This fall, UCSF welcomes over 900 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.

UCSF is teaching nursing and medical students state-of-the-art-treatment for opioid use disorder. When they graduate, they will immediately be able to treat patients for addiction.

The NIH has awarded grants to Faranak Fattahi, Alexander Pollen, and Vasanth Vedantham to pursue highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical research.

A monthly, 40-minute phone call from a non-clinical professional may suppress or reverse the trajectory of depression so frequently experienced by family members caring for patients with dementia at home.

Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters microbiomes, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health and for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human prehistory.  

UC San Francisco is teaming up with the Heart, Obesity, Prevention & Education (HOPE) Program of the Living Heart Foundation (LHF) to increase awareness and improve the health of former National Football League (NFL) players.

Distinct patterns of electrical activity in the sleeping brain may influence whether we remember or forget what we learned the previous day.

Ten finalists competed in the live event, hoping to impress the judges with snappy three-minute summaries of their research.