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People with severe mental illness are more than twice as likely to have Type 2 diabetes, with even higher risks among patients who are African American or Hispanic, according to a new study led by UCSF.
With a new project – Rural Health Advanced Practice Training – the UCSF School of Nursing hopes to help fill gaps in health care by encouraging and training advanced practice nurses to work in rural settings.
This new book by international palliative care expert and UCSF physician Steven Pantilat, MD ’89, serves as a guide for those who don’t know where to start at a difficult time. Pantilat makes sense of what doctors may say, what they actually mean, and how to get the information you need to make the best medical decisions.
This UC San Francisco competition challenges PhD students to use engaging “nonspecialist” language to describe their intricate research – in three minutes or less. Bioengineering student Yiqi Cao won the top prize this year for her talk about how to improve stents to reduce scar tissue. “Grad Slam was an incredible opportunity to challenge myself,” Cao says. “It’s definitely not easy to distill … many years of research down to a meaningful three minutes.”
As a kindergartener, Nerdette co-host Greta Johnsen was diagnosed with an eye condition that is among the best diseases for experimenting with the gene editing tool CRISPR. This episode follows Greta, her father, and UCSF geneticist and Gladstone Institutes investigator Bruce Conklin, MD, as he tries to develop the perfect CRISPR system to remove the faulty DNA from Johnsen’s eye cells.
Former department chair Catherine Gilliss, RN, PhD ’83, returned to UCSF last fall as dean, her third deanship at a top U.S. nursing school.
A staggering 64,000 people in the United States died in 2016 from drug overdoses – and a study led by UCSF’s Daniel Ciccarone is aiming to get at the heart of of the problem, including by interviewing opioid users.
A performance at UCSF by Oscar winner Frances McDormand sparks a conversation about facing death.
Teens like Anthony Orosco are using their creative juices to change the conversation about Type 2 diabetes, thanks to a partnership between UCSF and arts nonprofit Youth Speaks.
The odds of being a frequent user of California’s emergency departments dropped in the two years following the implementation of major provisions of the Affordable Care Act in January 2014.
Emergency room physician Debbie Yi Madhok designed a rapid-response protocol for strokes that is improving the odds for patients.
Matthew State, chair of UCSF’s Department of Psychiatry, is playing a key role in an ambitious effort to tackle San Francisco’s dire homelessness problem. He answers some tough questions about the challenge.
Young adults who are overweight or obese are twice as likely as their leaner peers to binge and purge, use laxatives or diuretics, or force themselves to vomit as a means of controlling their weight.
