellular Sickness Linked to Type 1 Diabetes Onset
A UCSF study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 diabetes.
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Archive: UCSF providing free dental care for children
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Archive: I’m Having a Baby: Is a Home Birth or the Hospital Safer?
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Archive: Mother's friendships may be good for babies' brains
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Archive: Functional Insulin-Producing Cells Grown In Lab
UCSF researchers have for the first time transformed human stem cells into mature insulin-producing cells, a major breakthrough in the effort to develop a cure for type 1 (T1) diabetes.
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Archive: How Abortion Law in New York Will Change, and How It Won’t
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Archive: Parents Often Unaware of Kids' Suicidal Thoughts
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Archive: Virtual reality allows neurosurgery patients to ‘tour’ their own brains
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Sugar’s Sick Secrets
The sugar industry has driven decades of biased research that shirk sugar's responsibility for chronic disease. UCSF researchers are uncovering thousands of industry documents to combat this misinformation, and steer Americans away from what is becoming a growing health crisis.
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Archive: Mental Health Experts Discuss Importance of Early Intervention for Youth Amid Rising Suicide Rates
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Archive: Benioffs give $15 million to UCSF Oakland hospital for children’s mental health
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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: $15M Benioff Gift Expands Children’s Mental Health Services in East Bay
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received a $15 million gift from Lynne and Marc Benioff to address the acute shortage of mental health services for children and adolescents in Oakland and the East Bay, which reflects a nationwide shortage.
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Archive: UCSF Initiative Contributes to Major Global Report on Care for Vulnerable Newborns
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Archive: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Named Among Nation’s Premier Hospitals in Annual Quality Survey
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland has been awarded a “2018 Top Hospitals” award by The Leapfrog Group, placing it among an elite group of hospitals that have achieved the highest levels of quality and safety.
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Archive: Machine Learning Helps to Hunt Down the Cause of a Paralysing Illness
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Archive: Measuring Newborns’ Weight Loss With Electronic Health Records to Give Babies a Healthy Start
A new study is using electronic health records to guide management of newborn weight loss.
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Archive: 1 in 10 Will Develop Eczema in Their Lifetime