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By Melinda Krigel Globally, breast cancer is the leading cancer among women. Yet, determining who will develop breast cancer is still a major challenge for the medical community. A new tool, developed by UC San Francisco’s Karla...

WISDOM Study Expands to Women as Young as 30 A novel UC San Francisco study that aims to transform breast cancer screening is expanding to reach women as young as 30, with the intention of including thousands of women who could be at...

By Laura Kurtzman Three UC San Francisco researchers have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the influential...

By Jess Berthold Does stress during pregnancy impact children’s cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new UC San Francisco study published Dec. 2 in Psychological Medicine . UCSF researchers followed 110 white...

UCSF Study One of First to Show Long-Term, Beneficial Effects for BIPOC Women By Jess Berthold A low-cost, prenatal intervention benefits mothers’ mental health up to eight years later, a new UC San Francisco study finds. In the study, one...

Toddler Thrives with Same Disease That Ended Siblings’ Lives By Jess Berthold When Zahid and Sobia Bashir discovered their fetus had the same genetic disease that took the lives of two of their young children, they didn’t hesitate to sign...

Supporting Victims of Violence Leads to Safer Communities, Says Justice Reform Champion By Suzanne Leigh Ashley Biden, MSW, attended a site visit to UCSF Trauma Recovery Center in San Francisco. The visit included a tour of the facility,...

By Andrew Schwartz | Photography by Elisabeth Fall Nancy Oros Tinoco, left, stands with her uncle, Adolfo Gomez, in a Salinas farm field. Oros Tinoco, who was raised in a family of farmworkers and spent her teen summers working in the...

By Robin Marks Three UC San Francisco faculty members are among the 100 new national members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Membership in the NAM...

Findings Open Door to Precision Therapeutics for Neonatal Hemorrhage By Jess Berthold With a new study, UC San Francisco researchers are the first to show how blood vessel cells develop in the prenatal human brain, paving the way to fully...