In an article appearing June 23 in the cardiology journal Circulation, the UCSF group reports on the successful treatment of a patient with sudden and severe (acute fulminant) myocarditis using an ...

Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San ...

Scientists found a way to identify and possibly treat a mysterious type of bladder cancer that affects up to 1 in 4 cases.

UC San Francisco’s ties to AIDS Walk San Francisco go back decades.. But the funds raised at each event, including this year’s walk, will advance critical HIV research, care, and programming at the ...

A study showed that daily "micro-acts" promote wellbeing and health. These include acts of kindness, self-reflection, gratitude, positive reframing, and experiencing awe.

In one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its kind, a research team led at UC San Francisco has identified the regions of the country where dementia occurs most often among veterans..

Wearable tech has to get easier for patients: Finding ways to, for instance, use a smartphone one day to take your blood pressure through your camera phone or, in the future, check your heart rate via ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

The U.S. saw more than 20,000 mpox cases and nearly six dozen deaths during the 2022 global mpox outbreak. San Francisco was hard hit. Today, mpox remains an ongoing public health emergency, according ...

In the study, researchers wanted to know what allowed cells to survive in one place instead of the other. To do this, they analyzed data from MetMap, a project at the Broad Institute, an independent ...

Many experts believe that social isolation is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study found that the disease ...