University of California San Francisco
Covered California will begin enrolling residents into the new health insurance marketplace on October 1, and UCSF has a number of health policy experts available to discuss the potential impacts of the health insurance exchange.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will deliver her annual State of the University Address on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
The 14th World Congress of the International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association will convene in Monterey, Calif., sponsored by the Transplantation Society and experts from UC San Francisco.
For adolescents hospitalized with anorexia nervosa, higher calorie diets produce twice the rate of weight gain compared to the lower calorie diets currently recommended, according to a study by researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
Sally Rockey, deputy director for Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, is giving a talk titled “NIH: Interesting Times, Challenging Times” at UCSF on Tuesday, Sept. 24.
UCSF neuroscientist Jonah R. Chan, PhD, has been named the winner of the inaugural Barancik Prize for Innovation in MS Research.
UCSF will receive a five year, $20 million grant as part of a first-of-its-kind tobacco science regulatory program by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
UCSF is welcoming more than 800 new students this fall in its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy, as well as its Graduate Division. Here are some interesting facts about this diverse incoming class.
Years of collaborative planning with UCSF staff, patients and families is being realized as the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay takes shape.
More adults in California are flocking to emergency rooms, especially those on Medicaid who are using ERs at a faster rate than the uninsured or privately insured, according to new UCSF research.
One of UC San Francisco’s newest faculty members is receiving the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing award as part of a multi-investigator team working to establish solid foundations for molecular programming.
A small pilot study shows for the first time that changes in diet, exercise, stress management and social support may result in longer telomeres, the parts of chromosomes that affect aging.
