The new UCSF Health Bayfront Medical Building, which brings new adult urgent care, primary care, same-day surgery, and specialty care to the community in a single setting, celebrated its opening on Friday, August 23.
UCSF’s mentorship program boosts career insights for both mentors and mentees, fostering unique research opportunities and advancing scientific careers with support from CIRM and NIH.
A study determines that a life-saving, inexpensive antibiotic, azithromycin, must be given to all children up to 5 years old in Sub-Sharan Africa to realize its full potential.
Seth Blumberg, MD, PhD, explains the viral disease mpox, and what the recent emergency declaration from the World Health Organization means for us.
Mekhail Anwar leads a multi-institution $15 million grant from ARPA-H to develop imaging technology to improve cancer surgery.
An experimental adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) device had tremendous success in a trial that helped a Parkinson’s patient, who is a former skateboarding professional, resume skating and mentoring San Francisco youth.
A UCSF-created child-parent therapy for trauma in kids under age 5 was found to slow down biological aging, which is tied to health benefits later in life.
A breakthrough study shows how a ketogenic diet alters human metabolism and makes a particular pancreatic cancer drug effective by starving tumors of fat that they feed on to grow.
Scientists have identified the biomarkers in progressive supranuclear palsy, a type of frontotemporal dementia, the most common dementia affecting people under 60.
A study linked chronic inflammation in early adulthood to loss of cognitive skills in midlife. Chronic inflammation is caused by obesity, smoking, and poor health. Those with higher levels of inflammation were twice as likely to have poor cognitive performance than those with low inflammation.
