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Expanded Newborn Screening Could Save Premature Infants’ Lives
Expanding routine newborn screening to include a metabolic vulnerability profile could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening complications in babies born preterm, according to a study by UC San Francisco researchers.
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Cancer Immunotherapy ‘Uniquely Suppressed’ by Liver Tumors
Though cancer immunotherapy has become a promising standard-of-care treatment – and in some cases, perhaps a cure – for a wide variety of different cancers, it doesn’t work for everyone, and researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding why.
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UCSF Researchers Test New COVID-19 Drug
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An ‘Awe Walk’ Might Do Wonders for Your Well-Being
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UCSF Launches Pilot of Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Tool to Help Slow Spread of COVID-19
Students, faculty and staff at UCSF will be invited to activate COVID Notify on their smartphones.
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The Open Hand: A Conversation with the Descendants of Biddy Mason
UCSF talked with Cheryl and Robynn Cox, who are sixth-generation descendants of Biddy Mason, about the legacy of their great-great-great-great grandmother.
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A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting
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Time-Restricted Eating Doesn’t Work for Weight Loss
The study found no significant difference between the two groups in total weight loss or in other health markers.
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Two Big Reasons S.F. Has the Lowest COVID Death Rate Among Major U.S. Cities
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Can You Tell If It’s the Flu or COVID-19? Doctors Say It’s Not So Clear
With influenza, COVID-19, and the usual cold-weather respiratory infections in circulation this winter, experts say it’s bound to be a confusing season for people to sort out what to do when they fall ill.
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UCSF Partners With Community Groups to Bring COVID-19 Testing to Oakland
In a continuing effort to serve communities that are at high risk of getting COVID-19, UCSF is partnering with Oakland-based community groups to sponsor two days of free mass testing.
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Health Care Inequality Could Deepen With Precision Oncology
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Video Offers Roadmap to Facilitate Family Conferences When Patient Prognosis is Poor
A new video offers a roadmap for structured meetings between clinicians and family members when a patient has a serious or life-threatening condition.
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Customizable Synthetic Antibiotic Outmaneuvers Resistant Bacteria
Researchers at UCSF are tackling antibiotic resistance using a different approach: redesigning existing antibiotic molecules to evade a bacterium’s resistance mechanisms
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Most Infants Are Well Even When Moms are Infected by COVID-19
Infants born to women with COVID-19 showed few adverse outcomes, according to the first report in the country of infant outcomes through eight weeks of age.
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Lift Your Head and Lower Your Arms — You Might Just Feel Better
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‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being
Older adults who took weekly 15-minute “awe walks” for eight weeks reported increased positive emotions and less distress in their daily lives.
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Hinshaw Receives National Academy of Medicine’s Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health
Hinshaw’s work spans developmental psychopathology, clinical interventions with children and adolescents, and program development related to reducing the pervasive stigmatization of mental illness.
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First Cases of Flu Hit Bay Area, Marking Start of a Dangerous Season Ahead
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‘They Are Really Afraid’: Fears About COVID-19 Are Complicating Care for Patients With Sickle Cell
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Study Finds Permanent Supportive Housing is Effective for Highest Risk Chronically Homeless People
“The bottom line is that even really high-risk folks can be housed,” said Margot Kushel, MD.
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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Illness
Greater maternal stress during pregnancy is linked with significant increases in the number and variety of infant illness during the first year of life, independent of the level of stress after birth.
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UCSF’s Covidseeker to Track the Coronavirus with Cellphone Data
Movement timelines from cellphone data can help people who have just received a positive test result recall where they have been and who they came into contact with when they were most infectious.
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Do Masks Provide a Just-Right Dose of Coronavirus?
Infectious diseases expert Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, explores her hypothesis that one of the benefits of masks may be that they provide exposure to enough coronavirus to build immunity but not enough to cause illness.
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Why COVID-19 Means You Need a Flu Shot This Year
Health experts are warning that the addition of another respiratory illness on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could overburden the health care system, strain testing capacity, and increase the risk of catching both diseases at once.
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Latinos Make Up 71% of Coronavirus Cases in Largely White Marin County. Will New Equity Efforts Help?
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What's The Best Way to Store Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’?
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First ‘Plug and Play’ Brain Prosthesis Demonstrated in Paralyzed Person
The achievement of “plug and play” performance demonstrates the value of so-called ECoG electrode arrays for BCI applications.
