UC San Francisco Professor Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo on Monday was appointed as the chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

UC San Francisco leaders and faculty took part in the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference, a premier gathering in precision medicine.

Personal voice assistants are increasingly used by smartphone owners for a range of health questions, but in a new study the telephone conversational agents responded inconsistently and incompletely to simple questions about mental health, rape and domestic violence.

UCSF hosted a Zika symposium to bring together Bay Area experts and health officials to to help focus the research agenda as scientists around the world scrambling for information the virus.

Research by UCSF scientists has opened up a surprising new avenue for potential therapies to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders that are associated with chronic tissue inflammation in obesity.

Pregnant women can be protected from malaria, a major cause of prematurity, low birth weight and death in infants in Africa, with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP), an artemisinin combination therapy that is already widely used to treat malaria in adults, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and in Uganda.

Hospitals face penalties for readmitting recently discharged Medicare patients, but in 27 percent of cases readmissions could be prevented, according to a UCSF-led study of 12 academic medical centers nationwide.