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Modern Trial of Ancient Drug Will Assess Whether Lowering Inflammation Early On Staves Off Most Serious Symptoms, Lowers Hospitalization By Nicholas Weiler colchicine-pills-istock.jpg UC San Francisco is recruiting newly diagnosed COVID-19...

Departments Can Send Samples for Analysis to UCSF Lab Supported by CZ Biohub, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative By Pete Farley pcr-test-samples-prepared.jpg UC San Francisco scientists are offering free sample analysis and test results,...

Noninvasive Test More Than 95 Percent Accurate, UCSF Researchers Say By Scott Maier A simple urine test can diagnose and predict acute rejection in kidney transplants, leading to an opportunity for earlier detection and treatment,...

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...