Newborn Screening is Biggest Factor in ‘Bubble Baby Disease’ Survival in Last 40 Years
A new study shows that newborn screening for SCID is the only factor that actually boosts survival rates.
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California Statewide Study Investigates Causes and Impacts of Homelessness
UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative has released the largest study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s, providing a thorough look at the causes, consequences, and potential policy changes of homelessness in California.
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UCSF Closes Laurel Heights Campus, Ending Decades-long Run
UCSF’s decades-long presence in San Francisco’s Laurel Heights neighborhood has come to an end.
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Bay Area Mayor Offers His Father Life-Saving Gift by Donating Part of His Liver
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Brains and Braggadocio
As part of its miniseries on Black excellence in STEM, Carry the One Radio interviewed UCSF’s Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD. The assistant professor of clinical pharmacy shares how he’s improving cardiovascular care for everyone and how he inspires confidence in himself and his students. Find it on your favorite podcast forum.
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Invisible Corps
There’s only one uniformed service in the world dedicated to public health: the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. This PBS documentary explores its history and highlights some its officers, including former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, MD ’79, MPH, and former Chief Pharmacist Officer Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87. Stream it on pbs.org.
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The Truth About Dietary Supplements
Drawing on her decades of research and clinical experience, Mahtab Jafari, PharmD ’94, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UC Irvine, sheds light on the largely unregulated supplement industry and empowers readers to make choices informed by science.
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Ted Wong, DDS ’84: Serving the Nation as a Dental Leader
Ted Wong, DDS ’84, became the first officer in the U.S. Army Dental Corps to lead two regional medical commands and two major medical centers.
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Sliding Down
“Say what’s true for you, when you are ready,” wrote palliative care physician Michael Rabow, MD, upon sharing his poem, Sliding Down, with his UCSF community.
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The Case of the Brain-Eating Amoeba
After diagnosing a middle-aged man with an incredibly rare and almost always fatal infection, a medical team led by UCSF fellow Natasha Spottiswoode raced to find a treatment that could save his life.
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Which Skin Care Products Do We Really Need?
Skin care is big business, but does it truly take a cabinet full of pricey products to keep our skin healthy?
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What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure?
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries.
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Calling All Scientists to Fight the Next Pandemic
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
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How Gene Therapy Saved a Child from ‘Bubble Boy’ Disease
In a breakthrough, “HT” became the first person in the world to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID.
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The Surgeon Set on Curing Genetic Diseases Before Birth
Tippi MacKenzie is leading grounbreaking clinical trials of therapies aimed at stopping fetuses from developing devastating disorders.
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Get a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s. Will You Want One?
The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.
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The Cancer Breakthrough Boom
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
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Five Questions for Heather Hervey-Jumper
Heather Hervey-Jumper, MD, became director of UCSF’s Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) last summer to do work that inspires and sustains her.
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Can Neuroscience Help Stem the Tide of Teen Depression?
A new treatment approach draws on research into the unique teenage brain.
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Super-Engineered Vaccines Created to Help End Polio
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COVID-19 Lessons Learned: ‘Why Aren’t We Working on All Diseases Like This?’
Quantitative Biosciences Institute’s Nevan Krogan reflects back on the COVID-19 pandemic and how internal and external communications, funding and international partnerships all contributed to a speedy COVID-19 response.
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Catherine Gilliss Steps Down as Dean of the UCSF School of Nursing
UCSF School of Nursing Dean Catherien Gilliss, PhD, RN, FAAN announces plans to step out of the deanship at the end of December 2023.
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Two UCSF Researchers Win Pew Awards for Biomedical Science
Two UCSF scientists – James Gardner, MD, PhD, and Rebeca de Pavia Fróes Rocha, PhD – have received Pew awards for their work in immunology as part of a program that supports promising early-career investigators.
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Two New Vaccines Join the Fight to Eradicate Polio
Two new oral polio vaccines will help limit the amount of new polio strains and outbreaks by genetically engineering weakened polio virus in the oral vaccine to reduce reversion to dangerous forms.
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Navigating Neuropathy: Caro Reyes Shares Story to Spur Respectful Conversations
Caro Reyes, a project manager at UCSF’s Office of Communications, shares her story about her journey in managing chronic neuropathy, musculoskeletal pain and mobility issues. She discusses what her disability has taught her, and how workplaces can help accommodate staff with disabilities.
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UCSF Doctor Fighting Back as Drugmaker Halts Research on Lifesaving Medicine
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Can this Medication Reverse MS? Brain Biomarker Shows It Can
UCSF researchers developed an approach to measure an over-the-counter allergy medication’s effectiveness in repairing brain damage from multiple sclerosis (MS), making it possible to also assess future therapies for the disorder.
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Communities with Unmet Needs Benefit Most from New PCI Heart Hospitals
A new study shows that percutaneous coronary intervention can improve patient outcomes in communities with unmet needs.
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Health Informatics Leader Selected to Head New UCSF Division
Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, has been appointed chief of the newly created Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) at UCSF. The new division will promote the integration and application of information technology to improve patient care.
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Scaling up the Bioartificial Kidney at UCSF
