University of California San Francisco
A national analysis of physician office and emergency department records shows that the types of skin infections caused by community-acquired MRSA doubled in the eight-year study period, with the highest rates seen among children and in urban emergency rooms.
In resource-limited settings where tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality among HIV patients and where a multidrug-resistant TB epidemic is emerging, researchers are pressing for approaches to integrate TB prevention and treatment into HIV care and treatment.
UCSF Science Café has begun exporting its online model to the world by creating a site for science communicators who want to develop their own version of UCSF's award-winning web weekly.
More than 3,000 attendees are now descending on Barcelona for the fourth Euroscience Open Forum.
Young adults with a low-level elevation in their blood pressure ("Prehypertension") before age 35 are more likely to have calcium in their coronary arteries later in life, predisposing them to a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks, according to a UCSF study...
The UCSF School of Nursing has received its second $4.25 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to continue the work of the Center for Personal Assistance Services (PAS).
Delivering drugs inside the brain just got easier...
Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate.
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals and is the best in the Bay Area, according to the new 2008 “America’s Best Hospitals” survey conducted by “U.S. News & World Report.”
Science Debate 2008 continues to elbow its way into public view. But will the presidential candidates notice?