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Scientists at UCSF and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found strong evidence that a cell signaling pathway active in embryonic development plays a crucial role in pancreatic cancer.
UCSF researchers have identified a biochemical feedback system in rats that could explain why some people crave comfort foods - such as chocolate chip cookies and greasy cheeseburgers - when they are chronically stressed, and why such people are apt to gain weight in the abdomen.
Researchers have had few clues as to why Black women are more likely to die from heart attacks or strokes than white women.
Workplace exposure to dust or fumes may account for as many as five million cases of emphysema, chronic bronchitis and related diseases in the U.S. - diseases that have been mainly attributed to smoking, a new University of California, San Francisco survey shows.
A chemical sleight of hand by UCSF scientists has pinpointed for the first time where small molecules called phosphates bind to proteins in cells, allowing them to send signals and giving organisms a way to adapt to rapidly changing conditions.
Resistance mutations to anti-HIV medications are more likely to occur in patients who take most of their medications rather than in those who don't, according to AIDS specialists at the University of California, San Francisco.
HMO-enrolled Medicare patients who suffered a heart attack in California fared no worse -- perhaps even a little better -- than those who were covered by fee-for-service, according to a new UCSF study.
UCSF researchers found no harmful changes in HIV virus levels in patients on combination antiretroviral therapy in a safety study looking at both smoked marijuana and dronabinol, an oral medical cannabinoid.
UCSF researchers found no harmful changes in HIV virus levels in patients on combination antretroiviral therapy in a safety study looking at both smoked marijuana and dronabinol, an oral medical cannabinoid.
The UCSF Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) starts in October with a series of classes aimed at adults over the age of 50 who remain curious, thoughtful, and in search of new ideas.
Resistance mutations to anti-HIV medications are more likely to occur in patients who take most of their medications rather than in those who don't, according to AIDS specialists at the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF is offering 12 weeks of free individual counseling as part of a study on depression to adults 60 years and older who are feeling down, depressed, stressed, or who want help coping with medical, physical, or family problems.
An estimated 50 million children have high levels of the "bad" cholesterol--known as LDL--that puts them at high risk for suffering heart attacks as adults.
Until now, scientists have been unable to distinguish between dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease and that caused by poor blood flow to the brain.
In a finding that could significantly enhance scientists' ability to develop and test drugs and vaccines to treat the most common and lethal form of malaria, a UCSF team has identified the full breadth of genetic activity at a key stage of development in the parasite Plasmodium falciparum.