Diagnostic Errors Are Common in Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults
A study of seriously ill patients from academic medical centers across the country has found that nearly a quarter had a delayed or missed diagnosis.

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Give to UCSFA study of seriously ill patients from academic medical centers across the country has found that nearly a quarter had a delayed or missed diagnosis.
Many physicians are unfamiliar with how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulates new drugs and medical devices, and they may be under the impression that the data supporting these approvals
UCSF does not have an official mascot, but you’re bound to run into at least a few that agree the University’s “unofficial” mascot is a bear.
Quality of sleep, not quantity, may play a part in the development of dementia decades before symptoms start.
UC San Francisco’s Thomas G. Martin, MD, a leading expert in blood cancers, has received a grant of nearly $4.6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to produce a CAR T
A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection.
C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on Jan
The new JN.1 COVID-19 variant is now estimated to make up about 20% of cases in the United States. Three UCSF experts offer advice on vaccines, masking, and other ways to protect yourself.
This award-winning podcast series draws on the personal stories of more than 200 health care workers to explore how shame manifests in medicine. UCSF hospitalist and resident alum Emily Silverman, MD – who calls shame “the elephant in the room” – hosts the series, which is a collaboration between her Nocturnists podcast and the University of Exeter’s Shame in Medicine project.
“You are here because you are a genius in every right,” says Sydney Williams in this video about the graduate student organization BE-STEM (Black Excellence in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and the exceptional leadership of Williams, Jaysón Davidson, and Christina Stephens. Find it on UCSF’s YouTube channel.
The Washington Post calls this novel “a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic.” Written by Daniel Mason, MD ’04, it’s the tale of a house in the New England woods, told through the lives of its inhabitants across the centuries.
Amber Bell, MS ’19, CNM, is helping UCSF “do the hard work of re-diversifying the midwifery profession.”
The saying “Todo tiene solución, menos la muerte” (“Everything has a solution, except death”) was instilled in every fiber of my being by my courageous parents.
Ryan Hernandez, PhD, is helping propel a new era for science at UCSF by championing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A world of science is examining the centerpiece of our respiratory system.
Get the real story instead of social media’s oral health hype.
A grief facilitator and UCSF chaplain shares some advice on processing loss.
Could AI make nurses’ jobs – and our health care – better? Kay Burke, MBA, RN, who helps UCSF Health improve its digital tools, weighs in.
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
UCSF’s industry archives expose the marketing tactics that fueled the opioid epidemic.
How a suite of advanced 3D technologies is ushering in surgery’s most sophisticated era yet.
What a tiny grassroots program in the Tenderloin is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
The UCSF Department of General Internal Medicine’s food pharmacy gives out bags of fresh produce and a protein item twice a month and offers a cooking class and hot meals once a month for patients who experience food insecurity.
Eric J. Small, MD, UCSF professor of Medicine and Urology Credit: UCSF The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has elected Eric J. Small, MD, FASCO, to serve as its president for the term
A new collaborative approach has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 autism spectrum disorder genes may lead to serious developmental problems. The technique involves looking beyond genes and their mutations, to the proteins they code for.