People with limited education and in certain racial/ ethnic minority groups are less likely to use an internet- based patient portal to interact with their health care system, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, CA.

Incoming UCSF School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov joined a recent discussion about the future of nursing to meet the increased demand for patient care and to make improvements in America's increasingly complex health system.

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A 4,000-patient clinical trial that spanned 18 countries has shown the first published data that the HPV vaccine works in young men and boys.

UCSF Medical Center and Zen Hospice Project, both recognized for their innovations and leadership in end-of-life care, provide terminally ill patients a sanctuary in a Victorian in San Francisco's Hayes Valley.

UCSF Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn is not ready to predict how long you will live. But she and her UCSF colleagues are exploring a feature within cells that is a kind of hourglass for aging.

UCSF neurosurgeons and an MRI physicist have pioneered a faster, more accurate and less invasive surgical technique for treating patients with movement disorders, potentially changing the future of neurosurgery.