The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in ...

Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 annual stipend for two years to support their work at the crossroads of ...

A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.

Award-winning UCSF mentors Judith Hellman and Tor Neilands share their keys to success: deep commitment, individualized ...

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Chaz Langelier and team discover a partial explanation for why lupus gets better as patients age. It's because inflammation-related genes get muffled - the opposite of what usually happens in healthy ...

This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a day in their work life. Here we meet Isaac Conway-Stenzel, an ETS senior ...

A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the ...

Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in the brain during Alzheimer’s, potentially slowing or even reversing its ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in their ability to walk can be dramatic. “Parkinson’s gait,” as it is often called, can include changes in step length and asymmetry between legs. This ...

Bariatric surgeon Jonathan Carter discusses the pros and cons of surgery compared with GLP-1 drugs. For those with severe obesity, few see long-term benefits in diet and exercise programs, and could ...