How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?
People trying to conceive are bombarded with advice meant to improve their odds. But how much power do we really have over our fertility?
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How Can We Help Kids Cope with Anxiety about Climate Change?
We spoke with Ellen Herbst, MD, a UCSF psychiatrist and mother of two, about how the climate crisis is impacting the mental health of children and adolescents – and what parents can do to help.
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Mission: A Tobacco-Free World
With vaping taking over the youth market, Pamela Ling, MD ’96, MPH, applies her research-driven social media and marketing expertise to beat the tobacco industry at its own game.
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The Kids Are Not All Right
Most hospitals don’t adequately treat children’s pain, say UCSF experts. Can their unique approach help stop the suffering?
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Big Little Lives
Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.
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The Radical Compassion of Awake Brain Surgery
On the operating table and inside the lab of a rising star in cancer neurosurgery.
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Trip Therapy
Could psychedelics become mainstream medicines?
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‘Most Transmissible’ COVID Variant Yet Is Spreading in California. What We Know About XBB.1.5
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What We Know About Treating Extreme Grief With Psychedelics
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How a Medication Abortion, Also Known as an ‘Abortion Pill,’ Works
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Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors
Resecting brain tumors called gliomas as much as possible soon after diagnosis offers a distinct survival advantage when looking at the disease trajectory 10 years later, find UCSF researchers.
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FDA Poised to Approve New Alzheimer’s Drug
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Strategies To Implement New Year’s Resolutions on Improving Mental Health
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Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding Source
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Diana Greene Foster Named to Most Influential Researchers List
Diana Greene Foster of UCSF was named one of the top 10 most influential scientists of 2022 by "Nature" for her study of what happens to women who are denied abortions.
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30 Years On, Are We Winning the Fight Against Alzheimer’s?
UCSF experts discuss the current state of Alzheimer’s treatments and future therapies that may slow progression of the disease.
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Will ‘Dry January’ Trigger Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms?
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Duping Antibodies with a Decoy, Researchers Aim to Prevent Rejection of Transplanted Cells
Researchers have genetically engineered cells to distract antibodies from attacking friendly, but foreign, cells. This could prevent transplants from being rejected.
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COVID-19 Vaccines, Prior Infection Reduce Transmission of Omicron
California prisons saw more than 20,000 COVID-19 Omicron cases over a five-month period. However, vaccination and boosting kept hospitalization and death rates low.
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How to Spare Yourself From Shoulder Pain
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UCSF Surgeons Standardize Brow Lift and Hairline Surgery Using Photo Analysis
Facial feminization surgery eliminates sources of misgendering for patients through procedures like hairline advancement, brow lift, rhinoplasty, genioplasty and chondrolaryngoplasty.
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What Older Americans Need To Know Before Undergoing Major Surgery
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A Dozen Californians Overdose on This Holiday Spice Every Year
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Unique UCSF-city Internship Program Offers Paid Prep for Mental Health Careers
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Gene Therapy Trial Shows Promise for Treating ‘Bubble Boy’ Syndrome. Now Comes the Hard Part
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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. His new immune system is life-changing.
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Infant Gene Therapy is a Breakthrough for Artemis-SCID Patients
Ten children who were born without functioning immune systems due to Artemis-SCID are now leading healthy lives thanks to a new gene therapy treatment pioneered at UCSF.
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UCSF Researchers Uncover New Pathway for Molecular Cancer Drug Therapies
Researchers have discovered a cellular uptake pathway for larger molecules that delivers cell-permeable drugs efficiently.
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Rethinking How Cancer Cells Evade Targeted Therapy
Through decades of biobanking at UCSF, researchers were able to comprehensively map intra-cellular signaling in the cells of recurrent glioblastoma, identifying novel cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets.
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During Sleep, Brain Regions Synchronize to Create Motor Memory
While we sleep, our brains process our daily actions to create motor memory, which makes physical acts such as throwing a basketball subconscious.
