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Give to UCSFWhile organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and
At least six states with high opioid abuse rates also have strong work restrictions that hinder nurse practitioners in prescribing medication that can help treat the problem.
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when used alone. Using this
Image courtesy of the National Cancer Institute Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that until recently would
Amyloid positive PET scan. A first-of-its-kind national study has found that a form of brain imaging that detects Alzheimer’s-related “plaques” significantly influenced clinical management of
New UCSF study may have answered how your brain knows when you’ve had enough water.
UCSF scientists are testing how brief periods of controlled stress could protect the body from long-term stress.
Tobacco conglomerates that used colors, flavors and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers transferred these same strategies to sweetened beverages when they bought food and drinks companies.
Properly caring for the skin with a moisturizing cream may lower inflammation levels and potentially prevent age-related diseases, according to a new clinical pilot study.
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, is committed to tackling the public health effects of gender inequality and helping to improve cervical cancer screening in Kenya.
The team behind a K Scholar Team Science Award designed a pilot study to shine light on fertility after liver transplant and the subsequent need for improved family planning counseling.
After a heart attack, the heart tissue is often irreparably damaged. According to UCSF study, the issue may date back to our earliest mammalian ancestors.
UCSF researchers developed a strategy for targeting a key molecule implicated in Parkinson’s disease, opening up a potential new treatment strategy for the currently incurable movement disorder.
Ethnographer Stacy Torres, PhD, is shedding a unique light on how we think about social ties and social relationships among older people.
UCSF lab found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is essential for cytonemes to mediate cell-to-cell communication between non-neural cells.
It was the 12th year in a row that UCSF claimed the top spot among public institutions, and the eighth straight year in which the University ranked second overall among institutions nationwide.
More than a thousand projects across the University received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling more than $647.8 million.
Researchers at UCSF say Google Translate is trustworthy when translating written medical advice, but there are some caveats.
UCSF researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring the integrity of clinical trials data with blockchain.