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Cracks in the Test: Doctors Improve Osteoporosis Screens
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Minorities Hit Hardest by Calif. Hospital Overcrowding: Study
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Gladstone Researchers Find Epilepsy Drug That May Work for Alzheimer's Patients
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Brain Might Not Stand in the Way of Free Will
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Researchers Identify Mechanism that Turns White Fat Cells to Brown
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Hospital Chain Inquiry Cited Unnecessary Cardiac Work
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Epilepsy Drug Reverses Memory Loss in Animal Model of Alzheimer's Disease
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Emergency Room Overcrowding More Likely to Impact Minorities
Hospitals in areas with large minority populations are more likely to be overcrowded and to divert ambulances, delaying timely emergency care, according to a multi-institutional study focused on California.
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Minorities Hit Hardest by Hospital Overcrowding, Study Finds
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How Digital Culture Is Rewiring Our Brains
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Half in U.S. Have Poor Health Literacy
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UCSF, Dignity Discuss Linking San Francisco Hospitals
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Cradle to College to Career
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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Is it possible for a health care system to redesign its services to better educate patients to deal with their immediate health issues and also become more savvy consumers of medicine in the long run?
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Not Losing Weight? Here's Why
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Summer Internships Encourage High School Students to Pursue Careers in Science
<p>Andrea Lopez knows that she could easily be doomed by her demographic: She is 17, Latina and the mother of a baby boy. But UCSF's Science Education & Health Partnership's internship program has helped her prove otherwise.</p>
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SF Police Commission Hears Taser Debate
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Violence Prevention Program at SF General Hospital Saves Lives
<p>When Rochelle Dicker, MD, was a UCSF intern, she cared for a 16-year-old boy who had been shot as a result of gang violence. He was eventually discharged, but returned to the emergency room a few weeks later after he was shot again. Today, Dicker directs a program that has proven to save lives.</p>
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Free Dental Clinic a Huge Success
Children Receive Dental Services and Education at UCSF
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UCSF Team Unites for AIDS Walk
Close to 300 UCSF walkers were among an estimated 25,000 walkers who have raised more than $3 million to benefit HIV/AIDS services in the Bay Area, including some at UCSF. This year's UCSF team surpassed the fundraising goal of $55,000.
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
Every Wednesday afternoon, nurse Teresa Corrigan leads a series of laughter and breathing exercises at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine to improve health.
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Science Teachers Learn at Summer Institute
Experienced elementary school teachers partner with UCSF scientists to teach fellow elementary school instructors how to bring science into classrooms during the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership's (SEP) City Science Summer Institute.
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Internship Program Gives Jobless a Fresh Start
UCSF's Excellence through Community Engagement and Learning (EXCEL) program helps the unemployed get back to work with opportunities for employment experience in administrative support positions around UCSF.
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Helping Diabetes Patients with Mental Illness
Patients gather at the GLIDE Health Clinic to participate in a research-based program that works through the dual challenges of living with diabetes and mental illness.
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Students Visualize Molecules
Through events such as this summer high school tour of a computer graphics lab at UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus, scientists can share their work and spur students interest in science.
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Teen Program Explores Health Careers
The Program for Investigation and Training for Careers in Health (PITCH) is a free, three-week summer opportunity for rising high school juniors in the San Francisco Unified School District.
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Students Experience Cutting-Edge Research
The UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership's (SEP) High School Summer Internship program prepares students for college through hands-on laboratory experience alongside a mentor.
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Volunteers Restore Historic Trail
For the past three years, UCSF has joined in partnership with community volunteers and the Recreation and Parks Department to restore a trail on Mt. Sutro that had been closed to the public for nearly half a century.
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Students Vaccinate Against Hepatitis B in Chinatown
The San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative offers free screenings for Hepatitis B (Hep B) and low cost vaccinations for community members every other Saturday at the Chinatown Public Health Center.