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Emergency Staff Report Substantial Anxiety, Burnout and PTSD By Elizabeth Fernandez Photo by Susan Merrell During the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency department doctors, nurses and other frontline staff experienced...

People of Color Face Disproportionate Infection Risk While Pregnant By Elizabeth Fernandez Individuals who contract COVID-19 while pregnant face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any preterm birth, according to a...

Unnecessary Care May Come at a Cost, But Researchers Say Extra Caution is Warranted in Youngest Babies By Suzanne Leigh Suppose your newborn develops a fever: Should your doctor just order a urine test to check for a bladder infection, one...

But UCSF-Washington University Study Finds Some Treatments Inhibit Effects Much More Than Others By Suzanne Leigh Photo by Barbara Ries Most patients on immunosuppressive drugs for chronic inflammatory conditions, like rheumatoid arthritis...

UCSF Researchers Recommend Increased Prenatal Surveillance for Patients With Sepsis and Other Serious Infections By Elizabeth Fernandez Individuals who are hospitalized during pregnancy due to sepsis have higher odds of complications...

Report Calls Upon Employers, Policymakers to Develop Career Paths for New Graduates and Engage Late-Career RNs By Rebecca Wolfson A nurse walks into a temporary emergency department structure at the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at...

By Elizabeth Fernandez An increasing percentage of emergency visits and hospitalizations in the United States before the pandemic involved patients with alcohol and other substance use disorders, according to a study by UC San Francisco...

Research Shows the Long-term Physical, Mental and Economic Harm of Abortion Denial on Women and Their Families  By Laura Kurtzman More than 100 social science experts filed an amicus brief led by experts at UC San Francisco and the...

Newly Vaccinated People Become Ambassadors to Overcome Hesitancy of Friends and Family By Laura Kurtzman Susan Dang of BayPLS, contracted by UCSF, prepares a dose of the Moderna vaccine during Unidos En Salud vaccination event in January...

UCSF Researchers Discover New Role for Erα as an RNA-Binding Protein By Laura Kurtzman Three-dimensional culture of human breast cancer cells, with DNA stained blue and a protein in the cell surface membrane stained green. Image by NIH...