A new UCSF report on an understudied population – older homeless adults – reveals that adverse childhood experiences have long-lasting effects.

The number of Americans diagnosed with concussions is growing, most significantly in adolescents. UCSF researchers recommend that adolescents be prioritized for ongoing work in concussion education, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

An international team of researchers has developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain without triggering the dangerous side effects of current prescription painkillers.

Supply Chain Management will expand its “last-mile” package-delivery program to all Parnassus locations. Additional campus locations will roll out the program throughout the fall.

A new UCSF-led study concludes that the price of a promising new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs would need to be reduced by up to 70 percent to be cost-effective.

Five department chairs in the School of Medicine have announced their intention of stepping down within the next year.

UCSF's Global Health Sciences master’s program has named three new co-associate directors.