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Milenko Martinovich hannah_soc.jpg Hannah Jang The routine has become second nature to Hannah Jang: Clean hands, don the gown, put on the mask, then the goggles — remember to clean your hands again — tie the gown, and lastly, put on the...

From the ski slopes of Idaho to the ICU, a pharmacist’s encounter with the health care system as a COVID-19 patient By Marilyn Stebbins rs17241_20150319_1_0010.jpg Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD (Photo credit: Elizabeth Fall) As we absorb the...

Donation from Heising-Simons Foundation Supports Testing, Patient Care and Worker Safety at Leading Public Hospital To help combat the public health crisis presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Heising-Simons Foundation has made a $2...

March 25, 2020 | By Lesley Snyder match-day-hero-700x397.jpg A Pioneering Class During the first Match Day celebration of its kind, the UCSF School of Medicine class of 2020 logged onto their computers the morning of Friday, March 20 to be...

By Katherine Conrad ucsf-covid19-acu-structures.jpg UCSF Health nurses Stessi Cattrell (left) and Lisa Mogannam on March 7 work to set up one of the Accelerated Care Unit at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights location. Photo by Noah Berger Thousands...

Specific health measures – such as function, cognition and psychological well-being – should be incorporated into the assessment of whether major surgery is suitable for older adults, especially if the mortality risk after surgery...

By Grant Burningham and Susan Levings lynda-frassetto-portrait.jpg Lynda Frassetto, MD, is a UCSF emeritus faculty member, physician trained in nephrology, and clinical researcher. Over her 30-year career she has both cared for kidney...

By Nicholas Weiler lea-grinberg-and-josh-kornbluth-lab.jpg Lea Grinberg (right), MD, PhD. Memory loss is the most common symptom of Alzheimer’s disease, but many patients also experience problems with language, spatial awareness, and other...

550_women_web.jpg Regardless of how long you’ve worked at UC, you’ve probably noted that women hold respected leadership positions throughout the university and that there are programs in place to champion their knowledge, insight and...

mother-and-child.jpg New mothers who are entitled to paid maternity leave beyond a few weeks’ duration are more likely to have better mental and physical health. In turn, their offspring have a slightly reduced likelihood of infant death...