A global team of scientists and clinicians found that a cheap, easy-to-use test for tuberculosis was just as good, if not better, at detecting disease than existing tests, shortening time to a diagnosis from days to just 15 minutes.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world’s largest general scientific societies and publisher of the Science family of journals, named three UCSF faculty to the 2025 class of AAAS Honorary Fellows: Elissa Epel, Geeta Jayant Narlikar, and Donald Emil Ganem (emeritus).

Discover how SF became the first city to use doxycycline to drop STI rates by up to 24%. UCSF experts explain the impact of doxy-PEP.

Newsweek names UCSF Health a top hospital for maternity care and reproductive care.

A UCSF professor explores the value of time and connection, urging a shift from career checklists to genuine human care in this annual talk.

Freeze-dried human platelets could be used as a "molecular tourniquet" for brain bleeds in the minutes to hours after a traumatic brain injury, according to a UCSF team led by Shibani Pati. The scientists envision stocking ambulances and EDs with the product.

UCSF's Cherry Leung, associate professor of community health systems with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, researches the gut-brain axis as a potential adjunct therapy for improving adolescent mental health.

Epilepsy physicians Jon Kleen and Eddie Chang used high-resolution technology to see how cognition is disrupted in people with epilepsy and predict when it will occur. The new view points the way to being able to fend of these disruptions.

Rushika M. Perera, the Deborah Cowan Professor and vice chair of the Department of Anatomy, and chief scientific officer of UCSF’s Pancreas Center, shared her insights on pancreatic cancer on April 16 when she presented the 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science.

UCSF BCH Oakland is partnering with Oakland Housing Authority and Alameda Alliance for Health on a new initiative that provides housing to families with children in the PICU and NICU at very reduced rent, so they can easily visit their children while they are in hospital and/or get them to medical appointments.