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Vision, Hearing, Touch, Olfaction Linked to Cognition, UCSF Study Shows By Suzanne Leigh Seniors who can identify smells like roses, turpentine, paint-thinner and lemons, and have retained their senses of hearing, vision and touch, may...

By Nina Bai Ellen Goldstein, MA, CO-OP Ellen Goldstein , MA, CO-OP, has been named the new director of UC San Francisco’s Office of the Ombuds. She will replace Maureen Brodie, MA, CO-OP, who is retiring. “Ellen’s extensive training and...

‘Paradigm II’ Interactively Illustrates the Complex, Dynamic Relationships Between Causes By Elizabeth Fernandez A new model of the causes of breast cancer, created by a team led by researchers at UC San Francisco, Genentech and Stanford...

The University of California Board of Regents announced today (July 7) the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system of 10 campuses, five medical centers, three nationally affiliated labs,...

By Nicholas Weiler Zena Werb, PhD Colleagues are mourning the passing of Zena Werb, PhD, a giant in the field of cancer biology whose four decades of research at UC San Francisco informed the rise of immunotherapy and other modern...

Q&A with Margot Kushel, national expert on homelessness By Silver Lumsdaine For nearly 25 years, Margot Kushel, MD , has cared for people who are homeless. She realized early on that the most important thing for her patients’ health...

By Elizabeth Daube Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality and racism. Both issues have roots in the same problem...

We were wrong. By Ariel Bleicher and Katherine Conrad In late January, when hospitals in the United States confirmed the presence of the novel coronavirus, health workers knew to watch for precisely three symptoms: fever, cough, and...

By Scott Maier sad-teen.jpg sad-teen.jpg The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) communities have experienced increased anxiety and depression since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who haven’t...

The University of California Board of Regents today (June 15) unanimously endorsed Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5 (ACA 5) as well as the repeal of Proposition 209, which banned the consideration of race and gender in admissions...