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Sleep spindles, bursts of brain activity during NREM2 sleep, may regulate anxiety in PTSD, challenging recent studies. Non-invasive therapies could provide relief, such as prescription drugs or electrical brain stimulation. Sleep hygiene is also recommended to maximize the benefit of spindles after a stressful episode.
A traditional African psychedelic plant medicine called ibogaine is the blueprint for two new drug candidates that could treat addiction and depression.
UCSF is the first hospital in California to offer pharmacogenetic testing for smarter prescribing. Testing identifies genetic makeup and tailors medications to improve efficacy and avoid lethal drug reactions.
From birth, Samantha has had four surgeries for heart disease. Her last surgery was aided by a 3D-printed replica of her heart, providing a detailed understanding of her heart’s anatomy. The surgery’s success allowed the now 15-year-old to lead a more normal life.
Henry Bourne, MD, a long-time UCSF researcher who chronicled its rise to prominence in the 1970s, has died at the age of 83.
UCSF Health’s surgical oncology team is a Bay Area leader in an innovative chemotherapy infusion pump used to treat patients with widely metastatic colorectal and bile duct cancers that have spread to the liver and are no longer considered operable.
Avian flu cases are spiking. Will it spill over into humans?
UCSF is providing notice to local news media regarding an email breach that included the names and some other identifiers of some of our patients.
Chinese Hospital and UCSF Health have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance the quality of health care in the San Francisco community, combining the strengths and resources of both organizations.
UCSF's Division of Surgical Oncology is currently the only center in Northern California offering surgical insertion of hepatic artery infusion (HAI) for patients.
Medical centers can reduce their carbon footprint and expenses by up to 51% by turning off MRIs and using a “power save” mode that cycles cooling components on and off.
The partnership between UC San Francisco and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center started in 1873, when we began to collaborate on clinical care and education, based on our shared public mission.
What keeps you up at night? For Kai Kennedy, DPT, it’s health equity — a complex mission that’s guided a lifelong journey from Virginia to West Africa, the Caribbean to Europe and now the Bay Area. But she didn’t get here alone.
Oakland residents have bought fewer sugary beverages since a local “soda tax” went into effect, and that is likely improving their health and saving the city money.
the UCSF Rosenman Institute BUILD™ Heart Health program, in collaboration with the American Heart Association, aims to train the next generation of health technology entrepreneurs.
A $70 million grant from the Audacious Project will help UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers edit the genes of microbes in the gut and airways that play a role in asthma.
Leading cancer researchers from UCSF will present at this year’s annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, held April 14-19, 2023, in Orlando.
IBD patients can avoid uncomfortable procedures such has colonoscopies and MRIs at UCSF’s intestinal ultrasound clinic – the first of its kind west of the Mississippi River.
UCSF interventional cardiologists and interventional echocardiographers recently performed two novel minimally invasive cardiac procedures for the first time in the health system.
Ten graduate school finalists competed in this year’s UCSF Grad Slam, in which students present their research in three minutes or less in terms easily understood by a general audience.
After more than a decade, Jaime Sepúlveda will step down from his role as executive director of UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences in August 2023.
UCSF is working to clear and repair damage to trails, buildings, roads and retaining walls throughout the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. Currently, the trails are dangerous and not open to the public.
