More women these days are grooming their pubic hair, especially younger women, but the practice poses some risks, most often related to shaving injuries.

A drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure has been shown to significantly reduce the risk of blocked electrical impulses to the heart and could be an effective treatment for certain types of heart disease known as conduction disease, in which the progression of electrical impulses through the heart is impeded.

UCSF faculty, staff and students who are working hard to make the University greener and more sustainable were honored during the sixth annual Sustainability Awards ceremony.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have placed among the nation’s premier children’s hospitals in all 10 pediatric specialties.

JoAnne Keatley has spent her career at UCSF opening doors to ensure trans people seeking health services get the care they need that best suits their gender identity.

Measuring the levels of a small number of proteins in the blood of patients with coronary heart disease may eventually allow doctors to more reliably assess the risk of future heart attacks, heart failure, strokes, and death in these patients, according to new research led by a UCSF cardiologist.

UCSF has installed hundreds of new signs on existing single-occupancy restrooms to identify them as being gender inclusive.