Training the Eye to See Disease On Dark Skin
Most dermatologists aren’t adequately taught to treat patients of color. UCSF’s Jenna Lester wants to fix that.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFMost dermatologists aren’t adequately taught to treat patients of color. UCSF’s Jenna Lester wants to fix that.
What happens once abortion is illegal in half the country?
How David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found the molecules in our bodies that sense heat, cold, touch, and pain – and transformed sensory neuroscience.
After two years of participating in mostly virtual events due to the pandemic, UCSF is rallying its community to come together in Golden Gate Park for AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 17 to raise funds for programs and services that benefit people of the Bay Area.
As a worldwide shortage of contrast dye for medical imaging continues, a new UCSF research letter in JAMA quantified strategies to safely reduce dye use in computed tomography (CT) by up to 83%. CT is the most common use for the dye.
A study led by UCSF researchers shows that insufficient or interrupted sleep may have more of an impact than smoking history in patients with a progressive lung disease.
A new study by researchers at UCSF and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that hospice patients with dementia are more likely to receive excellent care and have their anxiety and sadness managed than those not on hospice.
UCSF research scientists and statisticians have developed improved biomarker classifications as part of their research results in the I-SPY 2 trial for high-risk breast cancer patients. The new cancer response subtypes reflect responsiveness to drug treatments and are intended to help clinicians be more precise in how they target therapies.
The latest advances in cancer care and research will be showcased at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, the world’s largest clinical cancer meeting.
In a new study of Alzheimer’s disease, UCSF reserachers have discovered that a relatively unstudied form of the tau protein associated with neurodegeneration may be a means for better diagnosis and treatment of the disease.