University of California San Francisco
The faculty, staff and students were honored by Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, and Vice Chancellor Renee Chapman Navarro, MD, PharmD, during a luncheon on Oct. 24.
New study reveals that peer reviewers do not take conflicts of interest disclosures into account in their recommendations to journal editors, likely because of an absence of clear guidelines on how conflicts should impact their evaluations.
With a $106 million gift from the Weill Family Foundation, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and the University of Washington have launched the Weill Neurohub to speed the development of new therapies for diseases and disorders that affect the brain and nervous system.
Adam L. Boxer answers questions about the potential of "basket trials" to accelerate drug development for dementia and neurodegenerative disease.
The net clinical benefit of anticoagulants for atrial fibrillation decreases with age.
The Kidney Project team reported that UCSF scientists successfully implanted a prototype kidney bioreactor containing functional human kidney cells in large animals without significant safety concerns.
UCSF School of Pharmacy alumna Janet Balbutin, ’68, lost her pharmacy, Paradise Drug, in last year’s Camp Fire, but continues to serve the Paradise community to this day.
With the newly increased scholarships and loans, students, depending on their program of study, can be eligible for approximately $60,000 of financial support per year.
UCSF has received notice that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) will hold a one-day strike at UCSF on Nov. 13, 2019, as part of a systemwide labor action across the University of California campuses.
Adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa whose weight is in the healthy, overweight or obese ranges face similar cardiovascular and other health complications as their counterparts with low BMI.
In what is believed to be one of the first analyses of frequent emergency department users to include integrated medical, behavioral and social service data, a new UCSF study comprehensively examined these patients’ use of both medical and nonmedical services.
On a sunny Saturday, scientists, clinicians and students from UCSF staffed nearly 40 health science-themed booths. More than 100 organizations, including NASA and Chevron, offered a range of other STEM activities.
UCSF lab mapped out the multistage biochemical pathway by which different strains of bacteria in gut contribute to digesting inert and otherwise indigestible lignans into useful nutrients.
Carrie L. Byington started as executive vice president of UC Health. The University of California Board of Regents appointed Byington at its July meeting to lead the university’s health enterprise following a nationwide search.
We asked Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Developmental & Stem Cell Biology Program, about for-profit stem cell clinics and what’s real and what’s not in stem cell medicine.
We spoke to John Balmes, MD, a pulmonologist and professor of medicine at UCSF, about the immediate and long-term health risks of wildfire smoke, and what people should be aware of on days with poor air quality.
