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Paramedics transport a mock patient into UCSF’s Mount Zion medical center during a drill. Photo by Noah Berger UCSF Health has opened 13 acute- and critical-care beds at its Mount Zion hospital as
UCSF pediatrician and epidemiologist, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators. Fuentes-Afflick’s research has focused on the issues of acculturation, immigrant health and health disparities.
A project launched by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley scientists evaluated some of the more than 120 available antibody test kits.
BRIDGE is an interface available to physicians during their encounter with patients.
As people around the world try to envision recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention has been paid to antibody testing as a way to identify people who have developed immunity to the virus. UCSF experts explain how antibody testing works, who it can be most useful for and why we should be cautious.
A UCSF researcher is among the team that announced promising Phase 1 clinical results for the first new oral polio vaccine in 50 years.
Marilyn Stebbins, a UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, shares a firsthand account of being a COVID-19 patient.
The UCSF health care workers specialize in critical care, intensive care, acute care and hospital medicine.
UCSF infectious disease researchers and community partners have launched an effort to provide comprehensive, voluntary COVID-19 testing to all residents of two distinctive Bay Area communities.
UCSF is recruiting newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients for a large global clinical trial testing whether the common anti-inflammatory drug colchicine can reduce hospitalization and death caused by the illness.
UCSF researchers now have reported a new method to design and test cell therapies, one they expect will speed the development of new life-saving treatments not only for cancer, but for other diseases, too.
UCSF is announcing that it will provide free COVID-19 sample analysis, indefinitely, to all California Departments of Public Health.
The Science Policy Group at UCSF has initiated a project to provide alcohol-based hand sanitizer to incarcerated populations, as well as people living in public or transitional housing or experiencing homelessness, with plans to distribute 15,000 bottles.
While the widely used coronavirus PCR tests take about four hours to produce a result from a respiratory sample, the new DETECTR test developed by UCSF scientists takes only 45 minutes, rapidly accelerating the pace of diagnosis.
We asked UCSF emergency care physician Jeanne Noble to explain why everyone should wear a face mask and to demonstrate step-by-step how to safely don and doff masks of different types.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a critical time to think about how best to manage the care of older adults, both for their sake and for the near- and longer-term costs and stresses to the health care system, according to a new commentary by a UCSF clinician.
To help during these times, UCSF psychologist Elissa Epel worked with colleagues across the UCSF Department of Psychiatry to create a webpage of mental-health resources.
A team of 20 UCSF health care workers – 12 physicians and eight nurses – will travel to New York City to begin a one month voluntary assignment.
Vigorously embracing their leadership roles, our faculty members are coming together to tackle this public health crisis from all angles.
Lung damage is the cause of most COVID-19 deaths, and lung damage also is a public health concern for smokers and anybody living under polluted skies.
