Three UCSF Health hospitals received “A” ratings in the spring 2025 Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit watchdog focused on patient safety.
UCSF Health intends to continue regular operations, including emergency care, and expects to be able to maintain the majority of scheduled appointments and surgeries during a one-day strike on May 1.
A study established new neighborhood characteristics that lead to higher death rates in children with leukemia that can serve as intervention opportunities.
A new partnership will allow UC San Francisco employees to ride Uber’s employee shuttle buses to Mission Bay. Uber, which is headquartered in Mission Bay and operates an employee shuttle system that runs throughout the Bay Area, will permit a limited number of UCSF employees to purchase a monthly subscription to ride the Uber shuttles beginning in June. The service will be available to UCSF employees commuting to the Mission Bay campus on weekdays. It will stop at several locations across the Bay Area. “Given UCSF’s limited parking capacity and our sustainability goals to reduce single
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals in Oakland and San Francisco celebrated prom events for their teenage patients with casino activities, photobooths, and raffles.
A first-of-its-kind study tested the safety of psilocybin on patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease and found that patients experienced clinically significant improvements in mood, cognition, and motor function that lasted for weeks after the drug was out of their systems.
Researcher and campus leader Atul Butte, MD, PhD, has been recognized for his outstanding career in the computational and health sciences with induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious and oldest honor societies in the U.S.
A team at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes developed new drug candidates that show great promise against the virus that causes COVID-19 and potentially other coronaviruses that could cause future pandemics.
Darnele Wright, who has spent more than a dozen years as UC counsel in roles at UC San Francisco and the UC Office of the President, will become UCSF’s next chief campus counsel and vice chancellor of legal affairs.
A new study finds that telehealth physical therapy can be a good option to in-person physical therapy to treat stress urinary incontinence in postpartum women.
