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Azithromycin was used early in the pandemic to treat COVID-19 in patients and has continued to be used to fight respiratory illnesses. But a new UCSF-led study supports findings that show it isn't effective and that it has negative consequences.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has awarded the 2026 New Emerging eXperts in Translational Science (NEXT) Award to Kelsey H. Collins, PhD, for her research on the role that fat
Scientists at UCSF invented a microscopic “womb” material for growing artificial organs (organoids) from scratch.
A UCSF team discovers that a notorious cancer-causing enzyme called SRC exists on the outside of many tumors - so they're turning it into a cancer drug.
UCSF environmental epidemiologist and toxicologist Matthew Gribble, PhD, was named by The Pew Charitable Trusts as the 2026 recipient of the Pew-Hoover Fellowship in Marine and Biomedical Science.
UCSF received $824 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2025 to drive the discovery, translational, and clinical science that leads to new treatments for disease and advances U.S. leadership in health and science.
In a first, UCSF implanted a patient, who was in heart failure, with an artificial heart, who then he received a heart transplant months later. He has been discharged and is in good health.
UCSF has been named a Top Producing Institution for Fulbright U.S. Scholars for the 2025-2026 academic year. Quick highlight of the four winners.
In a partnership between the UCSF School of Nursing and UCSF Health, nursing experts are mentoring UCSF Health bedside nurses on projects, resulting in improvements in patient care and in how nurses work at UCSF Health.
UCSF researcher Daniel Mathalon, MD, PhD, believes that burgeoning knowledge about biomarkers — biological measures of a medical condition that also serve as markers of treatment effectiveness — could help intercept schizophrenia.
UCSF Health’s Adult Congenital Cardiology Program has earned accreditation from the Adult Congenital Heart Association (ACHA), recognizing UCSF’s dedication to providing high-quality, patient-centered
A study finds that while sunscreen costs hugely vary, lower-cost lotions can be just as effective in protecting against the sun.
Tau proteins play an important role in our normal brain function, mainly by helping to stabilize neurons in the brain. But in Alzheimer’s disease, tau proteins can misfold and tangle inside neurons.
UCSF Health formed a collaboration with a large radiology equipment provider to enable expanded radiologic technologist (rad tech) education, magnetic resonance (MR) excellence, and remote imaging solutions.
An NIH-funded survey by UCSF researchers found that despite the fact that digital health will continue to be core in health delivery, less than half of surveyed health systems are checking for barriers to using patient portals, telemedicine, and other digital health tools.
Peds-START (Pediatric Specialized Training and Admission to Residency Track) is one of the only programs of its kind in the country that provides medical students interested in pediatrics early mentorship, specialized pediatric training, and a direct path to pediatric residency in hopes of addressing the national pediatrician shortage.
UCSF researchers found that 64.4% of female patients report sickle cell disease (SCD) pain during menstruation. However, these patients also report low rates of hormonal contraceptive awareness or use, which could potentially help treat SCD pain for female patients.
A UCSF team finds a liver protein, released with exercise, that improves memory in aging and Alzheimer’s disease by repairing the brain’s blood vessels. It's the missing link between exercise and brain rejuvenation that many have been hunting for.
A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's reproductive health, with the goal of predicting pre-term births.
How we learn to predict an outcome isn’t determined by how many times a cue and reward happen together. Instead, how much time passes between rewards is also important. Understanding this process has implications for how we think about addiction, and could also point to faster AI algorithms.summary
For years, scientists have studied how the brain controls movement by asking patients to perform structured tasks while connected to multiple sensors in a lab. While these studies have provided
In the wake of a recent outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB cases at a local San Francisco high school, IGHS's Priya Shete tells us what to know about latent TB.
A Q&A with the executive director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, Payam Nahid, that checks in on the state of global health in the wake of USAID and other cuts.
A UCSF study found that a "collaborative care" model for dementia patients improved quality of life, reduced costs, alleviated caregiver burden, and extended the time that patients remained in the community before entering a nursing facility, as compared to standard medication therapy.
A study from UCSF shows a previously unknown connection between the Epstein-Barr virus, known to play a role in MS, and an understudied type of immune cell.
Daniele Canzio, PhD, of the Department of Neurology and Balyn Zaro, PhD, of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry have been selected as the next Bowes Biomedical Investigators.
In this latest UCSF People profile, we follow Larissa Thomas, MD, MPH, School of Medicine Professor of Clinical Medicine through a day in the life of supporting our residents and fellows
A new study offers hope that kidney transplant patients could one day have a monthly treatment instead of multiple pills every day. The new treatment also may reduce side effects and increase the lifespan of the donor organ.
This Q&A with George Sawaya, MD, explores new cervical cancer screening guidelines issued in January 2026, which recommend at-home HPV testing. A recent study found most U.S. women ages 21–49 are open to home HPV screening—an approach that could reduce barriers like embarrassment and anxiety around pelvic exams while improving early cervical cancer detection.
