UCSF

It is clear the next year will be a pivotal one for UCSF’s place in the growth and application of artificial intelligence in health care. Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, spent a significant portion of his 2023 State of the University…

For San Francisco patient Macheryl Franklin, the food pharmacy at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion has been nothing short of “a lifesaver.” “It’s wonderful to have fresh fruits and vegetables; they are too expensive at the store,” said…

While sometimes afraid to do so, Chase Anderson, MD, speaks his mind anyway – and with good reason. The assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry in the UCSF School of Medicine lives with a history of depression and anxiety,…

Every day, nearly 5 million children in the U.S. wake up not knowing whether they’ll make it through the school day, soccer practice or a sleepover with friends without suffering from debilitating coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath.…

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is the first hospital in the West to administer a newly approved gene therapy to treat beta thalassemia, a rare, genetic blood disorder that causes severe anemia, with a need for lifelong blood…

UCSF has developed its first ever organization-wide engagement goal following the results of the 2023 Staff Engagement Survey. The goal – set by the Chancellor’s Cabinet – supports engagement action planning across UCSF and UCSF Health.…

The UCSF professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology said as much just minutes after receiving the 2023 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award at the Mission Bay campus last month, surrounded by a crowd of UCSF learners, colleagues…

Pride Hall, UC San Francisco’s new research and academic building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), celebrates the 150-year partnership of the two medical institutions and provides scientists and…

Malnutrition affects babies much earlier than thought, and more nutritional support is needed for mothers-to-be and their newborns to prevent disease, impaired cognition and death, according to new findings by researchers at UC San…

A UCSF telecare program that improves outcomes for patients with dementia and lightens the load for unpaid caregivers also has the surprising bonus effect of cutting Medicare costs, according to UC San Francisco research. In the study,…