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A Fireside Chat with Mark Laret and Matthew Cook

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals is poised to lead the UC System and the state in pediatric medicine, according to its two senior leaders, who held a virtual fireside chat to discuss the past, present and future of the two hospitals.

Microbiome Medicine: Scientists Harness the Body’s ‘Bugs’ to Treat Asthma, MS and More

Plenty of probiotic yogurts, pickles and kombuchas claim to boost our digestive health with armies of microbes, but some scientists have more ambitious therapeutic plans for the “bugs” that colonize us. They hope to leverage these microbes as living therapeutics for a range of health conditions, including ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, eczema and asthma.

John Severinghaus, Pioneer of Anesthesia and Medicine, Has Passed Away

Pioneer, giant, visionary – these are just a few of the words that describe John Severinghaus and his work to advance anesthesia and medicine.

Helium Recycling Project Sets a New Standard for Sustainability at UCSF

Every year, 10,000 liters of liquid helium are used by just two imaging facilities housed at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus managed by the UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine—enough to fill 625,000 birthday balloons.

Caloric Restriction Alters Microbiome, Enhancing Weight Loss but Increasing Pathogenic Bacteria

Researchers at UC San Francisco have found that extreme caloric restriction diets alter the microbiome in ways that could help with weight loss but might also result in an increased population of Clostridioides difficile, a pathogenic bacterium that can lead to severe diarrhea and colitis.

Exploring Brain Health Disparities Through Jazz

Precision Medicine and the Pandemic: Discoveries, Challenges, Insights

At the recent June Precision Medicine World Conference, scientists and health experts from academia, government, and industry discussed how a precision medicine approached has helped to curb the pandemic and how lessons learned can be used to build resilience against future threats.

Campaign Aims to Increase Mental Health Resilience in the UCSF Community

There is a chance that in every lecture, laboratory, Zoom meeting, town hall audience or shuttle bus ride, someone around you is battling a mental health challenge or knows someone who is struggling.

Sudden Cardiac Death More Likely to Fell Persons with HIV Infection

Individuals with HIV are more than twice as likely to die from sudden cardiac death (SCD) compared to the general population, and more likely to have hearts compromised by fibrosis, a factor that may play a role in increasing their susceptibility to SCD, according to new findings from a UCSF study.

Targeted Therapy for ‘Undruggable’ Lung Cancer Stems from Decades of UCSF Research

This long-delayed treatment milestone might not have happened at all without seminal accomplishments by UCSF chemist Kevan Shokat, who succeeded in revitalizing a holy-grail-like quest after almost all others had given up.

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