The UCSF community is deeply saddened by the passing of Theodore R. Schrock, the former chief medical officer of UCSF Medical Center and a renowned endoscopic surgeon who pioneered the use of colonoscopy as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.

A new analysis of nationwide emergency department (ED) records led by UC San Francisco researchers has revealed that black patients seen for back or abdominal pain are roughly half as likely as white patients to be prescribed opioids in the ED or at discharge.

The first results from a large international study of patients taking metformin, the world’s most commonly used type 2 diabetes drug, reveal genetic differences among patients that may explain why some respond much better to the drug than others.

In light of the recent national focus on lead in water, UCSF is taking voluntary, proactive steps to test the quality of its drinking water to ensure that lead levels are within the standards recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Canopy Health, the Bay Area-wide health care network being developed by UCSF Health, John Muir Health and three physician groups, has received its Knox-Keene license to operate in seven Bay Area counties.

UC San Francisco, one of the nation’s top three medical schools, is launching a new curriculum this month to train doctors in the skills needed to navigate and engineer the complex health care delivery and bioscience systems of the 21st Century.

A new study led by UCSF scientists shows that a bacterium commonly found in the human gut is overrepresented in patients with a rare, often disabling autoimmune disease known as neuromyelitis optica.