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Enrollment day for community college was supposed to mark a new beginning. Instead, Andrew woke with a searing headache. Soon, a massive brain bleed from a rare blood-vessel abnormality caused a major stroke. Airlifted to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, he underwent lifesaving surgery and began the long, difficult work of relearning how to walk and talk. This short video captures Andrew’s strength and the expert care that helped him reclaim his life.
This incisive look at the fast-growing egg-donation industry follows donors whose bodies help create families yet often go unseen. Through international fieldwork, author Diane Tober, PhD — a UCSF-affiliated medical anthropologist — reveals how hope, profit, and uneven care collide in a system where reproductive technology can turn human eggs, and their providers, into commodities.
Jian Zhang, MSN ’92, DNP, has spent her career strengthening culturally responsive care in San Francisco’s Chinatown. “I felt like I could impact the Chinese community most there,” says Zhang, the 2025 UCSF Nursing Alumni Association Jane Norbeck Distinguished Service Award winner.
How hope and resilience fueled UCSF alum Jonathan Pascual’s greatest race.
At the new Weill Cancer Hub West, Kole Roybal, PhD, is reimagining how immune cells fight solid tumors.
The mouth is a powerful lens on overall health and disease. Researchers are uncovering its wide-ranging roles — from early cancer detection to its microbiome’s surprising influence on immunity and pregnancy.
It’s a laser-focused, germ-fighting army — and so much more.
From preparation to privacy, UCSF experts explain how to get safe, stress-free virtual care.
UCSF’s Robert Wachter, MD, a leading voice on the impact of technology on medicine, explores what generative Al can — and can't yet — do for patient care.
A UCSF study is revealing why South Asians develop heart disease even at healthy weights. It’s also changing how doctors screen for it.
New UCSF research reveals that Child-Parent Psychotherapy repairs a biological process that could benefit kids for life.
UCSF engineers are growing tiny, organ-like structures from human cells. The technology could change how we test new drugs — and how we heal our bodies.
The hormone’s role in women’s health reaches far beyond reproduction.
Learn about the evolving conversation around hormone therapy.
Johannes R. Kratz, MD, has been named as the inaugural chief of UCSF’s Division of Thoracic Surgery, one of the leading academic robotic thoracic surgery programs in the western U.S. He brings a track
Researchers found a "garbage man" enzyme that tags toxic clumps of proteins in the brain for removal, and saw a correlation with resilience against dementia.
UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.
Discover how UCSF is leading the charge in Long COVID research, uncovering key findings that advance our understanding of the condition. UCSF researchers have adapted innovative tools and methodologies—originally developed during the AIDS/HIV epidemic, such as testing, tissue banking, clinical trials, and studies—to tackle the complexities of Long COVID.
UCSF psychiatrists may have documented what is likely the first case of AI psychosis in a peer-reviewed journal. He tells us what to know as media reports about cases mount.
UCSF researchers found evidence that stress occurring as early as before birth or as late as adolescence can affect multiple conditions in kids, from asthma to mental health to cognitive functioning.
Close to 40% of adult patients receive post-acute care (PAC) when they are discharged from a hospital. That can include receiving help at home or going to a specialized facility, including a skilled
UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old fibroblasts were rejuvenated: they multiplied (green) and produced more of the material used to make the "skeletons," or extracellular matrix, of our organs (red). Image by Li Lab
UCSF has honored UC President Emeritus Michael V. Drake, MD, with a public plaza in his name, in recognition of five decades of contributions to both the University of California system and UCSF as a medical doctor, faculty member, and UC leader.
Self-administered injectable contraceptives, which are progestin-only shots taken at home every three months, have been available for over 20 years but remain underutilized. Interest in these options increased during COVID-19. A national study has revealed that the primary barriers to their use are not related to patient capability or clinical safety.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer treatment by using a patient’s own T-cells to target tumors. However, they can cause rare but potentially fatal cardiac inflammation