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‘They Are Really Afraid’: Fears About COVID-19 Are Complicating Care for Patients With Sickle Cell
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Study Finds Permanent Supportive Housing is Effective for Highest Risk Chronically Homeless People
“The bottom line is that even really high-risk folks can be housed,” said Margot Kushel, MD.
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Maternal Stress During Pregnancy Linked to Infant Illness
Greater maternal stress during pregnancy is linked with significant increases in the number and variety of infant illness during the first year of life, independent of the level of stress after birth.
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Do Masks Provide a Just-Right Dose of Coronavirus?
Infectious diseases expert Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, explores her hypothesis that one of the benefits of masks may be that they provide exposure to enough coronavirus to build immunity but not enough to cause illness.
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UCSF’s Covidseeker to Track the Coronavirus with Cellphone Data
Movement timelines from cellphone data can help people who have just received a positive test result recall where they have been and who they came into contact with when they were most infectious.
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Why COVID-19 Means You Need a Flu Shot This Year
Health experts are warning that the addition of another respiratory illness on top of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic could overburden the health care system, strain testing capacity, and increase the risk of catching both diseases at once.
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Latinos Make Up 71% of Coronavirus Cases in Largely White Marin County. Will New Equity Efforts Help?
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What's The Best Way to Store Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
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A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’?
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First ‘Plug and Play’ Brain Prosthesis Demonstrated in Paralyzed Person
The achievement of “plug and play” performance demonstrates the value of so-called ECoG electrode arrays for BCI applications.
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How to Safely Host a Small Gathering During Coronavirus
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UCSF Launching ‘Mass Testing’ Effort in Oakland’s Fruitvale District
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Mapping Genetic Diversity of Lung Tumors Over Time May Lead to More Effective Therapies
Researchers have figured out how to assemble genetic profiles of individual lung cancer cells obtained from patients at different times during the course of their treatment.
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Danica Fujimori Receives $1.25M Bowes Biomedical Investigator Award
The award provides unrestricted funding of $1.25 million over five years to support Fujimori’s teaching and leadership roles and advance her quest to understand life’s fundamental chemistry.
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COVID-19 Testing at Transit Hub Finds Ongoing High Transmission in Latinx Essential Workers
New testing data from the 24th Street BART plaza shows continued unmet demand for access to testing.
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To Treat Frontotemporal Dementia, Treat the Brain’s Immune Cells
Though FTD is not as well known as Alzheimer’s disease, it’s the second most common cause of dementia in people under 65, and there’s currently no treatment.
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UCSF Doctor Hopes Death of Actor Chadwick Boseman Will Raise Awareness as More Young People Diagnosed With Colon Cancer
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UCSF Health Named LGBTQ Health Care Equality Leader for 2020
UCSF Health has been named a 2020 “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
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Stem Cell Trial Tests Treatment for Often-Fatal COVID-19 Lung Damage
Researchers are studying whether cells drawn from deep inside our bones may hold hope for the sickest of COVID-19 patients who have severe lung injury called acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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Bay Area Surgeon Who Save Children as Profession Also Serves on Front Line of California Wildfires
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Managing Anxiety in the Age of Everything
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Immune Cells in Spinal Fluid of Multiple Sclerosis Patients Identified as Likely Disease Drivers
New UCSF research sheds light on how immune system B cells that infiltrate the central nervous system may drive multiple sclerosis.
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‘Small Events Add Up to a Lot’: Limited Gathering Quietly Emerge as Source of Coronavirus Infections
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Dermatology Has a Problem With Skin Color
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Flu Shot Study Offers Window Into Coronavirus Vaccine Uptake in U.S.
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COVID-19 Vaccines Are Moving Fast, But Will Americans Agree to Get Them?
Only one in three U.S. adults received the flu vaccine in 2018, a number that has critical implications for the impending flu season, which threatens to overwhelm medical resources and lead to tens of thousands of deaths at a time when Americans are still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In Tiny Llama Antibodies, Researchers See Hope for a Coronavirus Treatment
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Female Chromosomes Offer Resilience to Alzheimer’s
UCSF scientists now have evidence from research that women with Alzheimer’s live longer than men with the disease because they have genetic protection from the ravages of the disease.
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$5.1M Grant Will Help Develop COVID-19 Prediction Algorithm for Wearables
UCSF Osher Center faculty member Ashley Mason, PhD, has received a $5.1M award to expand TemPredict, a study she directs in collaboration with Rick Hecht, MD, and Benjamin Smarr, PhD.
