An AirPod-Sized Wearable That Can Relieve Kids’ Gut Pain
A small device placed behind the ear targets the nervous system to help reduce pain and provide relief for kids with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
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A Stroke Stole Her Ability to Speak at 30. A.I. Is Helping to Restore It Years Later.
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How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back
A brain implant and digital avatar allow a paralyzed stroke survivor to speak with for first time in 18 years with the help of artificial intelligence.
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Langley Porter Moves to UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center
UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital will welcome patients to a larger and modernized space on August 19 in UCSF Mount Zion Medical Center.
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New Concussion Headset Shows When it’s Safe to Return to Play
A new digital headset designed to measure alterations in brain function could change decisions about how quickly an athlete is ready to return to play after a concussion.
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UCSF’s Connection to AIDS Walk San Francisco Runs Deep
Ever since San Francisco's AIDS Walk began, UCSF was there.
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New Black Baby Equity Clinic Helps Infants and Moms Flourish
A new clinic will match Black babies with Black healthcare providers to improve outcomes for both moms and kids.
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With a Comfort Promise, New Clinic Aims to Eliminate Pain in Kids
The UCSF Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine treats young patients holistically by combining state-of-the art Western medicine with integrative medicine like acupuncture and hypnosis. The center is expanding with a new clinic in Walnut Creek.
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UCSF to Study Alzheimer’s Genetics in North American Asians
UCSF is helping to create the first large group of Asian American study participants to help improve Alzheimer’s disease care for the Asian community North America.
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Oakland Initiative Expands Mental Health Care to California Youth
As mental health needs rise in California, the UCSF Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Portal (CAPP) helps educate and train primary care physicians and pediatrics to provide support to patients with psychiatric needs.
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For Many Asian Americans, Medical Interpreters Are a Vital but Scarce Resource
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How School Health Clinics Help Students and Families Access Care
School-based clinics in Oakland provide comprehensive primary and mental health care to underserved students. Staffed by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, these clinics offer services from medical checkups to therapy, benefiting students' overall well-being and academic success.
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New Pediatric Mental Health Building Expands Care for Kids
With the help of philanthropic support, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland opened a new behavioral health clinic for children.
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How Midwifery Went from Radical Concept to Transformative Care
At ZSFG, UCSF nurse midwives revolutionize birthing options and promote holistic, person-centered care for families in the Bay Area.
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Voices for Change: UCSF Embrace Program Aims to Focus on Black Maternal Health
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Transgender Women Face Prostate Cancer Risk, Says First-of-its-Kind Study From UCSF
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Female Physicians at California Hospital Take On Medicine’s Gender Gap
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‘This Is a First’: Why a 5-Hour Heart Transplant at UCSF Made History
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“Smarter” Breast Cancer Screening Measures Risk Down to Your DNA
The WISDOM 2.0 study aims to transform breast cancer screening by using a personalized approach and will expand to women as young as 30.
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Ward 86 at 40: Shaping HIV Care Around the World
Since 1983, Ward 86 has played a revolutionary role in HIV/AIDS treatment, and continues to develop ways to care for people living with HIV.
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Do Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Affect Your Stroke Risk?
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or non-binary may have a higher risk for stroke at a younger age, and possibly a higher risk for recurrence than those who identify as straight and cisgender.
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Five Questions for Diane Havlir
Diane Havlir, MD, UCSF’s Weiss Professor, an AIDS pioneer, and an infectious disease leader, is partnering with the local Latinx community to protect vulnerable San Franciscans from COVID-19 and other diseases.
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UCSF Surgeons Standardize Brow Lift and Hairline Surgery Using Photo Analysis
Facial feminization surgery eliminates sources of misgendering for patients through procedures like hairline advancement, brow lift, rhinoplasty, genioplasty and chondrolaryngoplasty.
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How AI Found the Words to Kill Cancer Cells
A new sophisticated machine learning technique using a molecular library of commands guides engineered immune cells to seek out and tirelessly kill cancer cells.
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A Blueprint for More Equitable Care in Public Health Crises
Since March 2020, UCSF has partnered with government and community groups to address racial, economic and cultural barriers to provide equitable care to vulnerable people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Uterine Cancer Cases Are Rising. Here’s What to Know.
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Hackathon Prepares Young Researchers for the Collaborative Science of the Future
On a sunny Friday, teams of aspiring young scientists gathered in the Clinical Sciences building at Parnassus Heights to look for treasure in a trillion data points about cancer.
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Just How Bad for Health Is Homelessness? Ucsf Study Finds Dire Outcomes for Oakland’s Older Population
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Older Homeless People Are At Great Risk of Dying
The study, funded by the National Institute on Aging, recruited people who were 50 and older and homeless, and followed them for a median of 4.5 years. By interviewing people every six months about their health and housing status, researchers were able to examine how things like regaining housing, using drugs, and having various chronic conditions, such as diabetes, affected their risk of dying.
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San Francisco, San Mateo Co. Residents Urged to Share Long COVID Stories
UCSF, San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and San Mateo County Health (SMC Health) are partnering with local community groups to learn about long COVID. Their project, Let’s Figure Out Long COVID – Tell Us Your Story, Bay Area, will call local residents of all ethnicities and backgrounds who previously had COVID.
