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New Gift Fuels Precision Medicine Approaches to Diabetes
A generous gift of $1 million from an anonymous donor recently created the Breakthrough Initiative in Type 1 Diabetes Precision Medicine and Discovery.
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UCSF Expands Courses on How to Be an Anti-Racist Scientist or Clinician
UCSF schools have created new courses and expanded existing curriculum that address issues of structural racism in science and health care. They take an explicitly anti-racist approach, which advocates for interventions against racism instead of merely being not racist.
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COVID-19 Has a Prolonged Effect for Many During Pregnancy
In the largest study to date of COVID-19 among non-hospitalized pregnant women, researchers analyzed the clinical course and outcomes of 594 women who tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus during pregnancy.
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Remote Learning, Face Masks – Health Sciences Education Adapts During COVID-19
As the thousands of students head back to UCSF this fall, educators across campus have had to balance innovative distance learning opportunities with safely bringing learners back together for experiences that must take place in simulation labs, clinical settings, research labs, and more.
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Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer May Be Gauged by Accumulated DNA Damage
Risk for melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer, can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to a UCSF scientist.
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3 UCSF Researchers Win NIH New Innovator Awards
The UCSF researchers — whose work spans investigations into autism spectrum disorder (ASD), oncology, and mitochondrial disease — were among 85 awardees for the grants that the NIH says “will fund highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical or behavioral research proposed by extraordinarily creative scientists.”
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Why Has The White House Not Conducted Contact Tracing?
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Face Masks: What the Data Say
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Bioartificial Kidney Project Receives $1M Grant to Advance Its Work
The John and Marcia Goldman Foundation, a private family foundation based in San Francisco, recently granted The Kidney Project $1 million to advance its bioartificial kidney.
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Parents Less Aware When Their Kids Vape Than When They Smoke
Most parents know or suspect when their child smokes, but they are much more likely to be in the dark if the child vapes or uses other tobacco products, according to a large national study by researchers at UCSF.
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Trump's COVID-19 Steroid Treatment Breaks From Norm, Doctors Say
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Expanded Newborn Screening Could Save Premature Infants’ Lives
Expanding routine newborn screening to include a metabolic vulnerability profile could lead to earlier detection of life-threatening complications in babies born preterm, according to a study by UC San Francisco researchers.
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Cancer Immunotherapy ‘Uniquely Suppressed’ by Liver Tumors
Though cancer immunotherapy has become a promising standard-of-care treatment – and in some cases, perhaps a cure – for a wide variety of different cancers, it doesn’t work for everyone, and researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding why.
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UCSF Researchers Test New COVID-19 Drug
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An ‘Awe Walk’ Might Do Wonders for Your Well-Being
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UCSF Launches Pilot of Privacy-Preserving Smartphone Tool to Help Slow Spread of COVID-19
Students, faculty and staff at UCSF will be invited to activate COVID Notify on their smartphones.
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The Open Hand: A Conversation with the Descendants of Biddy Mason
UCSF talked with Cheryl and Robynn Cox, who are sixth-generation descendants of Biddy Mason, about the legacy of their great-great-great-great grandmother.
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A Potential Downside of Intermittent Fasting
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Time-Restricted Eating Doesn’t Work for Weight Loss
The study found no significant difference between the two groups in total weight loss or in other health markers.
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Two Big Reasons S.F. Has the Lowest COVID Death Rate Among Major U.S. Cities
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Can You Tell If It’s the Flu or COVID-19? Doctors Say It’s Not So Clear
With influenza, COVID-19, and the usual cold-weather respiratory infections in circulation this winter, experts say it’s bound to be a confusing season for people to sort out what to do when they fall ill.
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UCSF Partners With Community Groups to Bring COVID-19 Testing to Oakland
In a continuing effort to serve communities that are at high risk of getting COVID-19, UCSF is partnering with Oakland-based community groups to sponsor two days of free mass testing.
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Health Care Inequality Could Deepen With Precision Oncology
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Video Offers Roadmap to Facilitate Family Conferences When Patient Prognosis is Poor
A new video offers a roadmap for structured meetings between clinicians and family members when a patient has a serious or life-threatening condition.
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Customizable Synthetic Antibiotic Outmaneuvers Resistant Bacteria
Researchers at UCSF are tackling antibiotic resistance using a different approach: redesigning existing antibiotic molecules to evade a bacterium’s resistance mechanisms
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Most Infants Are Well Even When Moms are Infected by COVID-19
Infants born to women with COVID-19 showed few adverse outcomes, according to the first report in the country of infant outcomes through eight weeks of age.
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Lift Your Head and Lower Your Arms — You Might Just Feel Better
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‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being
Older adults who took weekly 15-minute “awe walks” for eight weeks reported increased positive emotions and less distress in their daily lives.
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Hinshaw Receives National Academy of Medicine’s Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health
Hinshaw’s work spans developmental psychopathology, clinical interventions with children and adolescents, and program development related to reducing the pervasive stigmatization of mental illness.
