Study Finds Wide Exposure to Environmental Toxics in Cohort of Pregnant Women
Low income and Latina pregnant women who seek care at ZSFG have widespread exposure to environmental pollutants, many of which show up in higher levels in newborns.
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Three Tips From A Neuroscientist On How To Be The Most Productive Multitasker
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Science in Focus: Evolving Immune Fighters in the Gut
Graduate student Lauren Rodda captured a microscopic mage of a mouse gut, which highlights her work to understand the germinal center, where immune cells compete to be the best at recognizing an invading pathogen.
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Do soda taxes work? Experts look to Mexico for answers
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Mexico’s Soda Tax Could Reduce Diabetes, Heart Disease and Health Costs, New Study Finds
The tax on sugar-sweetened beverages in Mexico could prevent hundreds of thousands of adults from developing Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease while saving approximately $1 billion in health care costs.
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UCSF Helps Develop Unified Classification Criteria for Sjogren’s Syndrome
UCSF's schools of Dentistry and Medicine have helped to craft a unified and definitive set of classification criteria for Sjögren's syndrome.
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How to Break the Junk Food Habit
Certain foods — particularly processed foods that are high in sugar, salt and fat — don’t just taste good, they also can be addictive, said scientists at a UCSF symposium on food and addiction.
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Studies Linked to Soda Industry Mask Health Risks
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1-in-4 Older Adults Have Not Discussed Advance Care Planning
More than one in four older adults have not engaged in planning for end-of-life care or directives, despite significant public efforts to encourage the practice.
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Maureen Brodie Named Director of UCSF Office of the Ombuds
Maureen Brodie has been named the new director of the UCSF Office of the Ombuds.
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ICU – Intensive Cat Unit – Helping Patients Heal At UCSF
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John C. Greene, Former UCSF School of Dentistry Dean, Dies
John C. Greene, dean emeritus of the UCSF School of Dentistry, died at age 90. Greene served as dean from 1981 to 1995.
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Science in Focus: Regenerating Muscle from Stem Cells
A microscopic image of a mouse leg that has been reconstructed with a stem cell transplant shows what may one day help patients regrow new muscle after a major surgery.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Holds Free Symposium on Food and Addiction
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UCSF Lactation Accommodation Program Wins 2016 Healthy Mothers Workplace Award
The San Francisco Healthy Mothers Workplace Coalition recently honored the UCSF Lactation Accommodation Program with the 2016 Healthy Mothers Workplace Award.
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UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Announces Innovation, Scholar Awards
The UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences has named the first recipients of the UCSF Weill Innovation and Scholar Awards as part of the institute’s goal to support high-risk, high-reward research.
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UCSF Health and John Muir Health to Expand Cancer Care Collaboration
UCSF Health and John Muir Health are augmenting their growing collaboration through a plan to expand world-class, compassionate cancer care.
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Researchers Use CRISPR to Accelerate Search for HIV Cure
Researchers at UCSF and the academically affiliated Gladstone Institutes have used a newly developed gene-editing system to find gene mutations that make human immune cells resistant to HIV infection.
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Open Enrollment for 2017 Health Plans, Benefits Runs Through Nov. 22
Open Enrollment, the time of year when UC employees have the opportunity to review and make changes to their benefits, runs from Oct. 27 until Nov. 22.
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UCSF in Top 20 for U.S. News’ 2017 Global Universities Rankings
UCSF has ranked as one of the top 20 universities in the world, according to the 2017 Best Global Universities rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report.
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Drug Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Found in New Study
A team of researchers led by UCSF scientists has identified a new drug target for triple-negative breast cancer.
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Gene Links Risk of Psychiatric Disease to Reduced Synapse Numbers
Research led by UCSF scientists has revealed that mutations in a gene linked with brain development may dispose people to multiple forms of psychiatric disease by changing the way brain cells communicate.
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A Gene That Could Help Explain Why Lithium Stabilizes Mood
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HIV Active in Tissues of Patients Who Received Antiretroviral Treatment, Study Shows
UCSF researchers found in autopsy tissue samples of patients treated with antiretrovirals that the virus evolved and migrated among tissues similar to the way it did in patients who had never received antiretroviral treatment.
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Prevention-Oriented Approach to Dentistry Helps Patients Avoid the Drill
Years after CAMBRA was developed at UCSF, it is starting to make inroads among dental professionals nationwide, and researchers are leading the first large study of the protocol in community dental practices.
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Electronic Records Help Link Genes to Age-Related Hearing Loss
A study of patient electronic medical records and genome sequences from adults with age-related hearing impairment, identified two genetic variations linked to the hearing disorder.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Experts to Address Several Health Topics During Pediatricians’ Conference
The nation’s top pediatric specialists from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco will present new clinical findings and fresh perspectives at the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Science in Focus: Self-Sorting Cells Disrupt Development
Postdoctoral scholar Audrey O’Neill captured 16 hours of video as part of her work that aims to understand what molecular steps cause cells to self-segregate.
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UCSF Provides Tools, Activities for Compliance Week
To help all faculty, staff and students at UCSF understand their role in compliance – and the best practices to maintain compliance – several departments across the University are holding events and activities for Compliance Week.
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SF ghost-pepper burger yields 1-inch esophagus tear