Nearly one in 10 children are hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of a mental health condition, according to a new analysis led by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

New research by UC San Francisco neuroscientists suggests that the body may get help in fast-changing situations from a specialized brain circuit that causes visual system neurons to fire more strongly during locomotion.

UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to a burglary involving unencrypted desktop computers that contained some personal and health information.

It doesn’t always make sense to do a heart scan to measure how much plaque has built up in a patient’s coronary arteries before prescribing statins, UCSF research shows.

Embers from an adjacent building fire landed on the roof of the Smith Cardiovascular Research Institute Building at UCSF Mission Bay, which caused the roof grass to catch on fire on Tuesday evening.