The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in ...

Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 ...

A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.

Award-winning UCSF mentors Judith Hellman and Tor Neilands share their keys to success: deep commitment, individualized ...

Chaz Langelier and team discover a partial explanation for why lupus gets better as patients age. It's because inflammation-related genes get muffled - the opposite of what usually happens in healthy ...

A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the ...

Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its ...

Researchers found that as preteens used more social media, their depressive symptoms increased. Yet the reverse wasn’t true — a rise in depressive symptoms didn’t predict a later increase in social ...

Artificial intelligence has revolutionized medical imaging. Here are four ways that AI is changing medicine in pictures - and the UCSF minds behind them.

Defined as the product of mass and velocity, “momentum” is derived from physics. It also describes UC San Francisco’s journey in the past decade under Chancellor Sam Hawgood’s leadership.

Oral health has long been siloed from the rest of a person's health. But increasingly, researchers and clinicians, including those at UCSF, are finding ties between a person's oral health and their ...