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UCSF Study Shows ‘Health Shock’ May Upend Living Situation in Older Adults without Assistance By Suzanne Leigh Research shows that many seniors living alone prefer to recover from acute illness in their own homes, rather than in long-term...

Formula Relies on Biological Belief About Racial Differences By Suzanne Leigh Using race-based equations to evaluate lung disease – a practice promoted in the 2019 guidelines of the American Thoracic Society – may mean that severe lung...

Small UCSF Study Indicates Vaccine Safety for Pregnant and Lactating Women By Elizabeth Fernandez Messenger RNA vaccines against COVID-19 were not detected in human milk, according to a small study by UC San Francisco, providing early...

We are thrilled to announce that Nerys Benfield, MD, MPH has accepted the position as UCSF Chief Medical Officer for Women’s Health and Vice Chair for Quality and Safety in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive...

An all-hands-on-deck research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone. By Mara Grunbaum In early April 2020, a few weeks after San Francisco officials issued...

Dermatologist Dr. Jenna Lester treats her patient Geoffry Blair Hutto in the UCSF Primary Care clinic. Barbara Ries Many skin conditions, from rashes to Lyme disease to various cancers , manifest differently on dark skin. Yet medical...

$10M State Budget Proposal Would Enable Digital Assessment in California Schools By Jess Berthold Marilu Gorno Tempini, MD, PhD, co-director of the UCSF Dyslexia Center. Image by Maurice Ramirez A UC San Francisco-developed tool to detect...