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The Alumni Association of UC San Francisco (AAUCSF) has named the UCSF Alumni Achievement Awards winners for 2024. These awards honor alumni across UCSF’s four schools – Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy – and the Graduate Division…

Some 13% of older adults are diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to a study by UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Health Care System. These injuries are typically caused by falls from ground level.…

Guled Abdi didn’t know that becoming a physician was an option for him. No one close to his immigrant family was a physician, and he didn’t see any real-life role models for black physicians from low socioeconomic backgrounds. But when he…

Graduating from UC San Francisco is the end of one rewarding journey and the start of another. For the new alumni recently honored at UCSF Diversity Graduation, it not only signals the beginning of a career in health care but also an…

Many modern day Native Americans in the U.S. have multiple roots, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous. That lived experience often leaves them looking for a way to strengthen or even rebuild a connection with that Indigenous lineage…

UC San Francisco researchers have received $12.45 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to lead the first long-term study of cancer among Asian Americans, a highly diverse yet understudied group. Despite a growing incidence of…

Now that smoking has replaced injecting as the most common way to consume fentanyl, UC San Francisco researchers have uncovered an increased risk of fatal overdose from the residue that accumulates in smoking equipment. The…

Scientists have known for years that a lattice of blood vessels nourishes cells in the retina that allow us to see – but it’s been a mystery how the intricate structure is created. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have found a…

Dispensing abortion pills through the mail works as well as requiring patients to get them in person from a clinic or doctor’s office, according to new research from UC San Francisco, which comes as the Supreme Court is considering whether…

Men with prostate cancer could significantly reduce the chances of the disease worsening by eating more fruits, vegetables, nuts and olive oil, according to new research by UC San Francisco. A study of more than 2,000 men with…