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.

The abundance of a subtype of white blood cells in melanoma tumors can predict whether or not patients will respond to a form of cancer immunotherapy known as checkpoint blockade, according to a new study led by UCSF researchers and physicians.

UCSF School of Nursing Dean David Vlahov has announced he will step down as dean at the end of August. He will continue as a member of the school’s faculty where he will focus on research and mentoring.

In 1996, two UCSF physicians published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that launched a new field of medicine focused on the inpatient experience. To mark the 20th anniversary of their seminal NEJM article, Robert Wachter and Lee Goldman reflect on the rapid rise of hospitalists.

UCSF alumnus Joshua A. Gordon has been selected as the next director of the National Institute of Mental Health.

UC San Francisco’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has received $85 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue to provide training, research support and other services, and to launch new programs aimed at diversifying the patients in research and advancing precision medicine.